Update: Everyone calm down and carry on: Sony has confirmed that it's fake.
What the hell is this video? It seems it's a viral for Sony's PlayStation line. Kotaku says that it popped up this weekend.
It shows some scientist-looking people frantically running through the S.C.E. Principal Scientific Research Laboratory, Minami-Aoyama, in Tokyo, Japan. They run through hallways (shakycam -- ugh!) and finally find themselves in a room where a guy with what looks to be wearing 3D glasses is lying on the floor, frozen, mouth agape. They try to take away his controller but he starts screaming. Then the video shows some test bars with the text "PS4 V.3.1 - shibraku omochi kudasai" which means something like "please wait for awhile."
Before you start jumping to conclusions, know that we have no idea where this video came from. It does prominently name Sony and show PlayStation logos and what looks to be the same 3D glasses Sony uses for their sets and hardware, but anyone could have put this together.
If this is real, what is it trying to promote? 3D gaming? I don't think it does a very good job, if so.
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1:20 PM on 06.07.2010 | 
Also, stupid video.
But yes, a new console would be a fucking waste of the already great hardware they have. And I'd be pissed and wouldn't buy it. I've already bought 2 PS3s.
I really do think that it is a way for them to say that there is no plans for the PS4 in the near future.
@eternaldeathslayer - the ps3 does have a technically inferior gpu, but it's a modded 7800 nvidea, but performs far better than the 7800s. We keep seeing games get better graphically, killzone 2 -> uncharted 2 -> god of war 3. We'll see what the next has in store. But you're probably right that we won't see a major difference between now and the end of the lifespan.
As for 360, while it technically has a better gpu base, we haven't seen 360 games look any better for awhile and they're still a ways behind killzone 2.
lol
Mines been running strong (80bc, just upgraded the HD to 500gigs (100bucks, same seagate as the original hd) I love sony :) knock on wood.
pretty wacky vid btw, did anybody translate, nothing interesting??
My two cents.
Damn you, Vanquish trailer.
But yeah, they can keep their 3D crap for the next...um...6 or 7 years AT LEAST!!
Anyway this thing is probably not real, and I will just look like a dumbass ranting.
five hundred and ninety nine dollars...
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