Analyst Claims Next PlayStation, Xbox Will Cost $350-$400

[weirdee]

October would be great except for the whole "Pokemon gonna kill the competitors and their families" thing.

 

[RicoADF]

October might be a bit too early a guess.

I agree. Sony would've dropped at least some subtle hints at a new Playstation, plus what about those people who said that the PS3 still has 2 to 3 more years left.

As for the price I'm honestly surprised it doesn't cost more. I still remember the PS3's launch price of $600. That was a huge travesty starting off for Sony. As for the new Xbox I'd not be surprised if it came out this year as the 360 is the oldest out of all of the 7th generation consoles.

I doubt it has more than a year as the flagship console. Also on the latest email from Sony they said:

" Welcome to our new look newsletter for 2013 as we step closer towards an exciting new chapter in PlayStation history. 2013 is going to be a special year. We've got E3 to look forward to in June where we can expect to see more details on Sony's next-generation console but we've also got a host of major PS3 exclusive games coming out, "

Seems like a good hint its getting close to me

 

[Beautiful End]

I'd be very surprised if either of them released a console well under a year after it's announced, they'd want more time to hype them up surely?

My thoughts as well not to mention Sony only released the Vita last year and games using cross-play cross-buy have only gotten started to have a brand new system designed and ready to roll out in 10 months with no clear leaks or hints from developers not talking about launch window games seen highly unlikely to me.

That's actually a pretty good reason and this makes me happy.

I'm STILL used to my PS3 and doesn't seem outdated to me. But alright, I admit its old.
And I guess $400 is better than, let's say, $600? (Although it was that expensive back then because of the bluray and shit). I was kinda hoping for maybe $300-ish tops, like the WiiU. But then again, that's the WiiU...
And I suppose we'll also have to take many things into consideration, like the memory and stuff. That will change the price too.
But with my paycheck, a $400 console?

*Sigh* Well, at least my PS3 will live for at least another year. And that's good. :l

 

[Joccaren]

"Our checks suggest that next-generation console hardware will be largely built from 'off the shelf' high-end PC components

This made me laugh. High end PC components. Yea-no. Not going to happen, unless you count a single 560 as "High End" after the next wave of PC components comes out. It'll be two generations back, and at best mid range. Hell, right now I'd consider it mid range if its on its own. Graphics card wise, its not going to be High-End.
CPU wise it could be, as a lot of the more "High End" CPUs don't offer that much of an advantage over slightly older chips, which spreads out the High End range for CPUs a bit more. RAM, if you don't have High-End amounts of RAM [8Gb is borderline, not sure if I'd count it or not], you're building your console wrong - its cheap, its small, and there is no reason why you shouldn't have at least a fair amount of it in your box.

Otherwise, if the release dates are somewhat right, this is good news. Finally a new generation so that games can be improved more. Yeah, its not necessarily going to lead to innovation, never said it would. It'll give a fair boost to the AI, graphics, level size, number of things happening at once and other such things though.

 

[Lucane]

I'd be very surprised if either of them released a console well under a year after it's announced, they'd want more time to hype them up surely?

My thoughts as well not to mention Sony only released the Vita last year and games using cross-play cross-buy have only gotten started to have a brand new system designed and ready to roll out in 10 months with no clear leaks or hints from developers not talking about launch window games seen highly unlikely to me.

That's actually a pretty good reason and this makes me happy.

I'm STILL used to my PS3 and doesn't seem outdated to me. But alright, I admit its old.
And I guess $400 is better than, let's say, $600? (Although it was that expensive back then because of the bluray and shit). I was kinda hoping for maybe $300-ish tops, like the WiiU. But then again, that's the WiiU...
And I suppose we'll also have to take many things into consideration, like the memory and stuff. That will change the price too.
But with my paycheck, a $400 console?

*Sigh* Well, at least my PS3 will live for at least another year. And that's good. :l

Yeah I'd say if anything Sony might announce something next year at the earliest or in 2015 but I'd doubt they'd want to release/produce anything before 2016 the longer the last console is current the higher the profit margin will be. Besides people are still claiming it's "difficult" to program for a PS3.

 

[Antari]

For $400 dollars I can upgrade my pc's video card and buy a ton of games on steam. No thanks if they don't price it reasonably.