Sony says no to PlayStation 4 E3 Announcement

Sony says no to PlayStation 4 E3 announcement

Despite recent rumors, Sony says it will not be revealing a PlayStation 4 at E3 2012. According to Kaz Hirai, the company has no plans to talk about the next generation of consoles at this point. At a round table with reporters at CES, Hirai reiterated Andrew House's December comments that said there are no surprise announcements incoming.

Hirai believes that the PlayStation 3 has a ten year life-cycle, "and there's no reason to go away from that," said Hirai.

It looks like Sony is committed to the ten year life-cycle thing despite growing concern that by then, PC's and possible competitors will have flown by and widened the margin of visual fidelity and memory specifications. A ten year life cycle for the PS3 would put us with a PlayStation 4 sometime in 2016, but many analysts believe its a matter of which company jumps first. Whether it be Microsoft or Sony, an announcement by either will likely spur the other on to reveal as well.

By Bill Hess on January 10, 2012

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That Guy
oh man, michael pachter was right(half way).if the 720 isnt announced the myans prediction may actually happen O.o
- Dovahkiin
  Patcher better not be right.
  That guy is such an *ss
Roach
Well, that blows.
IHATETROLLS (WHO DOESN’T)
that should be a new troll face and hands seem to be a Vulcan salute
KLOWN PHACE
I’m still laughing at the photo they chose for the article. $THUG LIFE $ hahah
Cool dude
Nice close up.
njb
Well we know who is confident bout their current console.
I cant see the PS4 becoming a reality in a year or two
Underworld
I’m very happy with the ps3, but I really hope they do announce the ps4 and then release in 2013. I can’t wait longer and I think it would be a bad idea for Sony to.
I don’t really expect Sony to come out and say “yes we will announce the ps4 at E3″ That would be a bad idea and would spoil the surprise. So I still have hope they will announce it.
- Allen
  I still think it may be revealed at E3 too. Saying they would announce it at E3 at this time would be a bad idea though, we just got done with Christmas and no one wants to buy something and less than a month later find out that a new one is coming.
  Then again, we are still kind of far out. I do think 2013 release but not until holidays 2013, that would be basically 2014 anyways which is 8 years for PS3.
Cool dude
I remember NeoGeo being the longest ever lifespan of 14 years. Lol