Recent reports have revealed that the legacy of the PS3 is now dying and consoles such as PS4 and the Xbox One will soon follow. There are speculations implying that Nintendo Switch and the Microsoft's new offering, the Scorpio will outshine and displace the older consoles.
However, some gamers are still loyal to their consoles. For one, the temptation, given the word that Sony put the kibosh on PlayStation 3 production in Japan, is that it's time to bid farewell to the PlayStation 3, but the PlayStation 3 lives on, a contender for as long as Sony's PlayStation Now game streaming service is a thing.
Just under 84 million, that's how many PlayStation 3 units Sony sold worldwide since the console arrived in 2006 and it is also weirdly analogous to the number of Xbox 360s Microsoft sold since its industry-upending Xbox sequel launched a year earlier in 2005, reports the same post.
On a different note, it appears that the PS4 legacy will continue to thrive. To prove the latter, Sony released a new system software update for the PlayStation 4 today, and while the company's official patch notes don't indicate any major changes, eagle-eyed folks may notice that the firmware updated the icons for a bunch of PlayStation services.
The previous PS4 firmware, version 4.55, was released seven weeks ago and also featured a vague description: "improves the quality of the system performance." Sony's most recent major update to the PS4 came in early March, when the version 4.50 firmware added features like Boost Mode for the PS4 Pro and support for external USB hard drives, according to Polygon.
As for the rumors linking PlayStation 3, PS4 and Xbox One, everything should be taken with a grain of salt in mind.