I was going to post this in the "are you going to buy a PS4 thread", but didn't want to derail the specific topic of that thread. Anyways, it seems that GTA V isn't coming to PS4 and the new Xbox, at least, not in 2013. Won't this have a huge negative impact on the sales of PS4 and Durango ? I could envision a scenario in which millions of hardcore gamers pick up GTA V at launch, and then get enveloped in playing that game, the same way a huge number of players got lost in Skyrim during it's first 6 months of being out.
If you have this massive, 100 hour game to play, and two new consoles are coming for $500 each (give or take), why spend all that money to buy a brand new console, when you're knee deep in a massive 100 hour open world game like GTA ? Sure, I know there are tons of people that just don't like GTA and other open world type games, but then why would they run out and buy a PS4 to play open world games like InFamous Second Son and Watch Dogs ? The people that do like huge open world games like Infamous and Watch Dogs, will have barely scratched the surface of GTA V, so why run out and spend a huge amount of money ?
Sony and Microsoft are both going to benefit from the release of GTA V, because the game will sell millions of copies on 360 and PS3, and they get the licensing fee for each copy sold, but at the same time, it seems like one of the worst possible situations for them in trying to launch their new consoles.