PS3 to be Sony's Last Console!?
 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...-legal-dispute

IT seems LG manged to place an injection (banning a product) on the PS3 for 10 days covering all of europe. Sony had been accused of copy right infringement with a device releated to the PS3's Blu Ray playback feature.

So while Sony is trying to get the 10 day continent wide ban lifted. LG is trying to get it extended. If LG wins this case, Sony has to play LG for EVERY PS3 every made sold around the world to this day.

This WILL kill PS4, and there were rumors BEFORE this case stating that Sony may not make a PS4. Making PS3 the final system from the company.


If this really plays out to LG's favor then...

R.I.P PS4, dead before you left out the door.

Also, something about karma
 

Huh, this is interesting news

No please don't, I'm hoping the PS4 will be the one that has better capability than the PS3 and longer durability than the PS2.

back in 2007, sony was going on about how the PS3 would be the most powerful gaming machine for a decade and wouldn't have to come out wiht another one for atleast that time frame.

I really must say, its way too early to tell if the PS4 is dead or not. We must wait a decade!

I really doubt that this will kill the PS4. Actually, something makes me have doubts that LG has a case. Blu-Ray is a non-proprietary format, made by several companies including both Sony and LG. What LG is probably trying to do is lash out against Sony for other things. Like, really? Playback? That thing that should be universal to all units?

Aside from that, Sony isn't just a console manufacturer. They do make other things (or rather, pretty much everything). They already bled hundreds of dollars every unit sold and still stayed in the black.

Basically, the PS4 will come eventually. And by all rights the 10-year lifespan of the PS3 is reasonable, given the Move has replaced the next full console generation. Technology will need another few years to really advance enough to justify a new console anyway. The PS3 is running on a literal supercomputer's CPU.

There's no reason to be calling it done for the PS line.

A dark, dark next full console generation indeed! I wish the PS3 processor was a supercomputer, in that world maybe it would run better than a desktop processor bought like 2 years later!

Was it just Kyanbu saying this is it for the PS line or do articles actually legitimately speculate that Sony won't buy in to the console game again?

can't tell if that post is fanboyism or an actual belief
 

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That shit is hilarious

Blu-ray as a whole might be open for everyone to make, but a specific part or component could be a different story depending. I also know nothing about that or how it would work, but one would think it wiser to be careful first.

Is the problem just the BluRay aspect of it?

Even if it was just the Blu-Ray aspect, they'd probably lose a chunk of customers. I would probably be one of them. Most of my friends are on PC or Xbox, so the biggest pull for me and the PS3 was not only Blu-Ray functionality, but consistent firmware updates for said functionality.

It's based on the possible average sales number of the PS3 so far. And how much money every unit ever sold would come to nearly hundreds of millions of pounds/euro. Though it's mostly speculation and theory on rather or not such a lost would ax the PS4 before it even had a chance.