Will Sony Really Wait Until 2015 to Release a PlayStation 4 Console?

For those of you holding your breath waiting for Sony to announce a PlayStation 4 console and hoping good news would come at CES, take a moment to suck in some air and replenish your lungs. There will be no such announcement at the convention in Las Vegas, and it doesn't look like Sony will be unveiling a next generation game console at E3 later this year, either. So when will we see a PS4?

According to BetaNews, Sony took the unusual tactic of using CES to announce what's not coming, and that's the PS4. Sony Chairman Kazuo Hirai said as much during a roundtable discussion with reporters, while also reiterating that the PS3 is on a 10-year lifecycle. Say what?

If that's true, there won't be another PlayStation console until 2015, or even later. There's still some room left to extend the PS3's shelf life, especially as Sony continues to issue new models with various sized hard drives, motion controls, and whatever other add-ons might be in the pipeline, but trying to squeeze out three additional years or more might be asking a bit much. Or not.

Three years seems like an awfully long time in the world of technology -- and it is -- but every indication up to this point is that the next Xbox model won't ship until 2014. If so, Sony wouldn't be very far behind, and it could always push back the PS4's release if it had to.

Do you think we'll see any major console refreshes by Sony or Microsoft before 2015?

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