New xBox and Playstation soon?

EA Labels President has Seen PS4, Next Xbox

COULD A REVEAL FROM SONY AND

 MICROSOFT NOT BE TOO FAR OFF

AUGUST 16, 2012

SONY AND MICROSOFT MAY NOT BE PREPARED TO
 TALK ABOUT THEIR NEXT-GEN CONSOLES, BUT
 THAT DOESN'T MEAN OTHER INDUSTRY FIGURES FEEL
 THE SAME.

At his keynote address during Gamescom's opening ceremony, 
EA's president of labels Frank Gibeau teased that he has
 already seen both the PS4 and Xbox 720.

"I've seen both of them," he said in an address highlighting the
 industry's future. "Ten years ago we used to measure our market
 in terms of 200 million people.Now we are at a billion people
 playing games and we have a straight line view on
 2 billion."

Though rumours about the next generation consoles have been
 swirling for some time,both Sony and Microsoft have remained
 quiet on the status of their next consoles.Despite reports last 
week that Microsoft had discussed the "next Xbox" in an interview,
 the company quickly came out to explain its words had been taken
 out of context.

Whether Gibeau has seen actual working models of the consoles,
 or just early prototypes isn't clear. But could the fact that he's
 referenced them publicly mean that Sony and
 Microsoft may not be far off doing the same?

Gibeau rounded off his keynote by echoing Peter Moore's words
 about free-to-play in the industry, saying, "Free-to-play will become
 the dominant pricing model by the end
of the decade."


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-president-ive-seen-ps4-and-xbox-720