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Sony and Microsoft are working on their next console releases, and you may be surprised about some of the things we've learned. Sony's project, that the company internally calls the Orbis, is more commonly known as the PlayStation 4, and it will feature tight, feature-rich inclusion with the PS Vita, says gaming blog Kotaku. We suspect Sony may use its traditional naming scheme, but the company may give it its own, original name. Microsoft's project, the other hand, isn't focused on next-gen hardware. Taking a bite from Apple and Nintendo, the company aims for a casual approach to gaming with a console some are calling the Xbox "Lite".
First off, Sony's inheritor to the PlayStation 3 continues the more complicated, in-depth type of gaming that made the platform so damn successful. Expect potent hardware and all that jazz. What has us exhilarated about recent developments is that the next PlayStation is named Orbis internally at Sony, which may be related to the term "orbis vita" or "the circle of life". Does the PS Vita signal the end of life of the PlayStation name? Will Sony's console take on a totally different name?
We don't know, but we would not be stunned either way. There's an excellent chance the name will not affect sales at this point (you know, as long as Sony does not cock up its video-game empire).
Next up, the Xbox "Lite" is Microsoft's secret plot to take over your living room or bedroom (wherever you watch TV, essentially). Priced and designed to battle the Nintendo Wii U and the Apple TV at the exact same time, this compound console/media-center set-top box will permit casual game-players to enjoy Nintendo-like Kinect titles inexpensively. Users could also purchase, hire or stream music, Television episodes, movies and other media thru Microsoft's own stores and perhaps third party services like Netflix and Hulu Plus.
This is a bold move on Microsoft's part, there is, however, obviously a consumer demand for an iTunes-like experience in the TV room. And Microsoft is watching Apple run away with the whole money pie as Sony messes up its advantage of owning music, film and game studios that produce great content that can be sold through digital-media stores. Even Apple doesn't have that advantage.
Hopefully, for Sony's sake, it can leverage its deep reach into industries that Apple and Microsoft don't touch. But now that Apple's the largest company in the world , it may buy flick, music and game studios, so that advantage may not last particularly long.
First off, Sony's inheritor to the PlayStation 3 continues the more complicated, in-depth type of gaming that made the platform so damn successful. Expect potent hardware and all that jazz. What has us exhilarated about recent developments is that the next PlayStation is named Orbis internally at Sony, which may be related to the term "orbis vita" or "the circle of life". Does the PS Vita signal the end of life of the PlayStation name? Will Sony's console take on a totally different name?
We don't know, but we would not be stunned either way. There's an excellent chance the name will not affect sales at this point (you know, as long as Sony does not cock up its video-game empire).
Next up, the Xbox "Lite" is Microsoft's secret plot to take over your living room or bedroom (wherever you watch TV, essentially). Priced and designed to battle the Nintendo Wii U and the Apple TV at the exact same time, this compound console/media-center set-top box will permit casual game-players to enjoy Nintendo-like Kinect titles inexpensively. Users could also purchase, hire or stream music, Television episodes, movies and other media thru Microsoft's own stores and perhaps third party services like Netflix and Hulu Plus.
This is a bold move on Microsoft's part, there is, however, obviously a consumer demand for an iTunes-like experience in the TV room. And Microsoft is watching Apple run away with the whole money pie as Sony messes up its advantage of owning music, film and game studios that produce great content that can be sold through digital-media stores. Even Apple doesn't have that advantage.
Hopefully, for Sony's sake, it can leverage its deep reach into industries that Apple and Microsoft don't touch. But now that Apple's the largest company in the world , it may buy flick, music and game studios, so that advantage may not last particularly long.
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Fausto Mendez is the editor of ReleaseDates.co, a free internet site and email-subscription service that updates its readers only about the gizmos, video games and brands they desire.
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