Comments from Sony’s CFO (chief financial officer) Masaru Kato have confirmed that the recently hacked company is already working on developing the successor to the Playstation 3. While speaking on the company’s expenditure for the upcoming NGP handheld Kato said that research and development funds for a future platform had already been budgeted.
As reported at Gamesindustry.biz Kato said, “We have a portable, NGP, to be launched later this year, so we have development expenses to be incurred for this product. And for the home equipment, the PS3, this still has a product life, but this is a platform business…So for the future platform, when we will be introducing what product I cannot discuss that, but our development work is already underway and the costs are incurred there.”
This contradicts Sony’s Kazuo Hirai’s comments from March this year where he stated that Sony was not considering any new consoles while the PS3 was still selling well and while the PS3 is only about halfway through its development cycle. No additional information about when the new hardware is expected or what it will be is available at present.
Brett Venter
