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have indicated that Sony will have them start production on the PlayStation 4 (PS4) later this year. The new system will reportedly include "body movement-based control like Kinect" and is rumored to release sometime in 2012 with a planned shipment volume of at least 20 million units.
However, it's worth noting that the report has not yet been officially confirmed by Sony and comes just one month after Jack Tretton (president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, a subsidiary of Sony responsible for the company’s PlayStation brand in North America), told Forbes in an interview that, despite being released in 2006, the PS3 was "just hitting it's stride".
When asked by Forbes when he (Tretton) would start talking about the PlayStation 4, Tretton responded,
"PlayStation 3 is really just hitting its stride. And technologically, I don’t think it’s possible to provide any advancement beyond what we have. What we’ve seen from the competition is trying to add features that already exist in PlayStation 3. We invested heavily in that, we rolled a very heavy rock up a steep hill, through the launch period. But now I think that all pays off, and we’ve got a long run way behind it. So, I wouldn’t look for any discussion of a next generation PlayStation for quite some time".
And in response to Nintendo's announcing their next console; the tablet-based Wii U set for release next year, Tretton also stated,
"I think there’s ground to be carved out for everybody. But I didn’t see anything about Nintendo’s announcement that said ‘Oh, we’d better get working on rolling out a new PlayStation here pretty soon.’
Our attitude is kind of ‘welcome to the party.’ If you’re looking at being a multimedia entertainment device, if you’re looking at high def gaming, that was 2006 for us."
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