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Source: You must login or register to view this content. // By: 420 // April 20th, 2011.

Industry sources had recently told Kotaku that new Xbox and PlayStation consoles aren’t likely to be released until 2014. Nintendo is predicted to launch their next console in 2012, so Microsoft and Sony are likely to wait out that generation. “Both MS and Sony are telegraphing to each other that they're delaying, to milk the current [generation] and fill in previous craters better,” says a man who worked for companies like Sony and Microsoft. In addition, other sources told Kotaku the similar news: that the release of a next generation console is likely to be in 2014, and 2013 if either companies feels “pushed.” If the next consoles are released in 2014, the gap of consoles for Microsoft would be nine years while Sony clocks in at eight years.

“I think we'll see a game of chicken between Sony and Microsoft. Sony definitely isn't launching a successor before 2014 and could stand to benefit by having Microsoft launch first as PS3 builds in to North America and builds a strong position in Europe. Microsoft claims there's a lot more room in Xbox 360 for developers to max out, but here PS3 could have a strong advantage,” says Billy Pidgeon, an industry analyst. Billy sees this as a tactical move by Sony, as there are “capitalizing” on the time in which they’ve got to come up with a well structured and functioning console. Sony PlayStation spokesperson Patrick Seybold refused to comment on the future of the consoles. Likely, Microsoft has been keeping their lips sealed as well. Shane Kim, former Xbox executive, said in 2009 that Microsoft will support the Xbox until 2015. Accordingly, the addition of the Kinect gives the Xbox more relevance and headroom.

The economy is playing a massive role on the release of these consoles. With a struggling economy, especially in North America, consumers are likely to be hesitant when it comes to buying such expensive pieces of electronics. “I don't think either Sony or Microsoft are interested in a new console till they can advance the technology, and they certainly don't want to launch at a $600 price point. It may take till 2014 to get 2TB hard drives, uber fast CPUs and state-of-the art graphics and sell at $400,” marks analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities. The only upside to the delay of consoles for are for Nintendo. They can freely release their next console without having to worry about the competition. Pidgeon also stated, “If Nintendo does very well with the next console. Microsoft and Sony will quickly get a lot more serious about next generation." Now, if Nintendo were to release a good machine which could compete with the graphics and capabilities of the current generation consoles, then Microsoft and Sony would have motives in order to release a new, competing, console. Until more moves are made by the companies, we won’t see too much of new console talks. Things are likely to change however after the next Nintendo console release.

It's about time. :rolleyes:

:y:

I foresee at least a quad core processor in the consoles that will come out then. The processor will be the major update to future consoles I believe unless they come out with a better quality of video or can condense Ultra HD or create storage for games with higher capacities that can hold large amounts of storage. Blu ray drives will obviously be in each console putting the DVD on the list of dinosaur technology. Hard drive space shouldn't be such a large issue because even if you do download content from online filling up a 120gb hard drive should be a challenge lol! Hopefully by 2014 all games will have 3D capability and each console will have a more evolved motion sensing technology that will involve the gamer even more into each game.

What do you think future consoles will look like?

PS3 will be simular to xbox,
Xbox will be simular to PS3,
Wii's are going to fail.

Its about time

60 fps as a minimum frame rate would be great. 120 would be golden. Also, having a lot of the game files stored on the console would be great. The game native resolutions should be at 720p or 1080p as a minimum instead of 600p, and the graphics should be ****ing sick. That would be a sick console

Nice i can't wait for the ps4 and the new xbox but 2014 is still pretty long :p so for now im waiting for the ngp :p

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120gb filling is very easy bro i have only 5gb left of my 120gb ps3 and i have it 2years:FU:

I hope the Wii beefs up their processor and graphics!!! If they do this then they will take over the Video Game industry like the mid-late 80's and early-mid 90's!

2TB might seem a lot now but in a few years u will probably be able to get wuite a bit more. alswo if they do make all games downloadable then a bigger hard drive will be required.

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u do realise with the console being more powerful and everything game saves will also be bigger so would need bigger than 120 gb. pretty sure the memory cards u used to get with ps2 were 8 mb and biggest was only 64 mb which was enough back then but by the time of the ps3 release 1 game save was easily bigger than that