Global chief executive of Sony, Kaz Hirai, is suggesting that the next Sony console will not release until Microsoft has put their next Xbox on sale.
In a recent interview with The Times, Hirai states: ”why go first when your competitors can look at your specifications and come up with something better?”.
While I understand that Sony, like every company, are maintaining a business and therefore are constantly on their toes when assessing the competition, this sounds like a somewhat paranoid and irrational statement. I doubt that Microsoft could alter the entire system that they’ve been working on in secret for so long whenever it suits them.
CVG states that a “senior source” suggests that Hirai’s opinion may not be necessarily shared with other executives within the company. It told them that giving Microsoft a head-start would be a “ridiculous” idea, considering their hold on the market when the Xbox 360 launched a year before the PlayStation 3.
Also, the PlayStation 4 is already rumoured to be more powerful that the Xbox 720, according to a recent report by VG247. If it is true that Sony’s upcoming console has a 50* power advantage over Microsoft’s, then this only serves to further ridicule Hirai’s claim.
In other next-gen news, it is rumoured that the Dual Shock controller may be abandoned for the PS4, and both the next Xbox and PS4 may be revealed in March according to a recent report.
Article from Gamersyndrome.com
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An aspiring writer from England. Reece was born with a controller in his hands. From the age of 4 he had his filthy mitts on a Game Boy, PSOne and Sega Mega Drive (Genesis to you Americans!),. Open to any system and genre, he remains completely unbiased as a proud owner of a Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, PS3 and 3DS. 
