Jakarta - Pertarungan di pasaran konsol game antara Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation dan Xbox besutan Microsoft rasanya bakal terus bertahan lama. Demi memenangkan persaingan, generasi masa depan ketiga konsol game itu tengah dipersiapkan oleh produsen masing-masing.
Menurut analis industri game dari Lazard Capital Markets, Colin Sebastian, konsol game Sony Playstation 4 dan Xbox versi terbaru yang sementara ini diketahui bernama Xbox 720, kemungkinan akan dikeluarkan tahun 2011 atau 2012.
Belum lama ini juga sudah berkembang berita bahwa Nintendo sedang serius mempersiapkan Wii generasi baru menyusul kesuksesan besar Wii edisi perdana. Masih menurut Sebastian, upgrade Wii kemungkinan berupa kapabilitas DVD dan kapasitas penyimpanan yang besar.
Pendapat Sebastian tersebut juga diamini oleh presiden perusahaan pengembang game Crytek, Cevat Yerli. Menurutnya, seperti dilansir RegHardware dan dikutip detikINET, Senin (1/9/2008), Playstation 4 dan Xbox 720 memang bakal meluncur antara tahun 2011 atau 2012.
Pendapat tersebut tampaknya berpedoman pada jangka waktu peluncuran konsol game yang biasanya berjarak antara empat sampai enam tahun. Sebagai contoh, Playstation 3 diluncurkan enam tahun sesudah Playstation 2.
Memang belum ada pernyataan resmi dari Nintendo, Microsoft atau Sony soal kepastian peluncuran konsol terbaru namun pastinya, mereka tengah bersiap. Sejak tahun 2006 misalnya, Sony yang diwakili VP Sony Entertainment Europe, Paul Holman sudah mengkonfirmasi mereka segera mengembangkan Playstation 4.
While Sony already admitted to be thinking about the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo are no doubt developing a Wii 2… In an interview with the head of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business division, Peter Moore, EGM magazine asked him when their next video game console would come out, and also asked if they’d drop support for the Xbox 360 like they did with the original Xbox. He said that they were going to support it “as long as it sold.” Possibly because they saw the Xbox sell well into 2007 despite not producing the console after October 2005.
He said the production team from the Xbox 360 is working on the next Xbox 720 [our pet name], and their looking into what kind of CPUs will be available on the market in 2011-2012. That would put the Xbox 360 at a lifespan of 6 or 7 years, a far cry from the Xbox’s 4 years. After spending $1.26 billion in losses launching the Xbox 360, they’ll want to get the most out of the system by lengthening its lifespan. As the longer you get into the cycle, the more profit you can make due to stopping being a loss leader, analysts always remark.
On June 13th, 2008, Robbie Bach — the President of Entertainment & Devices Division at Microsoft — mentioned the next Xbox by saying: “Our view is we will be selling Xbox 360 for a long time. We are always working on new technologies. We have people working on those. People ask me how many people I have working on the next generation. On the one hand, it’s everybody. On the other, it’s nobody. People are continuously working on new technology.
We started thinking about the next generation before we shipped the Xbox 360. It doesn’t start with a date. It starts way upstream with silicon development. From that comes a series of data points. You start making early technology choices. It’s an evolving thing. Stuff doesn’t become concrete until you get inside a window of when you have to ship, more than 18 months or so out.”
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A new Playstation 4 could be less than 18 months away according to a Sony insider. The device will include the same chipset as the current PS3 but where it will differ from the current model is in the drive bay and in the attachment area. It will also include an extensive software suite for the managing of content being streamed to a TV or Hi Fi source.
In addition Sony is working on improving the output experience so that the device can become a true home entertainment centre eliminating the need for a media centre. "We have even looked at a Sony home server based on Playstation technology. This would allow consumers to connect home automation devices to the Sony server while also delivering online gaming and access to an extensive movie and music library" said one Sony source.
Ken Kutaragi, the retiring chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment said in an interview last week that he clearly understands how the PlayStation game consoles should evolve in the next three generations, or fifteen to twenty years from now. He also said that in future it will be possible to create fully Internet-based game consoles.
"As a matter of course, I have the vision of PlayStation 4, 5 and 6, which will merge into the network," Mr. Kutaragi said. Earlier this year when Kazuo Hirai became the second president of SCEI and chief operating officer, some analysts said that Sony may not launch yet another game console and the PlayStation 3 may become the last one. On this Mr. Kutaragi, who is also known as "the father of PlayStation", says that future consoles may be network-based, which automatically reduces the cost to build such machines.
"The design concept of the Cell processor is the network processor," Mr. Kutaragi said. "When the PS3 was introduced last year, the network environment was not ready for a net-based game console. Now it has become possible, so why not enter?"
The outgoing leader has faced a lot of criticism from observers for the PlayStation 3, the latest game console by Sony Group, as the machine is expensive to manufacture despite of the fact that initial batch of games are unlikely to become bestsellers. At the same time, technical advantages of the arch-rival – Microsoft Xbox 360 – and difficulty to develop games for the Cell processor used in the PlayStation 3 have resulted in losing exclusive titles with game developers.
Kazuo Hirai, who is believed to have better relations with game developers than Ken Kutaragi may fit very well into the Internet-based game console strategy, as technical capabilities of game consoles may play much less significant role going forward.
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