News

Kutaragi hints at his vision of PlayStation 4

You are here: blasteroids.com / news / kutaragi hints at his vision of playstation 4 /

Latest news | News archive | Search news

Not registered yet? Register here.

DVDBack23 @ May 01, 2007 17:40 | 46 comments

Ken Kutaragi, the creator of PlayStation, has revealed that alothough he is retiring in June, he already has a vision for the PS4 and even the PS5 and 6.

According to his interview with the EE Times, Kutaragi said he was unable to talk about the "next step" until now because the PlayStation 3 had not been launched worldwide yet.

"We've introduced PS3 in Europe, so now I can openly talk about future plans", he continued.

"As a matter of course, I have the vision of Playstation 4, 5 and 6, which will merge into the network."

In the interview, Kutaragi also said that he had supplied Sony's designers with a few ideas to cut the cost of manufacturing the current PS3s.

He is now focusing on exploiting all the opportunities offered by connectivity saying "The design concept of the Cell processor is the network processor."

Although Kutaragi announced his retirement last week, in the interview he stated that he will continue to have a relationship with Sony, but for the most part, he will be working independently.

As he said, "Now I'm ready to start working with a much wider world."

Source:

EETimes

Previous Next

Comments

There are more user comments available, read them here

Comment by: cascadeuk (May 02, 2007 06:12)

hahaha, He kills the playstation franchise and now he expects us to listen to his plans for the future

Comment by: ChromeMud (May 02, 2007 08:34)

It's a shame Ken has gone because I thought he was hilarious.
'Toy Story Graphics','2 HDMI output for dual screen display at
1080P 120fps',2 Teraflops total power,double that of 360'.
Comedy Gold all the way.
It's a sad day to have to take Sony serious from now on.

Comment by: ZippyDSM (May 02, 2007 09:07)

Originally posted by ChromeMud:
It's a shame Ken has gone because I thought he was hilarious.
'Toy Story Graphics','2 HDMI output for dual screen display at
1080P 120fps',2 Teraflops total power,double that of 360'.
Comedy Gold all the way.
It's a sad day to have to take Sony serious from now on.

not really look at their euro PR depo always a laugh there :X

Comment by: ripfuel (May 02, 2007 09:40)

Quote:
Originally posted by eiffel65:
Jesus! They're already planning more PlayStations? How many do we need in this world???
1 every 4-6 years at least.

I 2nd.

Comment by: Goob13 (May 02, 2007 11:53)

ps4 is gonna be sick!

Comment by: plutonash (May 02, 2007 16:40)

ps4 is going to make me sick

Comment by: vinny13 (May 02, 2007 16:40)

Quote:
In the interview, Kutaragi also said that he had supplied Sony's designers with a few ideas to cut the cost of manufacturing the current PS3s.

There's a price cut just around the corner!

Comment by: djeazyg (May 02, 2007 16:45)

At least Sony is thinking of future consoles instead of re releasing the same console over and over again and charging a higher price for it. I don’t see Sony doing a PS3 Elite. If MS put as much concentration into whatever the new Xbox will be called instead of the (2 years old) 360 they could have a console that would put anything Sony could even "think" of doing to shame. For now all they have is a older and weaker console that (for now) has more games and is cheaper.

You people and the no games thing. Bash Sony about the game thing after the PS3 is out for a year or more. Relax.... They're coming. I’m sure Sony knows they screwed up. I was dead set against the Xbox until Sony botched the launch of the PS3. I wanted to play games and I wanted to play them now so I had to get a 360. I couldn’t be happier with it. Sony is real close to losing me as a customer but I’ll pass my total judgment after a year or so to give them a chance to fix the issues they have. Until then I’ll play my 360 and keep a cover over my PS3 so it don’t collect a whole lot of dust.

Comment by: thekingo7 (May 02, 2007 22:53)

Why do we keep going with the playstation name why cant they come up with something new. For ex. Gamestation. even taht is more exciting.

Comment by: svtstang (May 02, 2007 23:26)

Gamestation?? Ill pass!

It is within the forum rules ddp, i swear!! :P

Comment by: thekingo7 (May 03, 2007 00:16)

lol, well it was just an example, albeit a lame one.

Comment by: borhan9 (May 03, 2007 04:18)

How about this for the name for the next console.

All copyrights are reserved by me if anyone wants it i want my royalties :)

Quote:
THE DREAM MACHINE

(c)borhan9 3/5/2007 6:20pm Aussie Time :)

Comment by: scorpNZ (May 03, 2007 05:41)

Gotta agree with ZippyDSM tho it'll be the only time :p

Comment by: hughjars (May 03, 2007 18:28)

.....and didn't they already say it would not have a BD drive? :P

Comment by: WierdName (May 03, 2007 19:02)

That was pretty stupid of them to even acknowledge that they were considering one. Now a lot of people wont get a 3 cuz they think that a 4, 5, or even 6 is around the corner.

