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With Microsoft’s next Xbox being teased to be revealed at E3 2013, Sony may have an uphill battle once again with its PlayStation 4 whenever it’s released. Even though Sony said the PS4 may be years away from being released, it won’t stop them from possibly talking about it a little earlier than expected.

In an interview with emol.com at CES last week, Sony’s Home Entertainment VP Hiroshi Sakamoto may have let slip of Sony’s plans for unveiling the PlayStation 4 some time this year. When asked about Sony’s next console, his translated response was:

“That’s still a big secret. But our friends are preparing PlayStation. I can only say that we are focused on the E3 gaming event, scheduled for June. Announcement may be in that minute or even earlier in May.”

Before this slip, we originally thought Sony wasn’t even ready to talk about the PlayStation 4 seeing how far its release was planned. Now that we know this will be the year we hear about Sony’s next console, we can’t help but really want to play close attention to E3 or any other Sony event going on in the months to come.

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AMD has been suffering a conspicuous brain drain, with executives like ATI veteran Rick Bergman and CTO Eric Demers crossing over to tangentially or directly competitive companies like NVIDIA and Qualcomm. Chalk up another one for the list — strategic development VP Bob Feldstein has bounded towards NVIDIA’s (literally) greener pastures. The blow cuts deeper than usual through Feldstein’s responsibility for graphics in most of the consoles from the past few years: he headed up work behind the Xenos chip in earlier Xbox 360s and the Hollywood core in the Wii, and he likely had some say in the Wii U’s video hardware as well. While the staff shuffle won’t directly affect AMD’s Fusion processors or Radeon cards, it’s hard to see much of a positive for AMD’s future in video gaming, even in the light of rumors that the next PlayStation and Xbox might use some of Feldstein’s work.

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AMD exec behind Wii and Xbox 360 graphics jumps the fence to NVIDIA originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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