Sony Letting Microsoft Make The First Move

[Vipsoccermaster]

You may have noticed that there are lots of rumours flying about regarding next-gen consoles. No one knows definitely when Microsoft and Sony will unveil their successors to the current Xbox and PlayStation, but Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai has said that it will let Microsoft make the first move.

Sony CEO, Kaz Hirai

In the Business section of The Times today, Hirai said, "Why go first, when your competitors can look at your specifications and come up with something better?"

With Nintendo already out the next-gen blocks with the Wii U, can Sony hold its bottle until the Microsoft announces? Surely his comments are slightly disingenuous, since there would be relatively little scope for changing the specs of the PlayStation this late in its development cycle. It's more likely that the additional time would be use to adjust the messaging surrounding the announcement.

Last week was a speculation rich week for the PlayStation 4, with reports that Sony will retire the DualShock controller.

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This could be interesting. Sony is letting Microsoft do the announcing of a new console first. Sony doesn't believe there's a point in going first. Sony is trying to gather inspirations from both Microsoft and Nintendo to try to do something better for PlayStaion 4 than what Wii U and the rumored Xbox 720 could do.

I can see why they would want to do this. They really want to try to steal the show by trying to prove that their next console will be much better than their competitors. However, since they want to be the last ones, who knows how long before Microsoft announces the Xbox 720?

 

[AegisReflector]

In before retarded "Sony copies everything" comments.