Sony CEO: Competitors can go first in console battle

by John Keefer, Jan 21, 2013 4:30pm PST

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A lot has been speculated about the upcoming next generation consoles. Whether it's an eight-core AMD CPU for Sony's Orbis or Microsoft's Durango being released before Thanksgiving, nothing is definite. But Sony CEO Kaz Hirai seems content to sit back and see what the competition will do first.

"Why go first, when your competitors can look at your specifications and come up with something better?" Hirai said in an interview with The Times. He wouldn't go into more detail, but with the respective consoles being far into their development cycles, it would seem unlikely that any significant changes could be made at this point without a major delay. It wouldn't be the first time a CEO played coy or offered a bit of misdirection.

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A lot has been speculated about the upcoming next generation consoles. Whether it's an eight-core AMD CPU for Sony's Orbis or Microsoft's Durango being released before Thanksgiving, nothing is definite. But Sony CEO Kaz Hirai seems content to sit back and see what the competition will do first.

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John Keefer posted a new article, Sony CEO: Competitors can go first in console battle.

A lot has been speculated about the upcoming next generation consoles. Whether it's an eight-core AMD CPU for Sony's Orbis or Microsoft's Durango being released before Thanksgiving, nothing is definite. But Sony CEO Kaz Hirai seems content to sit back and see what the competition will do first. : Shacknews
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  Hey Kaz, the competitors went first this generation. Want to know what happened? "Giant enemy crabs!" .... : the archvile
  - they also went first in the previous 2 generations as well (Dreamcast, Saturn before that) and Sony came ... : RikiTiki2
- Wow, I wouldn't have guessed this...seems like a bad move considering how it all went down last time. : Vorlonesque
- Wow... that's pretty ballsy, considering the most recent generation of consoles... : Ambient80
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  I lot of people seem to speculate that the 360 dominates all over the world. It's clearly a second-class... : eyetyrant248
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    The 360 has under 5% market share in Japan. In Europe, the PS3 has marginally better market share than t... : the archvile
    - Well, depending on how you look at it, there are more PC titles in a typical video game store than any pa : eyetyrant248
    - not sure about the market share in Europe, and if so it's because of the blu-ray player : moshman
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    people still care about jrpgs? : -=kodiak=-
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      Hell yeah. Not modern Final Fantasy, but games that have that same mechanic. : the archvile
      
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      i dig certain games in that playstyle. Not going to lie, last time i ever had any fun with those games in... : -=kodiak=-
      
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      skies of arcadia : EvilDolemite
      
      thank you!!! even by the end of that game i kinda got worn out with the random battles. loved the g... : -=kodiak=-
      
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      My problem is the length...there was this whole stupid arms race of "our game is the longest" in the 90's... : Vorlonesque
      
      ... the androgynous characters are pretty goddamn pathetic as well. First time that really stood out f... : -=kodiak=-
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      NI NO KUNI! It's gonna own, s0n! : Anastomosis
      
      I'm pretty stoked about Ni No Kuni myself. : silverback1138
    - It would appear: http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=29566326 : RaptorII
    - Those in Japan do. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    - My copy of Ni No Kuni shows up today, SO FUCKYEAH! : pixelat3d
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    Japan is a small market. : Lucy Labia
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      It's one of the strongest countries, market-wise. At some points, Japan has competed directly with all o... : eyetyrant248
      
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      It's still an important market but it pales in comparison to North America and Europe. It doesn't seem li... : qwpeoriu
      
      Also other Asian countries like Korea and china are an important market but not sure how well consoles do... : Lucy Labia
  - You forgot Poland. : Vorlonesque
  - Success in Japan doesn't mean what it used to. : greenbergMD
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    thing is, do they even need japan? clearly they tried with xbox, then said fuck it, and just targeting am... : EvilDolemite
    - They spend plenty of money trying to win Japan over. The gigantic Master Chief poster in Akihabara told ... : eyetyrant248
    - It's a big deal. You sell a million and your competitors sell 10 million? Yeah, it's a big deal. It's not... : K1Bond007
- Isn't that what they did last time? : pigvomit
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  Considering that it's more about the software than the hardware (when you have to systems of a 'similar" ... : DragonSire
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    You must hate games, then. The PS3 has God of War, Infamous, Uncharted, Resistance, Jak and Daxter, Ratch : David Craddock
  - exclusives are the most retarded thing ever. i already own a piece of hardware that would be perfectly ca... : xxx2xxx
- more like sony cant afford to go first at the moment, and need to see what can safely be trimmed to minim... : 60days
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  Translation: "our console is nowhere near ready, and we have no money." : AlvinKlein
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    Neither does Microsoft if this is to be believed: http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2013/01/20/... : cetra00
    - Yeah that seems a bit beyond silly. : MacemanInTW
    - That guy is a nut. So much wild speculation and knee-jerk reactions. : Yanks
  - I think they just want another year out of the PS3 and they're hoping Microsoft announces, but ultimately... : K1Bond007
- I am heavily leaning towards the PS4 this cycle if they can fix the controller to be better suited for th... : ant_hillbilly
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  I don't care who comes out first, nor do I care much if I have to wait for a year or two more at this point. I just hope at least one of the devices is just a proper console with a proper, normal controller. Just a 360/PS3 with enough horsepower to run modern games smoothly at 1080p, enough storage space to allow me to buy everything online instead of filling by space with discs I don't need, and a wide selection of online content service support, such as Netflix, out the gates. Silence would be a bonus, as would proper, high quality voice coms out of the box. A decent mic can't cost THAT much to manufacture.
  
  What I do not want is some monster box that sounds like a vacuum cleaner, has 3 displays on the controller and a probe up your ass. Consoles went from gaming devices to entertainment centers this generation, I feel like the next generation should be dedicated to perfecting this concept, not coming up with new gimmicks.
  
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  I don't care who comes out first, nor do I care much if I have to wait for a year or two more at this poi... : ramshot
- Yeah, let's sit back and wait! And then we will release a 599.99$ behemoth that will crush the competitio... : creeping-death
- Since the full text of the interview is behind a pay wall, I don't think we can make any judgement as to... : baron calamity
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  PS3 vs 360 was a draw. #dealwithit : HockeyJohnston
  - Not by a longshot. Perhaps you were too busy playing your Wii. : powerinfused

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