After the news that Sony will present its next generation PlayStation 4 (PS4), this year's Sony doing the production stage soon. Masaru Kato, the Chief Financial Officer also gave a positive signal.
The report said that if Sony will cooperate with Taiwanese company Foxconn and Pegatron Tech ie, in memebuat PS4. PS4 will reportedly supports Microsoft's proprietary technologies such as Kinect.
Saturday (09/07/2011), Masaru Kato, the Chief Financial Officer at this time revealed that Sony was working on the project at the stage of research and development.
Initially, officials estimated the Sony PS3 will last up to ten years. But lately, they began to doubt these estimates. They assume, at the latest PS3 can last for at least eight years.
On the other hand, during the Sony maintains PS3, Nintendo as its largest competitor has announced a new gaming device, Wii U which will start shipping in 2012.
Circulating rumors, Sony's own plans to ship 20 million units next year PS4. April, Sony announced it had sold 50 million units of PS3. For now, companies from Japan's central focus on improving the ability of the PlayStation handheld gaming devices Vita.