PS4 already announced..

[Kinseykinz]

It certainly makes sense for them to release the game on PS4. It doesn't make sense to talk about it now though as it may hurt sales of the PS3 game.

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If you read the interviews (both gaming site interviews and 'SE sponsored stuff like the Live Letter), the 'what Yoshi P isn't saying is basically this. It would only hurt SE's PS3 audience if they said 'we're planning on releasing it on the PS4 as well...' Not only that, they probably have contracts with Sony that require them to not say certain things. Again, if you read between the lines on some of the gamer site interviews, Yoshi more or less says 'what I can say about it is... or I can't comment on that at this time' type of things.

GE- You mentioned rumors of next-gen and how you hope the graphics will stay up to date. Does that mean you’re looking at future versions of the game on something like PS4 or that you just hope to upgrade the (PC) graphics as the game goes on?

Yoshida- First of all, I can’t really make any comments specific to PS4 since it hasn’t been announced.

As we promised the players, we focused on the PS3 version and we’re getting a lot of support from Sony as well to reach the limits of the PS3. And we have the PC version so it’s quite easy to upgrade the graphics even if the other console has the higher spec. Because we have the windows version it shouldn’t be a problem to bring higher quality to the console. We’re making everything from scratch and that’s the big challenge we’re doing- a first in the world of MMORPGs. Whenever there are other consoles we will do our best. We want to get this game out to as many people as possible, so please use your imagination of how we might go about it.

-excerpt from Gamer Escape interview Link:http://gamerescape.com/2013/02/21/ga...iv-media-tour/

They promised to release this game on PS3. Even if PS4 is slated to be out soon, the reality is, the elevated costs of a new system+lack of games for it mean there will be only a handful of PS4 gamers. Now 2-3 years down the road, it might makes sense to look into porting to PS4. But really, now is so not the time if the goal is keeping promises, keeping people's faith in your brand high, and building a large subscription base.