There is speculation that the company will soon announce its new-generation Playstation 4 console.
There it debuted the next generation Playstation, officially dubbed the PS4.
Finally, we got what may be our first hint at how the next-generation PlayStation home console is coming together, courtesy of a leaked developer document handed to Kotaku.
Sony confirmed a holiday release date for its next generation PlayStation 4 at PlayStation Meeting 2013, but it saved a lot of the important details like price point, actual release date and what the console even looks like for a later date.
This may be disappointing news for hardcore and traditional gamers, because it probably means there will be no next-generation Xbox or PlayStation for the next five years, while the companies focus on the motion-control systems.
FORBES: Probably No Next-Gen Xbox Or PlayStation For Next Five Years
Sony has announced its next-generation gaming console - the PlayStation 4 - at an event in New York.
Instead, they will focus on their latest respective motion-sensing add-on systems to the current-generation consoles, Kinect and PlayStation Move.
FORBES: Probably No Next-Gen Xbox Or PlayStation For Next Five Years
Cell chips are well suited to processing streams of video and sound, and for modelling the complex three-dimensional worlds of video games, so Cell's debut will be in Sony's next-generation games console, the PlayStation 3, which is expected to contain four of the beasts.
Microsoft's company line remains that Sony 's PlayStation 3 is its real competition in this generation of consoles.
Chernin says the company expected the site's numbers to dip as gamers stopped buying titles for their Xboxes and Sony PlayStation 2s, while saving up for the next generation of machines.
Chernin says the company expected the site's numbers to dip as gamers stopped buying titles for their Xboxes and Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) PlayStation 2s, while saving up for the next generation of machines.
This would be huge for the next generation of consoles, such as the tentatively titled PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720, but it could also help the sale of existing games and devices.
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Sony just announced the next generation of video game consoles, and it starts with Playstation 4.
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Perpetual font of wisdom (and Worldwide Studios President) Shuhei Yoshida has warned that the PlayStation Move is the only controller making the leap to the next generation.
By including a Blu-ray optical drive in the PlayStation 3, it hopes to promote its own standard for the next generation of DVDs, and the console as a device for playing them.
But I suspect the difference between the next Xbox and the next PlayStation will be about the same as the difference between the two systems this generation.
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It has Sony 's PlayStation 3 on the ropes in the United States, and among today's generation of 20-somethings, Microsoft is better known for blockbuster games like "Halo 3" and "Gears of War" than its bruising late 1990s anti-trust case.
It has Sony 's (nyse: SNE - news - people ) PlayStation 3 on the ropes in the United States, and among today's generation of 20-somethings, Microsoft is better known for blockbuster games like "Halo 3" and "Gears of War" than its bruising late 1990s anti-trust case.
Heavyweights Microsoft and Nintendo released next-generation consoles in November (Xbox and GameCube, respectively) to compete with Sony's PlayStation 2.
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