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"Console life cycles could become shorter, according to Sony Computer Entertainment. When asked whether the PS4 will follow the ten-year lifecycle of previous consoles, UK managing director Fergal Gara said his &amp;quot;gut feel&amp;quot; is that they won&amp;#039;t be as long as they have been.  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;ll definitely be a long life cycle and we&amp;#039;re planning for the future and the sheer scale of the technology announced certainly shows that it should last many years,&amp;quot; he told Digital Spy. &amp;quot;Ten years, yeah, it&amp;#039;s a number that&amp;#039;s picked out but I think it&amp;#039;s interesting to see the PS2 is just being put to bed now, and that&amp;#039;s a lot more than ten years. &amp;quot;PS3 will continue for some period, and will have an excellent year this year, especially software-wise, it&amp;#039;s incredibly well-positioned that stuff that&amp;#039;s announced already and more to come as well. We&amp;#039;ll keep them all going as long as they are viable.&amp;quot; He continued: &amp;quot;But my own gut feel? The life cycles maybe won&amp;#039;t be quite as long in the future as they have been in the past, but they still won&amp;#039;t be short. &amp;quot;I think we&amp;#039;re a very, very long way off ever contemplating a one-year life cycle on this kind of device.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Read DS&amp;#039;s full interview with UK boss Fergal Gara  Sony recently opened official websites for the PS4, while Sony&amp;#039;s Japan president said he has yet to see the console&amp;#039;s final design. Sony is also uncertain whether the console will be available in Europe this year. Revealed earlier this week, the PS4 has been compared to a &amp;quot;supercharged PC&amp;quot;. It features an x86 CPU, enhanced PC GPU and 8GB RAM. New first-party games include Killzone Shadow Fall and Infamous: Second Son. &amp;gt; Read DS&amp;#039;s on-going coverage on PlayStation 4 Gallery - PlayStation 4&amp;#039;s new camera and DualShock controller in pictures:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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