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Sony - "Competitors will make next-gen move first"
Ricardo Trejo
No matter what anyone says it appears that Sony isn’t budging from the 10 year lifespan they’ve set out for the PS3. And when speaking to Shuhei Yoshida, Sony’s Senior Vice President of Product Development, Develop-Online got him to mention some interesting thoughts of his on the upcoming next generation of gaming systems:
“Looking from the outside, it was Microsoft that released the first of this generation of consoles. Naturally, in my opinion, Microsoft will make the first move.
Or, because Nintendo’s approach was not to upgrade much on its basic hardware – Wii doesn’t even support HD resolution – so they might be the first to move.
Probably the watch should be on these companies, in my opinion. Because PS3 was later than Xbox, and is more powerful, so it has a longer lifespan.”
Naturally, Mr. Yoshida believes that the PS3 will have a longer lifespan than everyone else, and that may be true since it’s taken them so long to finally get into the swing of things. I mean I doubt anyone at Sony ever dreamt in their wildest dreams that it’d take them this long to become a realistic competitor in this generation’s console war.
Heck, Nintendo was all but down for the count during the final years of the Gamecube, and their Wii revolution was nothing short of Cinderella story. And yet, here we are in 2010, about half way through this generation’s console war, and we’re already hearing gossip and water cooler talk of new hardware despite Sony barely scraping back into the game.
Right now there’s not much we can do but speculate and wonder just who is going to draw first blood, though all signs point to Microsoft since they seem to enjoy leading the pack in terms of HD content, UI, and motion control publicity - however, they are holding their cards close to the chest when it comes to their next-gen plans which could mean they are trying to call out Sony’s bluff to see if they are willing to let on any of their own plans.
Regardless of what eventually becomes of all this, the direction of the big three companies is going to be a fascinating one since we’re in completely uncharted territories. What with digital distribution getting bigger and bigger, consoles getting smaller and faster, and games jumping out of the controller in your hand mold. Right now everyone’s in a Mexican stand-off, waiting for the first one to pull the trigger.
