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HALOOOOOOOO on 27 March 2009

ys i thnk thr wll be a ps4 bcuz im usng short wrds tht maks my post hrd t read. It's okay though, I've seen much much worse.

Translation: Duh, of course there will be.



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darthdevidem01 on 27 March 2009

Ofcourse there will be

people forget SONY won 2 generations and had 2 CONSOLES selling over 100 million

lol....any comparisons with SEGA/ATARI leaving are silly



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Nanaki on 27 March 2009

It will probably not be called PS4. Japanese people could have some problems with this name.

But yes, there will be new console from Sony.



Xxain on 27 March 2009
Nanaki said:
It will probably not be called PS4. Japanese people could have some problems with this name.

But yes, there will be new console from Sony.

How so??

Nanaki on 27 March 2009
Xxain said:
Nanaki said:
It will probably not be called PS4. Japanese people could have some problems with this name.

But yes, there will be new console from Sony.

 

How so??

Because word "Shi" has two meanings. One is "4", second is "Death". Nobody calls a console "Playstation Death".

(I don´t, that I know Japanese, only from watching anime. Please, someone with more knowledge, write more info about the matter).

 

 



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O-D-C on 27 March 2009

compete words please.



FOOD on 27 March 2009

Yes. There is a lot of money to be made in the video game industry. They'd be stupid to pull out because of the PS3. Besides, I love my PS3. Just because it's in last place doesn't mean it sucks.



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Euphoria14 on 27 March 2009

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Xxain on 27 March 2009
Nanaki said:
Xxain said:
Nanaki said:
It will probably not be called PS4. Japanese people could have some problems with this name.

But yes, there will be new console from Sony.

 

How so??

Because word "Shi" has two meanings. One is "4", second is "Death". Nobody calls a console "Playstation Death".

(I don´t, that I know Japanese, only from watching anime. Please, someone with more knowledge, write more info about the matter).

 

 


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Musouka on 27 March 2009
Nanaki said:
Xxain said:
Nanaki said:
It will probably not be called PS4. Japanese people could have some problems with this name.

But yes, there will be new console from Sony.

 

How so??

Because word "Shi" has two meanings. One is "4", second is "Death". Nobody calls a console "Playstation Death".

(I don´t, that I know Japanese, only from watching anime. Please, someone with more knowledge, write more info about the matter).

 

 

Yeah, that is correct. You see this applied in real life. For instance there were no Canon G4 or S4 IS cameras. They went from 3 directly to 5.

From Wikipedia:

Canon, based in Japan, omitted the number 4 from the range due to cultural superstition.

"The word "four" is read as "si" in Chinese Mandarin and "shi" in Japanese, a close homonym for the word for death in both languages.

Amateur Photographer magazine also supported this:

"the truth behind the leap from 3 to 5 is one based on cultural superstition — in Japan, the number 4 is considered unlucky. This is because the pronunciation of 4 — “shi” — is the same pronunciation as death. This is the reason why the EOS range jumps from the EOS 3 to EOS 5, and why the latest IXUS digital compacts bucks the trend of the IXUS v2 and IXUS v3 models by becoming the IXUS 400. Indeed, to find a Canon camera with a model number 4 you have to look back as far as the 1950s to the Canon IV."

Sony did that same with the Cyber Shot G & H series.

I also remeber reading somewhere that Narita Airport has no Gate 4.

However, given how famous the PS brand, who knows?



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