Comment by: svtstang (May 03, 2007 19:24)

Quote:
How about this for the name for the next console.

All copyrights are reserved by me if anyone wants it i want my royalties :)

[quote]THE DREAM MACHINE

(c)borhan9 3/5/2007 6:20pm Aussie Time :)[/quote]LMAO

It is within the forum rules ddp, i swear!! :P

Comment by: borhan9 (May 03, 2007 19:30)

@svtstang

Glad you liked it :) LOL!!!

Comment by: ZippyDSM (May 03, 2007 20:02)

Originally posted by WierdName:
That was pretty stupid of them to even acknowledge that they were considering one. Now a lot of people wont get a 3 cuz they think that a 4, 5, or even 6 is around the corner.

really....I haven't got a PS1 becuse a PS6 will be out in my life time.....oy vay....

Comment by: WierdName (May 03, 2007 20:53)

Quote:
really....I haven't got a PS1 because a PS6 will be out in my life time.....oy vay....

Comment by: scorpNZ (May 03, 2007 21:30)

No,take myself for instance i won't buy either new consoles now simply because i don't want to pay those prices,but i'd love a 360 as i like halo,so i'll end up getting the game when it comes down in price as well as a console for the same reason,you have to remember also the upgrades for the 360 and PS3 have'nt finished either

Comment by: dragondog (May 03, 2007 23:33)

4 5 6? wth... 3 is a good system if only it worked right and was lower on price y talk about 4 let alone 5,6 i sudgest fixing the ps3 bugs first, their getting too bigheaded...yes sony is a great name and thats mainly what i buy but damn take a chill pill worrie bout ps3...........so far every ps3 i have played froze up on me real quick...even the stores display systems are froze and iv been to alot of stores.....out of all the ps3 iv seen out of the box only one was working fine and i didnt even get to play it myself.

as for a 360 i have one and i love it graphics are would like to compare ultimate alliance....have GoW and all i got to say is WOW...
the tv or monitor used to play these games help alot too...have a 52 wide HDTV plasma....game looks so life like i get nightmares bout it jk

Comment by: ZippyDSM (May 03, 2007 23:37)

Quote:
[quote]really....I haven't got a PS1 because a PS6 will be out in my life time.....oy vay....

What I meant was that people with a PS2 that are passive gamers probably would wait if they think that Sony is already thinking about PS4. That means Sony will probably not be putting as much effort into PS3 updates and such if they move their priorities over to development on PS4. I'm just saying that one would think that PS3 will soon be outdated if they know that Sony is already considering how to make a PS4. I'm not saying that just because there will eventually be a PS4, that people wont get a PS3.[/quote]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for being clear ^^
however the PS4 is years off (like 4-6) and I have a feelign the Xbx 2 is 3-6 years off so in 5 or 6 years welcome to the 8th generation of gameing or whatever.them stating they are planing out another one is simply fact since console lines are remade every 4-7 years.

to me the PS3 is a strong system if they don't lower the price its going to have issues but one that price goes lower than 510$ it will sale reasonably well and then they can rebuild on it I doubt sony is dumb enough to bring out a "patch it console" PS4 like PS3 but minus BR that would kill them for sure,the PS3 is near prefect all it needs is a 30% price drop and more games.

Comment by: xaznboitx (May 03, 2007 23:41)

I think this link is just fake. I read other places and he didnt say anything about PS5 or PS6. All I read was that the PS4 may or may not be out 2010.

Comment by: WierdName (May 04, 2007 01:08)

@ZippyDSM
I'm just saying that common folk would use that logic. Personally, I dont think sony would be so stupid as to move to PS4 production when the PS3 has only been out for less than a year.

Comment by: ZippyDSM (May 04, 2007 01:14)

Originally posted by WierdName:
@ZippyDSM
I'm just saying that common folk would use that logic. Personally, I dont think sony would be so stupid as to move to PS4 production when the PS3 has only been out for less than a year.

---------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't think the sheeple are that dumb,as bad as they are they tend to be bad but in other ways

======================================================================

Originally posted by xaznboitx:
I think this link is just fake. I read other places and he didnt say anything about PS5 or PS6. All I read was that the PS4 may or may not be out 2010.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
I am not to shocked at what he says hes like a cheff part of a elite team that prepares meals hes a bit "eccentric" he dose well at what he dose but tends to piss others off at what he says and what he dose,this time he got to lead the team and few a fancy pricey meal to someone that just wanted a top qauilty hamburger fries and soda.

All in all its his job to work on and plan out a couple consoles ahead yes even 3 or 4 you have to put the look together sometime then build specs when you the tech is avalibale to you.
======================================================================