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Sony remains tight-lipped about the timing of the next generation's debut, but it is dropping some hints about the product's likely shape--or more accurately, lack of shape.
"We're not thinking about hardware,'' said Kenichi Fukunaga, spokesman for Sony Computer Entertainment, the Sony subsidiary that develops and makes the PlayStation. "The ideal solution would be having an operating system installed in various home appliances that could run game programs."
Fueling expectations of a 2005 target date is a chip project between Sony, IBM and Toshiba, Japan's largest chipmaker and co-producer of the PS2's complex microprocessor.
The four-year project, code-named Cell and set for completion in spring 2005, aims to create a powerful processor for home electronics with ultra-fast Internet connections that could, for example, transmit high-resolution moving pictures.
"It's possible PlayStation 3 would come out in 2005, since that's when Sony's Cell project will yield something,'' said Kazuharu Miura, an analyst at Daiwa Institute of Research.
He added that, by 2005, Japan's broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet service will be largely complete and Sony will likely have a clearer idea of what kind of online games people want to play.
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"We're not thinking about hardware,'' said Kenichi Fukunaga, spokesman for Sony Computer Entertainment, the Sony subsidiary that develops and makes the PlayStation. "The ideal solution would be having an operating system installed in various home appliances that could run game programs."
Fueling expectations of a 2005 target date is a chip project between Sony, IBM and Toshiba, Japan's largest chipmaker and co-producer of the PS2's complex microprocessor.
The four-year project, code-named Cell and set for completion in spring 2005, aims to create a powerful processor for home electronics with ultra-fast Internet connections that could, for example, transmit high-resolution moving pictures.
"It's possible PlayStation 3 would come out in 2005, since that's when Sony's Cell project will yield something,'' said Kazuharu Miura, an analyst at Daiwa Institute of Research.
He added that, by 2005, Japan's broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet service will be largely complete and Sony will likely have a clearer idea of what kind of online games people want to play.
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