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Kaz Hirai, Sony’s new boss and one of the key men responsible for the successes of PlayStation, has suggested his company might wait to see what Microsoft’s next console is capable of before launching PS4, so it can make something “better.”
In an interview with The Times, Hirai said: “…why go first when your competitors can look at your specifications and come up with something better?” — a clear indication that even if Sony is already well down the line with development of PS4, it’s trying to give the impression that it’s still able to make changes ahead of launch should Microsoft’s next home machine prove to be a winner.
We’ve previously heard Sony staff claim that giving the competition a huge headstart again would be a little silly, while other rumours claim both Microsoft and Sony may have new hardware ready to show as soon as March.
We therefore suggest this is just Hirai playing a little game. [CVG]
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With each Playstation release, including PSP and Vita, Sony just lie about specs, titles etc… One big con.
Kaz, stop with the trash talk and make sure the PS4 can actually deliver – until then it’s all just conjecture and speculation.
Aren’t we all getting a little ahead of ourselves with all these next-gen posts? I’m sure we wont hear anything at least until GDC, but quite possibly past that.
It’s as if tech blogs are building them selves up to some amazing news to come next week, not too sure we’ll be that lucky.
And you expected him to say that it would be less powered? You do know they are in competition right? This is not news.
Sony will never be better than Microsoft 1 reason …. PSN
what about those of us who play with real friends and not against little racists online? i dont play online
oh and btw… drake games. best exclusive IP IMO
im no fanboy, i will buy whichever suits me better. but PSN/xbox live isnt an issue for me
P4PERTR4iL (below) its so shit it can play all the xbox games? you just sound like a rabid fanboy and you know what they do with people with rabies?
ps3 was a pile of sh*t i don’t know how $ony can even consider being better than a mega drive let alone an xbox 360
Ha …you $erious?!
As a general rule anyone who uses “$ony”, “micro$oft” or any similar thing can be ignored as it’s a good indication they don’t have a clue how the world works.
I like it, a preemptive tactic against a ruthless business rival
That picture is just crying out for a photoshop, especially the guy in the hat.
I concur, that guy is in prime position for photoshopping!
They could replace the move controllers with that “giant mushroom” found in China
It doesnt really matter who has the fastest machine, all that matters is who makes the most money out of theirs, and arent sony still struglling to break even on the PS3?
I seem to remember hearing that they were making a loss initially on each PS3 they sold. It’s all about licensing stuff on the games.
I am sure that sony did the same for when they produced PS3.
Didnt work with the PS3
And the corporate pissing match begins.
Sony gave MS a big head start on launch date, price and positive press this gen.
Guess which has shipped more?
PS3 overtook 360 last month. And if you account for (estimates of) retail-replaced RRoDs – which are recorded as shipped to retail – it probably happened last summer.
“…why go first when your competitors can look at your specifications and come up with something better?”
This is a stupid statement. When you’re first in, there’s a head start of early adopters hence more friends of owners buy because they can borrow games and play multiplayer games with them.
Plus any changes to specs that late in the game delay the console further due to testing and production.