Despite the PS4 releasing this November, Sony still plans to support the PS3 for a few more years.
Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has revealed in an interview with Games Industry that there’s still life for the PS3. Sony will not abandon the PS3 just because the PS4 is out.
Here’s what he had to say about the topic:
“So we’ll have a parallel strategy with PS3 and PS4, like we had between PS2 and PS3. PS3 was launched in 2006, in the sixth year of PS2, but PS2 lasted for another five years. I don’t know if PS3 will last another five years – but definitely for the next couple of years, because of the price difference, the great library of games and the publisher side being able to support both.
Judging by the sound of that, the PS3 may be on its dying legs sometime in 2017. However, Sony may continue the console well up until 2015 at the latest. The PS2 had a long life releasing in the year 2000, and ceasing production at the end of 2012.
