Too soon: No plans for next PlayStation at E3, Hirai says

Looking back...coming out last was a better deal in the long run....

Sounds good to me. Wait a couple of years, market the PS3 as the cheap alternative to Wii U and next Xbox, and then...BANG...release one console to rule them all.

I'm very doubtful of anything from either Sony or Microsoft at E3 other than new current system announcements. That doesn't mean they aren't working on a follow up consul, it just means they feel there is still more blood to be sapped from the current generation.

I got my 360 at launch in 2005. It will be 7 years this fall. If Sony doesn't launch something their going to miss out on a huge chunk of their target audience. 7 years is more than enough time for a hardware refresh. If not I'm done with consoles, I'll build a new PC for Windows 8 instead.

I wasn't expecting it until next year anyways....so an announcement at E3 next year with a global launch next August would be possible. Tho When is the last time they announced a console at E3 and did a global release in the same year?

I feel as though my Xbox 360 and PS3 are just getting warmed up. For the first time in console history, I would be more than happy to wait another few years for new consoles. As for the Wii U, well, not a fan.

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In my opinion yes and no. When the original XBOX launched late in the game, Sony's PS2 held the market. Admittedly this was later learned to be their Trojan horse to break the 360 into the market, but launching early was a necessity for the 360 in a market held by Sony and Nintendo. They could be seen as next gen while the others couldn't make that claim. However when the PS3 launched, although sporting nice next gen features it launched into the game far too late bringing nothing new to the game that the competition couldn't match in one way or another outside of their Blu-ray player. The fact that the 360 came out first, is showing it's age, and still manages to stay on top in sales (according to joystiq articles mind you) seems to indicate they are marketing better at every turn than Sony has in this gen. I honestly think that if Sony waits this next gen, and prepares a proper marketing onslaught aimed at the right people, they can match the competition at the least, and at their best innovate and trump everything they bring to the game. Let's face it, like it or not today's consoles have to do more than just game. They need to multiple-task. Be that playing music, watching movies, or surfing YouTube or Facebook. Hardcore gamers may have no use for these things, but hardcore gamers are no longer the only fish in this next gen ocean.

I can totally live with that. There is no need to run the next PS console to market. Only new console on the table is the Wii U, and lets be honest...that is basically Nintendo playing catch up to the current times. Even if the specs on paper edge out the PS3 and X360, the Wii U is just entering the league where the PS3 and X360 have being playing on from day one.

Oh, I am so ready for new consoles to come out already. This generation has lasted far longer than the previous ones. :(

I'm going to cry if the next Playstation and Xbox are only minor upgrades in horsepower like from the Gamecube to the Wii.

I think this is the best way for Sony to go, the Vita hasn't really taken off in Japan yet, and I honestly think with the current economic climate they'd have a similar situation on their hands were they to release the PS4 too soon. I say kick back and see how the Wii U does before doing anything drastic, Sony isn't exactly in a good place financially as it is, and I don't think they could really support both the Vita and a new console, at least until the Vita takes off, plus the Wii U will be a good measure of how new hardware will sell, especially if you take in to account a lot of the people who bought Wiis were casual gamers and I think you'll have a bit harder time convincing them that they need to upgrade their hardware to keep playing Wii Sports and Wii Fit.

I'm ready for a new console. The current ones are just holding back games now.

I kind of expected this for Playstation. They don't need to announce PS4 yet. The potential of the PS3 hasn't even been completely realized yet.

As for Microsoft, I am interested in finding out more about the new system.

I'm hoping Wii-U blows me away. I want to proudly say "I play my Wii-U just as much as my PS3" or something like that. I don't want something subpar. I want something that is capable of making XBox's new console obsolete before it's even announced. (Hopes too high? probably). Anyway, yeah, I'm hoping Nintendo is not still two steps behind it's competitors. I hope it's either right up there with them, or a step ahead.

It kind of makes sense for sony to wait...see what they have to beat...and then beat it.

The PS3 came out 6 years into the PS2's life cycle but the PS2 stuck around for a lot longer (they're still selling them!). It is natural to assume that the same will be true of the PS3; I doubt we will have to wait until 2016 for the PS4 but the PS3 will likely still be supported at least partially until then.

Sony is probably waiting to see what Microsoft does at E3. If the next Xbox is announced Sony will start planning their own announcement; this might occur sometime later this year like at the TGS or more likely sometime a few months before the next Xbox actually comes out onto the market. Sony does still have the Vita to market and sell after all.

But it would be foolish to assume that Sony is not currently working on it's next-gen console like Microsoft is. It is very likely that some of the biggest developers like Naughty Dog already have some idea or prototype of this hardware to work with; how else do we see 3rd party launch titles?

You guys need to realize that that's the only thing he could have said. If he said anything different it would have amounted to an announcement.

As for me I hope that the next gen will come out too, and so should you. It will be a good year after coming out until the new consoles build up a library worth playing, and by that time there could be the first price cut.

Also, I'm sorry but 256 MB of RAM is laughable in this day and age. It handicaps AI, gameplay, number of enemies on screen, co-op features, multiplayer, etc. etc.

^ I hope the next gen comes out *soon*

By the time these new consoles come out, our smartphones will be more powerful than the current systems! Some smartphone games like Shadowgun and Modern Combat 3 look very impressive in my book.

Is anyone honestly surprised by this? Both Sony and Microsoft are trying to make money off of their motion controllers right now, Microsoft is brokering new broadcast content deals for their current hardware, and Sony is just about to launch a new handheld; they're not going to mess with that by introducing a new console into the mix so soon.

My prediction? Maybe a preliminary announcement at E3 or TGS in 2013, a more tangible demo in 2014, followed by a launch either that year or the next year in 2015. Any sooner than that, they'd be shooting themselves in the foot.

Yeah right. It's already been confirmed that they've reached out to 3rd party devs to work up some PS4 gameplay footage for the expo. Terrible kept secret.

One of the two need to announce something, if only to get the consumers talking & also to piss on Nintendos & Reggie Fils-Aime parade . Come on what's E3 without someone stealing another companies thunder.

Remember they have denied things like this before about reveals... And then they've revealed it. So... I don't know.

Believe me...the current consoles are maxed out. There's only so much computing those hot, cramped 1 fan systems can do before they melt and break.

They're already breaking left and right as it is.

It's time for next gen and the modern chip manufacturing process that allows things to run much cooler and efficiently. Could Uncharted 4 look slightly better than anything else out there? Probably Should it? Probably not a good idea.

There is no reason for Sony or Microsoft to move to the next gen. Nintendo needed to join the current gen, while the first two are doing just fine in it. Graphics, power, net code are all getting better and evolving on the 360 and ps3 still, there is no need to waste millions on new hardware just to appease silly tech junkies.

This doesn't surprise me in the least. I don't know why anyone thought a PS4 would be announced at E3 this year.

looks like Microsoft will win once again. We all know the new Xbox will be announced at this years E3. The 360 is almost 7 years old now

I think Microsoft is more likely to reveal their system than Sony. Though I wouldn't be surprised if Sony announces the PS4 as we've heard rumors of developers working on games for it.