There has been a recent increase in research and development costs at the Sony HQ. When the reason was asked behind this increase in development costs, a senior executive of Sony was quoted saying to investors that work on Playstation 3 successor is already underway.
Eurogamer quotes Masaru Kato:
“For the home equipment the PS3 still has a product life,” said Masaru Kato, the Sony chief financial officer, “but this is a platform business, so for the future platform—when we’ll be introducing what product I cannot discuss that—but our development work is already under way, so the costs are incurred there.”
The Playstation 2 was launched in the year 2000 and its successor Playstation 3 didn’t come until 2006. This makes it a 6 years life span from one generation to the next. Nintendo has already confirmed that it will be revealing its Next Generation Console in this upcoming E3, Microsoft hasn’t said anything expect smashing all the rumors and speculations regarding the next generation Xbox. It won’t be a surprise if Sony is indeed working on PS4.
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Source: Kotaku