Sony Ready to Launch PlayStation 4?

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Published

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There are more rumors that Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) will launch a PlayStation 4 model, perhaps as early as this month.

The PlayStation was once the leader of the game console business, but sales have been damaged badly by Nintendo and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) products. And Sony faces the problem that game consoles may have become obsolete as games move to tablets and smartphones. Also, some of the time gamers spend online is devoted to products from firms led by Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA). Nintendo recently released a new version of its products, and sales so far have been disappointing.

According to Asahi Shimbun:

Andrew House, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., will announce the launch at the PlayStation Meeting 2013 in New York on Feb. 20.

The PlayStation 3, at the time an industry standard, debuted in 2006.

Specifications are as yet unavailable, but the PlayStation 4 is believed to draw on high-performance graphics chips that produce faster images with greater detail.

This could make the console suitable for cross-discipline use, possibly for downloading and playing music and videos with greater speed and fidelity than on smartphones and personal computers.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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