MCV wrote:Either Microsoft or Sony will shock the E3 crowds this summer by announcing that they will not release a next-generation console.
That’s the claim of cloud computing firm Gaikai.
The company’s chief product officer Nanea Reeves told Industry Gamers that: "Not all of the current console makers will have one more generation. That will be the big news at E3."
With Nintendo’s Wii U on track for a launch this year, that leaves Sony and Microsoft as the contenders.
MCV understands that Microsoft’s next-gen hardware plans are already well underway, meaning that if Gaikai’s claims are true they must reference Sony.
And perhaps that isn’t such a stretch.
MCV sticks by its January 6th story that both Microsoft and Sony will use this year’s E3 as the platform from which to reveal their next-gen offer.
But perhaps Kaz Hirai’s denial from earlier this week is actually true. Perhaps there will be no console. Perhaps the next-gen will, quite literally, be the next-gen.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/gaikai-m ... -e3/089667As these predictions get ever more ludicrous...
However, what is stopping Sony from disrupting the whole generation pre-set that dictates that all three manufacturers have to go at it using the same or similar technology specifications? You'd have three consoles on sale, in theory, all on massively varying scales of graphical prowess, all very much doing their own thing. Why can't Sony launch in 2015, or 16?
How would Sony compete in the meantime against Wii U & 720? By having the PS3 ludicrously cheap. And if rumours are true that Wii U isn't going to be much more powerful than the current set of consoles, it's not like the PS3 will be alone in looking 'out of date'.