Sony reshuffle says 'nothing' about PS4 plans - Pachter News
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Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has dismissed suggestions that Sony's executive reshuffle signals the company's exit from the console hardware market as "foolish" and "embarassing".
"I think Kutaragi's promotion signals absolutely nothing about Sony's plans for a PlayStation 4," Pachter told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz.
"It is embarassing that an analyst could reach that conclusion so soon after launch. Sony cannot have made such a decision, and to draw such an inference is foolish."
Pachter's comments come after former SCEA boss Kaz Hirai was announced as the new president of SCEI - a move which, according to Nomura analyst Yuta Sakurai, suggests a shift by Sony away from hardware and towards software.
It's not just Pachter who disagrees - speaking to consumer site Gamespot, SCEA communications boss Dave Karraker said, "Following the launch of the PlayStation 3 just a few weeks ago, and witnessing the huge consumer demand for the product, I think it would be rather short-sighted for anyone to predict there might not be a next generation of PlayStation product."
Pachter went on to say that he was in agreement with another analyst, Hiroshi Kamide, who has stated that he believes Ken Kutaragi will now be responsible for managing relationships with third-parties.
"I have said repeatedly that this is the last console 'cycle' as we know them, and that future hardware would contain new features and functions, but not change the architecture until we are ready for virtual reality or holographic gaming," Pachter concluded.
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captbirdseye
01/12/06 @ 15:10
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"I have said repeatedly that this is the last console 'cycle' as we know them, and that future hardware would contain new features and functions, but not change the architecture until we are ready for virtual reality or holographic gaming," Pachter concluded.
Like Lawnmower man ?
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Thamuhacha
01/12/06 @ 15:11
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"virtual reality or holographic gaming"
What is this? The eighties? Who's still waiting for them? Why didn't he go the whole way and add "direct neural input" |
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lance.carter
01/12/06 @ 15:16
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This should be the start of a long-lasting thread entitled "How many cells in PS4"
I'm going for a 'slightly changed cell' and a count of 12 cell chips in the year 2012. |
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Carpathian
01/12/06 @ 15:27
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"until we are ready for virtual reality or holographic gaming"
We've been *ready* for it for many years but you buggers that make the hardware and software won't give it to us ! Besides, spouting that off when you really have not one iota of a clue of if it ever will be possible is about as much use as saying you were waiting for "fish drives, hydrogen tilt strut controllers and Arkright-Wribbler feedback boxes". I know we all diss the Sony end of things but they really do spout more bollocks-per-press-release (BPPR%) than anybody. {sigh}
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i want a motion sensing headset with 2 cameras that will show you what you are seeing... essentially a picture of what you're looking at, but coupled with augmented reality, so you're playing some survival horror in your own house and running around shooting 3d VR zombies with a VR gun in your actual kitchen... then you go into the sitting room and your actual TV switches on and you get the scene from the ring.
or pikmin style herding game but you use your hands and navigate them round stuff on your desk. i see that as the next step in the medium. it doesn't even have to be game based. the tech has many industrial and comercial uses too... imagine an architect taking a client to some wasteland and then getting them to put on the headset and see how it would be transformed... we're not far off either i'd say.
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@disc Yes, yes but who cares whether a £3000 PC may or may not be more capable then a £280 machine in 3 - 4 years time? It's all about the gamezzzzzz.
"...until we are ready for virtual reality or holographic gaming" Is this finally Teh Matrix Sony promised us when talking about the PS2 before it's launch? |
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"I have said repeatedly that this is the last console 'cycle' as we know them, and that future hardware would contain new features and functions, but not change the architecture until we are ready for virtual reality or holographic gaming," Pachter concluded.
This man is a sad waste of water and carbon. |
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Couple of things, This generation of consoles are not DX10 compatible so obviously over the next year as more DX10 games are unvieled we will see a vast increase in the visual fidelity of our PC games.
However do not forget that the consoles are dedicated gaming machines all there power is bent towards polygon crunching power. It would be foolish to believe that they will look dated even after 3 years. Games that are only ever released on a console will be released that still evoke a sense of awe. Some of a consoles most impressive both technically and visually astounding games are released at the end of the consoles life. Just look at some of the releases coming to the PS2 - Okami and FFXII Personally i buy and play console specific games i dont want to play the weird hybrid bastard child ones. Arcade style games are far better suited for consoles I' am happy to have the two completely divorced from one another. I dont want Oblivion on a console the same way i dont want streetfighter or guitar hero on my PC. So does it matter that PC will be more powerful, NO! |
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Thamuhacha
01/12/06 @ 16:07
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>This generation of consoles are not DX10 compatible
DirectX isn't the only way to make games you know. It's not "incompatible" if you have created a different way to do it. Don't disagree with your other points though |
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Eighthours
01/12/06 @ 16:35
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Embarrassing.
Naughty EG!
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kangarootoo
01/12/06 @ 16:48
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@disc
"Sorry but the hardware in both the 360 and PS3 is already falling behind the PC and in 3-4 years time they will look terribly dated. " Sort of like all consoles ever you mean? |
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Analysts can say whatever they want because what they predict is generally so far away as far as time is concerned that by the time the event actually occurs other analysts have moved on to making their own ridiculous predictions about current events. Then the blogosphere will eat those predictions alive. It's a vicious cycle
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magicianlord
02/12/06 @ 07:12
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OMG they are starting to pimp an 'Emotion Hologram Virtual Eternal Reality' chip thing already.
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chupachups
02/12/06 @ 16:04
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By the way, anyone have any idea why Sony was so reluctant to refer to the PS3 as the PS3? Until a very short while before its unveiling, they insisted on calling it "the next console in the PlayStation series".
Does this indicate some kind of desire by Sony to turn PlayStation into something more than a range of consoles?
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"By the way, anyone have any idea why Sony was so reluctant to refer to the PS3 as the PS3? Until a very short while before its unveiling, they insisted on calling it "the next console in the PlayStation series".
Does this indicate some kind of desire by Sony to turn PlayStation into something more than a range of consoles?" Because they want to build on the Worldwide Playstation brand which is huge. Once Sony gets the flow of PS3's to retail it will change the momentum the 360 is currently enjoying. I still believe the PS3 will will come out on top again even with it's high price tag. |
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YourMessageHere
02/12/06 @ 22:45
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I'd love to know on what basis he's decided this latest generation of consoles is the last one, and how he expects to add "features and functions" without changing the "architecture". It's a fairly sweeping statement which ought to be backed up with facts or at least a solid theory. I don't get why loads of influential people aren't calling bullshit, and why his apparently rampant speculation is listened to, rather than others who demonstrably have expertise in making games rather than playing with money.
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