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So the PlayStation 4 has been announced and it’s coming later this year. The fact that
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new hardware is on its way raises all sorts of exciting possibilities, but it also draws
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into question the future of PlayStation 3.
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Launched in 2006, PS3 has sold well over 70 million units worldwide, but its heyday is
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rapidly coming to an end.
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Yet, Sony has traditionally supported its “older” console when a new one comes out.
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PlayStation 2 came to market in 2000, but PSone games were released with regularity
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into 2003.
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After PlayStation 3 launched, not only did the PlayStation 2 continue to thrive (it’s
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still the best-selling home console of all-time), but Sony released one of its biggest first-party
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games – God of War II – on PS2 the year after PS3 launched.
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So it should come as no surprise that when PlayStation 4 launches, PlayStation 3 will
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still be in the equation, even if PS4 doesn’t support native backwards compatibility.
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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s CEO Jim Ryan confirms as much, noting that big
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games both known and unknown are in PS3’s future, even with PS4 on the horizon.
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Quote: “We’re actually still selling PS2s in regions such as the Middle East seven years
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after we introduced PS3. There are a number of reasons why the transition might be a bit
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more accelerated this time round, but PS3 is a very important part of our portfolio,
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certainly in 2013, 2014, and probably beyond that.
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”I’d point to the software line-up on PS3 that we have coming up – God of War:
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Ascension next month, The Last of Us, which is looking great, and Beyond later in the
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year. And there’s other stuff yet to be announced which is highly significant, too.
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There’s a lot coming on PS3 and it’s going to be very important to us for some time yet.”
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He could very well be referring to Gran Turismo 6, which his colleague, Michael Denny, let
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slip during an interview recently. But Sony won’t officially confirm that, yet.
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How will you juggle PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in the coming years? Once PS4 comes, will
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you still buy PS3 games? Let me know, and for all your PlayStation news, stay tuned
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to IGN.
