Hardware Ps3 or wait for ps4?

Which ps to get? ps3 or wait for ps4?

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bjorno

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Too bad.. If I buy a ps3, it will be a slim. All fats/phats are already gone unless I buy a second handed or refurbished console. But I will never buy a second handed or refurbished.
The look of the fat/phat is much better than the slim
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There wont be a PS4 until the end of 2012.
2011 is the release of the second PSP. Sony will never release two consoles in the same year and there are not even rumors about it.
Maybe we will see the PS4 at the end of 2012. So that Sony can reveal it at the E3 2012 and release it nov/dec 2012.

Maybe it will be later, but not before. So if you want to wait 2 years, then wait.
 

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Originality said:
Can they really develop an entirely new console in 2 years when they were originally planning to stick to this one for another 4 or so years?

I'm sure that they work since some years on the PS4.
4 years seems a little bit too far away for me, but it could be possible...
 

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Dang. It is difficult to choose. If it the ps4 releases end of 2011 /2012 I will be stupid to buy the ps3 now. But no one knows the exact release date
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Simply a PS3, PS4 will take 3 years +. They won't make another console yet, they have the psp2 and the ps3 is getting pwned, so PS3!!
 

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Sony has been launching a console after 6 years of life of its predecessor. PS4 will definitely arrive in 2012, but they'll still support PS3, like it was with PS2.

We'll see the last main PS3 Final Fantasy game (XV) the year Sony launches PS4.
 

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The full potential of the Playstation 3 hasn't even been touched yet. I'd say Sony may have future-proofed themselves from even needing another console next generation.

Before I continue, I'm a Microsoft fan, but still...

Microsoft with it's Xbox 9001:
LOOK AT THE GRAPHICS!!

Sony:
Oh you mean these? *Kevin Butler turns on Madden 2014 for PS3*
 

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Sony built the PS3 with the intention of it lasting longer then the typical life cycle of the average console. Regardless of all the hacks that have been released I don't think Sony will be releasing a new console anytime soon.

Add-ons like the Move are intended to increase the life cycle of the PS3 and re-vamp consumer interests in the device.

Aside from devices like the Kinect and Move there really aren't any new leaps and bounds in technology applicable to consoles that would really benefit the creation of an entirely new next-gen console. Blu-ray is still blossoming and has a lot more time to really saturate the market. Sony can still ride the PS3 out for awhile with a few little revisions here and there like every console does.

If any console has a next leap to make it would be Microsoft with the addition of Blu-Ray or even an attempt at taking it to the obvious next level of digital media. I don't see that happening anytime soon either though. The Kinect has brought a nice boost to consumer interest in the Xbox and has in turn extended its life span. I'm not sure that the Move has done much of the same for the PS3 but it certainly buys them some time.

You also have to understand that the typical life span of consoles has increased with the ability of the manufacturers to apply firmware updates. You can't judge a consoles life span by the ones of the past like the delay between the PS1 > PS2 > PS3. Updates that used to require an entirely new console to be manufactured now just require a download or update on a game disc.

With all that being said, it's not to say that a new console with new technologies couldn't be produced soon, it just doesn't seem likely or worthwhile with what's currently available technology wise.
 

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Sony has made it very clear the PS3 has a minimum 10 year lifecycle, which I expect to last closer to 11 - 13, and Microsoft has followed that example by essentially saying Kinect is the start of a second life cycle for the Xbox 360. So yes, if you want a PS3, get a PS3, because we won't be seeing a PS4 hit store shelves until at least 2016. That isn't taking into consideration that the PS2 is still receiving new games (though less frequently than before, of course), even today. So expect the PS3 to see life beyond the release of a PS4.
 

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Lassik said:
Sony built the PS3 with the intention of it lasting longer then the typical life cycle of the average console. Regardless of all the hacks that have been released I don't think Sony will be releasing a new console anytime soon.

Add-ons like the Move are intended to increase the life cycle of the PS3 and re-vamp consumer interests in the device.

Aside from devices like the Kinect and Move there really aren't any new leaps and bounds in technology applicable to consoles that would really benefit the creation of an entirely new next-gen console. Blu-ray is still blossoming and has a lot more time to really saturate the market. Sony can still ride the PS3 out for awhile with a few little revisions here and there like every console does.

If any console has a next leap to make it would be Microsoft with the addition of Blu-Ray or even an attempt at taking it to the obvious next level of digital media. I don't see that happening anytime soon either though. The Kinect has brought a nice boost to consumer interest in the Xbox and has in turn extended its life span. I'm not sure that the Move has done much of the same for the PS3 but it certainly buys them some time.

You also have to understand that the typical life span of consoles has increased with the ability of the manufacturers to apply firmware updates. You can't judge a consoles life span by the ones of the past like the delay between the PS1 > PS2 > PS3. Updates that used to require an entirely new console to be manufactured now just require a download or update on a game disc.

With all that being said, it's not to say that a new console with new technologies couldn't be produced soon, it just doesn't seem likely or worthwhile with what's currently available technology wise.


Blu-ray will not happen for other consoles, it a SONY product.
Also the Xeon processors used in the console along with the Blu-ray, where also part of the marketing strategy.
If they would sell a lot of PS3's the Xeon and Blu-ray players would get their market share the easy way, and interest other hardware company's.

A lot of people also think the Wii games are pressed on DVD. They are not. They are Nintendo's own format Wii disks and can hold 4.37 GB ( a dvd can hold 4.7 GB ).
Nintendo refused to buy the DVD license.
Blu-ray is a SONY product, cleverly used in their console, hoping it will become a media standard.
We all know how that turned out.
As a console I think the PS3 won't last another 5 years.
 

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the ps4 is a slippery slop for sony as the number four is bad luck for Japanese people as the pronunciation of four is similar to the pronunciation for death in Japanese. sony would be foolish to call it the ps4.
 

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well, they are working on something called a holographic disc which dwarfs blue ray. I think it has the potential to hold over 3 terabytes of data, but I can just imagine the cost of games with that format.
 

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