Sony Say Late PlayStation 4 Console Launch Would Be ‘Undesirable’

Sony Say Late PlayStation 4 Console Launch Would Be ‘Undesirable’

SOURCE: http://whatculture.com/gaming/sony-say-late-playstation-4-console-launch-would-be-undesirable.php

Sony have revealed that it�s essential they aren�t late with the launch of their next generation console �PlayStation 4?. As we have reported several times the Nintendo Wii U is due to launch in 2012 and there are rumours almost daily that Microsoft are getting ever closer to announcing their next Xbox console, possibly titled 720 or Xbox �Loop�.
Sony, who haven�t yet set a date on the PlayStation 4, will be well aware that the Xbox 360 beat out their console by a whole year to the market place last time out and they don�t want that to happen again.
PlayStation Europe boss Jim Ryan said at the Vita press event in London this week that;

�I think we would consider it undesirable to be significantly later than the competition� but that.. �There�s still a lot of unfinished business on PS3.�

So although their strategy is definitely now turning to the PlayStation 4, they haven�t forgotten PS3 gamers just yet�

�If you look at PlayStation 2, now in excess of 150m units installed globally, a huge majority of that was done at lower price points. There�s a considerable untapped part of the market there for PS3.�

At this stage a PlayStation 4 looks impossible for 2012 and perhaps even 2013�.

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