It looks like your PlayStation 3 is going to be obsolete or near to it as to say. Sony is inviting media personalities and guests to attend an own hosted conference this coming February 20th. The announcement come out earlier this week from Home Entertainment Vice President. It was not clear what was coming but it promise to have impact on new PlayStation business. From the recent PlayStation blog post it encourages everyone to “see the future” of PlayStation on the coming big more than a week from now. Again no details was given.
For gamers who had been waiting for a new release of their Sony game console, most of us expected that it would come a month before June of which E3 Expo in Los Angeles. With this current turn of events it seemed that the wait will not have to be that long. It looks like Sony wants the release to happen before Microsoft introduces a new version xBox 360.
PlayStation 3 was released on 2006. It did not hit the market that much and Sony suffered a lot of losses until they have come up with some modification and affordable units. Still the competition was already there like xBox and Wii. In the past months they have been making money out of game sales, but recently that profit margin has become thinner and thinner. It can be attributed to introduction of smartphones, tablets, netbooks and other devices which the same games are made available.
Although nothing is clear yet about what to expect during the upcoming PlayStation conference. There are already rumors that are going around about what to expect on the new PlayStation 4 game console. One of the consistent idea is that the new console will incorporate social gaming into the new device. This means that players will be able to directly share their gaming stats on their social networks like Facebook and twitter without going through any third-party plugins.
Experts are also talking about some hardware improvements which we highly expect. But Sony is more interested on developing and enhancing ways on how players will interact with device. Which is the steady trend in the gaming industry. It’s also likely that soon we will be seeing ads inside our games. They too has to make some profits.
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