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Brace yourselves, readers! A company whose whole business plan depends on consoles going away says that one of the big platform holders might be getting out of the hardware business altogether. More »
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MCV is reporting that both the next Xbox console from Microsoft and Sony's next PlayStation home console will both make their debuts at this year's E3. More »
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While Sony hasn't yet officially announced the PS4, no doubt it's coming. The PlayStation 3 will get a successor. According to a "trusted source", work has started on PlayStation 4 games. More »
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Electronic Arts, like Sony and Microsoft, seem perfectly content to ride out the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 for as long as possible, downplaying the need for a next generation of consoles any time soon. "Why would you even need one?," wonders EA's Frank Gibeau. More »
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Next year, Nintendo is releasing a new home console, the Wii U. Taiwanese component makers tell tech site DigiTimes that Sony is readying a new home console for 2012. But that's not the interesting part. More »
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We'll have plenty of time to scrimp, save and perhaps land a second job to afford the next generation of video game consoles. Avalanche Studios, creators of Just Cause and the forthcoming Renegade Ops, believe 2014 is when we'll get them. More »
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Late last week, Sony chief financial officer Masaru Kato said, "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." More »
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Asked to explain increased research and development costs, a Sony senior executive told investors that work PlayStation 3 successor is "already under way." More »
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My dork tendencies run a little...stranger than most. While I enjoy looking at things like mock-ups of new control pads, for example, I prefer looking at a mock-up of the packaging for said controller. More »
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In an interview with MCVUK, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot lamented the lack of new development platforms, going so far as to blame the lack of new home consoles for the entire industry's fiscal shortcomings. In the interview, Guillemot claims that Ubisoft has developed fewer new IPs of late because there is no more room for new franchises on this generation of consoles: Sequels rule the roost, and Ubisoft has plenty of established series to work with until PS4, Xbox 3 and Wii 2. That said, Guillemot wishes that the consoles would get an update so that the developer can move forward. More »
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The PlayStation 3 came out in 2006. That doesn't matter, people want to know about the PlayStation 4. Thing is, Sony's still focusing on the PS3. Oh, and the NGP. More »
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THQ isn't ready for a new generation of consoles. Are gamers? That's the question commenter Jamaicanmecrazy ponders in today's installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku. More »
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Sony did win that HD format war, you know. More »
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While gamers across the world are finally getting their hands on the oft-delayed Gran Turismo 5, series creator Kazunori Yamauchi and his team are working on the inevitable follow-up. More »
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The Xbox 360 launched in 2005. The Wii and the PS3 hit in 2006. It's the middle of 2010. Shouldn't we be getting ready for new consoles? More »
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Earlier this week, a mysterious viral clip appeared online. It was followed by another equally mysterious clip. Sony denied the clips were theirs. So, alright then, who made them? More »
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A second video trumpeting the "PS4" also drops a half second hint that we may be seeing Modern Warfare 2 in 3D in the near future. More »
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A viral video apparently plugging some new sort of Playstation technology surfaced over the weekend. Is it for 3D gaming (likely) or the Playstation 4 (seriously doubt it)? More »
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Just because Sony said that the PS3 would have a ten year life span, that doesn't mean the company isn't apparently moving forward with the PlayStation 4. More »
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Someone forgot to tell acclaimed designer Tai Chiem that Sony bagged the Spidey typeface with the PS3 Slim. But the rest of this concept - that means This Is Not Real - is super-futuristic cool. Wait, where's the $24 kickstand? More »
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While Sony's been touting the PS3's ten year life-span, Hiroshige Goto from Japanese site PC Watch is already talking PLAYSTATION 4. According to Goto, Sony is apparently moving forward with the PS4 and considering using the Cell Broadband Engine that powers the PS3 as the next console's architectural base. Sony, Goto points out, has invested heavily in the Cell so that it can be updated with new iterations and used for a long period of time — a point that does give strength to the rumor he floats. What's more, using an upgraded Cell in the PS4 would obviously lower the cost of production with a smaller chip, too. That right there could be a key factor in why Sony could very well be investigating this possibility. What's more, it seems more in line with what Nintendo has successfully done with the GameCube and the Wii. Goto goes on to theorize if the next PlayStation will have 32 cores (compared to the current 8), but Goto doesn't have any concrete information about Sony's plans. While the original Xbox had trouble trailing the PS2 (and all the PS2 developer kits that were sent out), Sony has been playing catch up against the Xbox 360. So, for example, if Sony wants to get the PS4 out in 2011 before the next Xbox, it will need a shortcut because actual chip development, Goto writes, takes 3 or 4 years. PLAYSTATION 4は拡張版Cell搭載へ向かう [PC Watch] More »
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Today is special. You get not only one, but two Chocolate Reins. That's right, Mark Rein is back! This time, he's going on and on about the Unreal Engine 4. Of course, Epic's current Unreal Engine 3 powers tons of big time games. So when's the next engine coming out? Probably when the PS4, the Xbox 720 and the Nintendo Whatever hit. Says Rein: More »
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Is it me or does it seem like every Blizzard-related interview has either A). Somebody asking with World of Warcraft will hit consoles. B). Somebody saying that WoW won't hit consoles. C). Both. More »
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Now that you've parted with large amounts of cash for a console that doesn't quite have any killer games yet, let's talk PS4. UK developer Evolution Studios boss Martin Kenwright isn't jut thinking about his company's upcoming release, Motorstorm, but TEH FUTURE. Says Kenwright: More »
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You heard about that string of promotions at Sony Computer Entertainment earlier? (If not, Ken Kutaragi is now Chairman and Group CEO and Kaz Hirai is now President and Group COO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., with the latter replacing Ken as president.) Is all that organizational reshuffling just a corporate love-in for a job well done, with new titles and responsibilities for everyone involved, or does it signal a major change at Sony? More »
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Listen to this: Sony exec says discs still have some gas left. Good! Because last we heard, company brass said we wouldn't be using them for our PS4s, but w/e. Sony UK's Ray Maguire says there are "many" years left for the format as games get bigger in size. Maguire enlightens: More »
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