Sony PlayStation 4 Production This Year

Just last week, we talked about how the PS4 was rumored to unveil in 2012 and launch in 2013. It started with a statement by a “top developer” and we first dismissed it as just another spoke in the rumor mill.

But now more information has leaked. While the reliability of the source is questionable, since DigiTimes can’t reveal the source, they say that Sony has ordered 20 million—yes, 20,000,000—PlayStation 4 consoles to be manufactured between this year and next.

The Taiwan-based partners say that the PS4 will begin production in 2011 with a release date of 2012.

Yes: 2012.

No way did we imagine that it’d be that early, especially with all the nay-saying Sony offered. Remember, they are the ones who said the PS3 just only hit its stride.

More speculation has spread about why such an early release date. Despite Sony reinforcing their statement that the Wii U 2012 launch would not affect the PS4, more whispers on the web indicate that the main gaming companies (Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony) had a deal not to release a new console until 2013. Since Wii U will release next year and the rumors keep spreading about PS4, maybe this is true (they have often said they are in contact with each other).

But some specs were released about the PS4. It is said to have body-movement control, like the Kinect, which seems likely. I just hope they don’t make it the only way to play (that’d be ridiculous).

But, yes, 2012. That goes beyond our expectations.