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Conflicting rumours have emerged about the announcement of Microsoft and Sony’s next big home consoles, with a Sony Japan boss pointing to a May reveal — and other sources claiming it could be on show as soon as March.
The pair of rumours come from two sources. One, reported in US magazine Game Informer, claims both Sony and Microsoft are preparing “Apple style” demonstration events for their new machines at this year’s Game Developers Conference, which takes place in the US at the end of March.
But that’s not what Hiroshi Sakamoto, Sony’s VP of home entertainment, thinks. Sakamoto told tech news site Emol that “we must wait until May at the earliest” to see its next-gen console plans, adding (via a translation robot) that “I can only say that we are focused on the E3 gaming event, scheduled for June’s announcement may be in that minute or even earlier in May.”
Both rumours suggest Sony and Microsoft are looking to announce their technology before the E3 gaming event, which takes place in June. They don’t want to share a stage at this critical time. [CVG & Cnet]
I really can’t see either of these new systems to be out for Christmas, unless they’ve had 3rd party developers making games for a couple of years already, getting them out for next Christmas will be a bit of an ask too.
Oh, they have been. Many people believe that at least two thirdparty games shown at last year’s E3 (running on high-end PCs) are intended for the launch window of the next generation of consoles.
With the higher spec of these devices .. Pc ports will be easier so i dont think they will need as much dev time to cook them up.
If it’s the usual Microsoft way.. they’ll show it then say it’ll be available to buy straight after this showing.
Well we’ve all seen Watch Dogs and Metal Gear Ground Zeroes already, that’s your first next-gen titles.
And don’t forget Starwars 1313!
http://www.lucasarts.com/games/1313/index.html
Oh yeah, 1313 is definitely running on next-gen tech.
Have a friend in Sony (a friend that stays very close to his nda so not to worry Sony lawyers) saying it’s all very exciting at Sony at the moment. It’s as if they are close to revealing something so this news of a March or May press event may be true.
Really looking forward to the next few months, I’m sure we’ll hear some concrete news from Sony or a guy in Taiwan taking dodgy images of components.
I hope thats not the PS4 controller!
That was the PS3 controller before release
Ah, lets hope it stays a property!
Feckin auto text! Prototype!!