“Yes PS4” analysts VS. “No PS4” analysts

PS4???How interesting. A catfight among analysts.

In response to Mr. Yuta “No PS4 Anytime Soon” Sakurai, other games industry analysts have come out of the woodwork to – gasp! – disagree and point to a brighter future ahead for Sony‘s gaming hardware division, so reports Next Generation.

Lazard Capital Market’s Colin Sebastian set about to take Sakurai’s analysis down on a couple of points. The management shuffle that made Ken Kutaragi Chairman/CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment and Kaz Hirai the new COO had been in planning for a long time already. That – and Jack Tretton taking over SCEA – should benefit further development on the Cell and Blu-Ray, both of which had troubled pre-launch development.

Then there’s Wedbush Morgan Securities’ Michael Pachter, who called Sakurai’s analysis “naive.” In fact, he sees Kutaragi’s promotion as a step up – rather than as removing him from gaming hardware development. Such a promotion could put him in the pipeline to succeed current Sony CEO Howard Stringer – and when the Daddy of PS takes over the Sony helm, it can mean good things for Sony gaming.

No party-pooping word from Merrill Lynch about the management shuffles and new promotions.

Interestingly, Pachter also thinks that while there will be a PS4, he also believes that the next-next-gen consoles would be upgrades rather than total overhauls of the current standards.

PS4???How interesting. A catfight among analysts.

In response to Mr. Yuta “No PS4 Anytime Soon” Sakurai, other games industry analysts have come out of the woodwork to – gasp! – disagree and point to a brighter future ahead for Sony‘s gaming hardware division, so reports Next Generation.

Lazard Capital Market’s Colin Sebastian set about to take Sakurai’s analysis down on a couple of points. The management shuffle that made Ken Kutaragi Chairman/CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment and Kaz Hirai the new COO had been in planning for a long time already. That – and Jack Tretton taking over SCEA – should benefit further development on the Cell and Blu-Ray, both of which had troubled pre-launch development.

Then there’s Wedbush Morgan Securities’ Michael Pachter, who called Sakurai’s analysis “naive.” In fact, he sees Kutaragi’s promotion as a step up – rather than as removing him from gaming hardware development. Such a promotion could put him in the pipeline to succeed current Sony CEO Howard Stringer – and when the Daddy of PS takes over the Sony helm, it can mean good things for Sony gaming.

No party-pooping word from Merrill Lynch about the management shuffles and new promotions.

Interestingly, Pachter also thinks that while there will be a PS4, he also believes that the next-next-gen consoles would be upgrades rather than total overhauls of the current standards.

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