The next-gen rumours may continue to roll by on a twice-daily basis, but it’s clear that Sony and Microsoft are still keeping their cards very close to their chests. Well, the cards that haven’t been leaked, speculated on and wrangled from the cold dead hands of some NDA-flaunting developer, that is.
Regardless, it looks like Sony aren’t thinking about talking about the PS4 yet. Not until Microsoft do, it seems, at least.
“Why go first, when your competitors can look at your specifications and come up with something better?” said SCE boss Kaz Hirai in today’s The Times newspaper. That’s clearly a direct nod to Microsoft (being that Nintendo have already played their slightly tired looking cards) and suggests that he’s ready to go, but holding back.
Poised like a slightly predictable two-way Mexican standoff, the next-gen war might be kicking off right around the corner but today, right now, it’s more a case of two companies still eyeing up the other.
Who will strike first? Microsoft, clearly. Kaz says so.
Source: IGN quoting The Times
Death_In_Flamez
Perhaps the next gen will never arrive!!!!! 0_0
E8_BALL_
If it was my product, i’d want to see my competitors’ offering, before I even started the final production phase. Leave soom room for last min tweaks &or add-ons
The Von Braun
Hold on Sony, you waited until Sega had annouced the Dreamcast Specs before going all out to destroy it on paper (PS2 75 Million polys per sec claim, which did’nt relate to in-game figures).Disclaimer, i still own an use both my DC+PS2 on regular basis :-).
Plus you used the Do Not Underestimate the Power Of Playstation angle when the N64 was technically better than the PS, the PS2 was the ‘weakest’ out of the PS2/GC+Xbox, yet it did it no harm, sales wise, so please, lets not have another PS3 VS 360 pissing contest of which has more computing power.
The ‘raw’ processing power just 1 part of a much bigger picture:how about ease of use, way Ram is allocated etc etc.
What ever you do Sony, give the hardware enough Ram to get the best from it and please, no more ‘knife to a gunfight’ type scenario’s-IF your going to include things like a web browser, how about they work this time? (amount of times my PS3 froze when using the browser, well, i lost count).
Starman
ahh yes, the ps3 browser. Can’t believe it was never made less prone to crashing.
skibadee
MS Specs have just leaked.
The Lone Steven
It would be a smart and bloody risky move for Sony to wait untill MS show us what the 720 is capable of as they can make some adjustments to the PS4 at this point but if they wait too long, they will give MS an advantage and it would be a repeat of the PS3’s early life.
I believe Sony can afford to wait due to the PS3 still having a lot of life left in it whereas MS will have to get the 720 out within the next year or so as the 360 is recieving barely any support from them or at least that what it seems like. :O In fact, even their marketing for it has gone down. Either way, it looks like we will see both companies waiting untill one gives in or Apple enters the market with an Iphone on steroids or a powerful console that is released by Valve.
I am hoping the PS4 and the 720 won’t be another case of “our console is more powerful then yours” as that means feck all if the games are naff and the consumer doesn’t support it.
KeRaSh
I thought Kaz was smarter than this. Haven’t they learned anything from the launch of this gen? While Sony still has the support to sustain the PS3 for another year, they CANNOT give MS the advantage of an earlier launch again. By the time they release their consoles, Nintendo will have a respectable line up of Wii U games and maybe even a price drop to compete with Sony and MS.
It really seems like Kaz is afraid that MS might have a hidden ace up their sleeve that Sony didn’t anticipate and if that’s the case, he wants to go back to the drawing board and shoehorn that feature in before Sony announces anything.
Well, I guess we can forget that possible May or E3 announcement from Sony. I have to say I’m kind of disappointed by that.