When it comes to PS4 rumours, there are plenty to read, digest, and perhaps discuss. However, over at the Playstation HQ, things are quiet.
PS4 Boss, Kaz Hirai, said recently, “we’re not deliberating on a PS4 or a next generation machine, whatever you call it.”
Instead, Sony seems to be concentrating on the PS3 and extending the PlayStation brand into the mobile phone market with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play.
However, in stark contrary, Microsoft is now hiring engineers to spec the next Xbox, rumoured to be named the Xbox 720, but it’s far too early to confirm that.
The latest spec rumour is that the PS4 could abandon the Cell processor and return to x86. Earlier this year there were rumours of a failed Sony research project to develop a PowerPC chip for the forthcoming PlayStation. Our view is that Sony will go with their advanced cell processor that cost a rumoured $3 billion to develop. Here’s why:
- Easy backwards compatibility with the PlayStation 3
- A familiar development environment.
- When the PS4 comes out, games developers will have had much more experience working with Cell and its software tools.
- Toshiba recently sold its Cell factory in Nagasaki back to Sony for £400 million. Sony is hardly going to abandon the chip now it owns the means to manufacture it in bulk.
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