Eri said:
Berithil said:
Tanis said:
Baldr said:
Hairless Mammoth said:
It's already confirmed it's the PS4.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323701904578276672168365276.html
Until it comes from Sony's own mouth, nothing is confirmed.
That said, I'm not signing up for the Wall Street Journal, so I can't actually read the article you posted, but if this is the Wall Street source other sites have been quoting, it's another one of those vague 'people familiar with this matter state' kind of things, and I hold absolutely no degree of belief in those sources until they are confirmed correct by the company itself. If there's something in that article that is more than that, then perhaps this is as good as 'confirmed.'
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However, if it's not, (as I'm not yet believing it to be), I don't know what else it would be. Perhaps Sony is announcing that Home is finally out of beta. Making a huge tease like this for a cloud service seems unlikely, but I suppose it's possible.
The thing is, Sony
has to know that when they make an announcement like this, the very first thing on people's minds, given how much speculation has been flying about it, is their next console. If they make this huge tease and then it
isn't for the next PlayStation? I think there's gonna be some huge fallout to that that Sony aren't seeing.
Also, if it
is for the next PlayStation, why would they make the announcement on February 20th? Why wouldn't they wait and make a killer press conference at E3? Is there some significance to the date that I'm not seeing? I mean, the Vita came out on the 22nd of February last year. Maybe the announcment is like a one-year anniversary type thing for it, and there's some big news on that front? Other than that, the first PlayStation launched in September, the 2nd in October, and the third in November, and the PSP in March (these are all the North American dates).
And then there's that. As far as I know, this mystery tease popped up on Sony's North American site first, and perhaps exclusively. If this were a PS4 announcement tease, shouldn't it have been on a Japanese site first? I mean, that
is their country of origin, and all of their stuff comes out there first.
I dunno, guys. I don't know what it might be, but I'm not feeling a console announcement at the moment.