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Sony Won't Invest As Heavily In PlayStation 4

Posted by timothy on from the ungrateful-wretches dept.

donniebaseball23 writes "Sony CFO Masaru Kato told investors this week that the company won't be looking to put the same kind of massive R&D into PS4 as they did with PS3. PS3's costs were astronomical because of Blu-ray and the Cell chip, but Sony's bottom line can't take another similar hit. Analysts are speculating that this will leave the door open for competitors like Microsoft. 'PS4's hardware could be less impressive than the PS3 at its launch. I think Microsoft will really be able to put the screws to Sony in the next console war,' Panoptic analyst Asif Khan commented to IndustryGamers."

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  1. Re:Pro move actually by forgottenusername · · Score: 0, Troll

    They sure as shit are.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123069467545545011.html

    Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360#Development

    . This was because the system's PowerPC 970 processor running the same PowerPC architecture that the Xbox 360 would eventually run under IBM's Xenon processor. The cores of the Xenon processor were developed using a slightly modified version of the PlayStation 3's Cell Processor PPE architecture. According to David Shippy and Mickie Phipps, the IBM employees were "hiding" their work from Sony and Toshiba.".[21] Jeff Minter created the music visualization program Neon which is included with the Xbox 360.

    But keep modding me down because of your own ignorance, I don't mind. :)