{"id":12954,"date":"2011-07-16T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"gamestop-xbox-720-ps4-to-come-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12954-gamestop-xbox-720-ps4-to-come-in-2014","title":{"rendered":"Gamestop: Xbox 720, PS4 to come in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">American video game retailer Gamestop has announced that they don&rsquo;t believe the Xbox 720 and PS4 will be out before 2014. While it seems Gamestop is not giving any indication of inside information, when the industry giant speaks, people listen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">According to Baird, a financial research firm, this prediction came from senior executives during a series of meetings with investors. &nbsp;A statement was released which read: &ldquo;Management does not expect new hardware consoles from Microsoft and Sony until 2014.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">However, Gamestop did cover their bases by adding that &ldquo;a successful launch of Nintendo&#8217;s Wii U in 2012 could add pressure to accelerate a hardware refresh.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">They went on to talk about the Playstation Vita, which Gamestop is enthusiastic about considering what they feel is an aggressive price point of $249 (+-R1770).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Whether their predictions are accurate remains to be seen, but it seems apparent that Nintendo&rsquo;s early next-gen release will be putting a lot of pressure on the competition to speed up production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admits Wii U may change things\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}