The switch in Sony's focus to the PlayStation 4 has been much more dramatic than in generations past. Those of you with strong memories may recall the PlayStation 2 selling almost 50 million units once it had been succeeded, but the PlayStation 3 has fallen away in almost all territories outside of Asia. This is something that the company alludes will continue.
"There is no doubt that at this stage, and with the success that we have enjoyed globally, that our focus is on PS4," said SCEUK boss Fergal Gara as part of a wide-ranging interview with MCV. "There is more that we could do with PS3 on a promotional level, but don't expect us to do anything near to what we are doing with PS4, because that is the future."
Gara explained that the PS3 was a "heavily engineered machine", which means that we're unlikely to ever see the system hit budget prices like the PS2 before it. "It will certainly be around for this year and beyond, but don't expect it to have anywhere near as much focus in the UK as PS4. The gap between the two is very, very wide," he concluded.
Ubisoft has just announced that it will no longer be making games outside of its casual properties for the previous generation platform, and we'd expect other publishers to follow suit soon. The console currently costs around $230 in the United States with a couple of games included – it's a shame that it can't get it down to around $150 or less, as we reckon that there are still sales to be made.
[source mcvuk.com]
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Kinda natural to want ot move on, especially with those record breaking sales. People who had not the pleasure to own a PS3, have still a lot of reasons to buy one, too mmany games with great prices.
Awesome console with an enormous backlog for people to enjoy if they need more time before jumping to next gen. All I ask is they keep the free servers running for as long as possible and still give us the episodic games from telltale and dontnod for us to purchase and I'm perfectly fine with this news. The way I see it, PS3 already went out with the perfect bang two years ago with TLOU. Still an amazingly underrated Sony console
PS4 is now the focus of....remastered PS3 games
@BertoFlyingFox I was just about to say that. It seems that they're just re-releasing the PS3 goodies on the PS4. This is kind of good for the ones who didn't back up the PS3 and now back up the PS4 though...it's a good way to have them play the great ones that they missed, plus, I'd still love to see the first three Uncharted games as a collection for PS4 with updated graphics.
and so it should be, it's been a few years now since the PS4 released so why look to the past
With this, I hope the store still remains for a while on the system, as there's still games I'd like to buy and enjoy. I have too many games for this system, so it's still going to be plugged in for many years!
Its obvious that gen 7 consoles are being phased out by the manufacturers and that support/promotion etc will dry up. Its only natural that Sony are likely to be promoting and supporting the PS4 now - I can't believe that anyone doesn't know what the PS3 is or have any idea of some of the games that are available.
Its no surprise either that the releases for the Gen 7 consoles are drying up too. Looking at the release schedule of 2015, I can't think of any that are solely for Gen 7 (no gen 8 version) but I can think of quite a few gen 8 only.
I know that there are more Gen 7 consoles in circulation but it seems that in terms of software sales, Gen 8 sales are exceeding those of Gen 7. The last game (I can think of) that had a multi-gen release was Battlefield: Hardline and according to EA 80% of sales were on Gen 8 consoles. Its costing some developers more to make games for last gen too as often these require another studio to 'port' the game down.
@JLPick @BertoFlyingFox - Yeah, me 3, mine goes something like this:
Of course PS4 is the focus now, they've run out of PS2 games to remaster and repackage on the PS3 so now they have to focus on remastering and rebooting those PS2 games onto the PS4 - see Ratchet and Clank.
So I guess that's it for the MLB games on PS3
Actually the title should be
Sorry PS3 and Vita, Sony says PS4 is very much the focus now.
I still believe the PS2 was supported for so many years after PS3 arrived because the latter took its sweet time to take off. Not to mention Sony wanting to make that sales record as huge as they could.
With this said, my PS3 has a long time ahead for me. Mine is 6 years old this September and I still have a lot of games I haven't touched. Should get Bulletstorm, Far Cry 4, Portal 2, among many others.
@sinalefa @JLPick @LAdrew87 Same here, my PS3 game backlog is ridiculously big .
I own 130 PS3 games, but I've only beaten 53 of them so far .
I still plan on buying alot more PS3 games too, lol xD.
@ToddlerNaruto yeah see I feel like that's the best attitude to have toward the whole situation. So many games to enjoy, they don't need to worry about giving us crappy ports of games that should only be on new gen consoles. I've finished most of the ps3 games I own but there's still quite a few I'd like to play so I'm still fully satisfied. Many games, especially exclusives, still look amazing on that 9 year old hardware! I think ps3 will age well into the future particularly it's many exclusives
I like my PS4 but my heart is still with the PS3. I have a huge library of games still to play and every time I turn it on I am greeted by my very own theme creation and all my games neatly in folders. That makes me smile... (that and my theme. )
How about allowing us to have backwards compatibility on the ps4 then, would be nice to play the games we bought on ps3 without having to change systems
@fatemaker not heard of playstation now? It's great I've just finished puppeteer n starting beyond two souls
@LAdrew87 Thanks for the positive reply, and I do agree with you on most points .
Let's have a moment of silence for the PS3
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