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Source: You must login or register to view this content.// You must login or register to view this content. // By: The Open Minded // Monday, July 4th, 2011

This is only in the rumor stages. Nonetheless, there seems to be leaked information pertaining to the PS4. Foxxcon and Pegatron technology, the two manufacturing companies that handle the production of the PS3, have claimed they are also in the process of producing parts for the PS4.

According to these two Japanese manufacturers, the PS4 is estimated to be released in 2012. I would say it is safe to assume it would release nearer to the end of the year in order to get a boost in sales for the holidays. These companies also report that Sony plans on shipping 20 million consoles around the world, before the end of 2012.

What is even more interesting is the fact that both sources have stated they are producing hardware which will emulate the features from Microsoft's Kinect peripheral. If these claims are true then it will be interesting to see how Sony will be incorporating it's move controllers with the movement recognition features.

Just as any other claim, these have very little information confirming they are true, but it will be interesting to find out how much truth they hold. It would not be very surprising if the PS4 is to come in 2012, as Sony seems to be putting this next generation console on the fast track after the Jailbreak phenomenon and the infamous hacking of the Playstation Network.

So do you think that the Playstation 4 will be coming in 2012? Do you think that if it does, will it be likely it will include the body control features that emulate Kinect? Do you think the market is ready for the PS4 or should Sony concentrate on the PS3 for a bit longer?

So soon an new PS? I bought my PS3 in 2010 and now is again coming an new... Well if it comes in 2012 i will not buy it yet, im happy with PS3.

they need to bring cross game chat out and name changes possibly, if so, FuXck the PS4 =D

It is very possible if you follow the 6-year interval between consoles.. a 2012 release would make sense.

Personally if they do I am going 360.

Agreed.
They Should Just Stick With The PS3 For A While.

I think this is a little to early don't you guys think? I think instead of releasing a new console they should try to work on creating a awesome new appearance like Microsoft's dashboard.

great so now i have to spend probably about $800 for a new console
i hope its not released, i still like my ps3

I don't really care when it comes out, I'll end up buying it anyway, always preferred PlayStation over other consoles. But everybody thinks it coming out in 2012 might be a bit early, and it might be, but once the PlayStation 2 was made they followed through with a slim version of that within a few years and then they began making the PlayStation 3. The PS3 Slim was put out in 2009 so that's a 3 almost 3 year window for them to have began making/designing the next PlayStation. I doubt they'll call it PS4 though.

Only thing I'd point out worth caring about is that Sony could triumph from what everybody saw with the PlayStation 3, shows what they're capable of. When it first came out it was supposed to have been up to the standards of great gaming PCs then, putting some to shame even for a year or so. Obviously PC gaming is such high standard because people can freely upgrade theirs by buying and changing the parts like graphics cards and all that baloney. If Sony went a step further towards PC gaming and the attitude of PC gaming and began with the opening console as standard and as time goes on and new technologies get released for PC, to keep up with them time after time produce user-friendly parts that PlayStation owners can change in their systems just like a PC.

I'm not too sure how this would be done, but I'm sure the correct layout of the internal mechanics could be set out and labelled so clearly that literally any person could change the parts when updating their console. The console shell would have to be easily removed also, and even though theres always a warranty issue with taking apart consoles they could surely work out some system. Giving people the option to obviously use the original model without upgrading would still be available also but games would clearly be sub-par to the most updated PlayStations people can possibly have.

Game developers like DICE would be in ****ing heaven if some console implemented this kind of thing, even Battlefield 3 is proof. The PC version is beyond comparable with the console version as most people would know from seeing gameplay, and it's surely bother trying to make a game and having to make it downgraded for consoles and even the Xbox can't show the lighting as well as the PlayStation so they had to make a new system to improve it to match the PlayStation version. If the console was upgradable they'd basically be able to mass produce the same quality game across the board, except the one console that's still the same as on release date with its once up-to-date technology gathering dust.

It's why Call of Duties have gone so bad the last few years. The originals were based on PC and everything was put in place on PC to be the best it could be and they put as much effort into the PC versions as possible and gave great perks to having it on PC. Once that was all done they'd downgrade it as much as possible and tweak it to go on console but still develop a great game on console because of how close they attempted to match it to the PC version. CoD 2 and CoD 4 are serious examples. New versions are the opposite, they seem to start on console first (the whole bullshit with Microsoft on Xbox :rolleyes because it's where most of the games are sold and they take that as the objective when realy if they just stuck to making the game as best as it could be on PC and then tweaking it for consoles it would still be an amazing game, year after year with the old "awww" and "ohhhh" we used to experience when we anticipated new Call of Duty releases from CoD up until CoD 4 and MW2 when the innovation and raised expectations came to a halt. Now it's all the same shit year in, year out.

Sorry for this being so long, but I didn't go off on too much of a tangent.