Sony is launching Playstation 4 in 2012, according to reports
Sony and partners will start manufacturing the Playstation 4 toward the end of this year, with a launch scheduled for 2012.
Details surrounding Sony’s PlayStation 4 are very limited for the time being, but reports state that the new console will feature integrated movement-based controls similar to the Microsoft Kinect controller.
Foxconn and Pegatron, the two manufacturing firms assembling Sony’s PlayStation 3, will build the new console.
2012 shipment volume for the PS4 is said to be at least 20 million units. Sony’s PlayStation 4 was not expected to launch until 2013 or 2014, but with Nintendo’s Wii U launching next year and Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox due to be unveiled in 2012 as well, it is possible that Sony accelerated the new console’s development in order to remain competitive.
Sony’s current PlayStation 3 console has sold more than 51 million units globally since its launch in November 2006.
