Remember when everyone and his dog was shouting about “PS4” last week, just because Sony’s finance chief Masaru Kato uttered the words ‘Future Platform’?
We do, mainly because we thought, like one or two other sites, that he might have been referring to the NGP. Not quite as interesting a headline, but probably closer to the truth in the long run. Them’s the breaks.
So, why the post? Well, it appears a Sony spokesperson has, er, spoken on the matter, saying that the quote was “taken out of context” and actually referenced “their work on the NGP.”
Here’s what Kato said originally:
“For the home equipment the PS3 still has a product life, but this is a platform business, so for the future platform – when we’ll be introducing what product I cannot discuss that- but our development work is already under way, so the costs are incurred there.”
NGP? PSP2? Vita. Whatever – it’s not about the PS4. Apparently.
Whether or not this is just Sony trying to squash talk of a successor to the PS4 as the PS3 starts to get into its groove is anyone’s guess – Sony must be working on the PS4 in some form or another, but right now that quote’s all about the NGP.
Back to your coffees.
Awayze
Of course that statement was a slip of the mouth and so they said it was about the “NGP” so it won’t harm PS3 sales and people don’t hold off till the PS4 :/
Since when do Sony comment on “Rumours and Speculations”.
bunimomike
I’m still at a loss as to why this isn’t about the PSN. There’s nothing to say that it’s not about that. :-\