According to the Wall Street Journal Playstation 4 (PS4) will be released in Japan as early as 2013. in other markets may be the beginning of 2014. Sony reportedly working on a system which will require a permanent connection to the network, the game would be on the server and we had to sort of console that would allow the terminal to connect to the selected production and playing it. Apparently this idea, however, fell because of varying bandwidth Internet connections in the world.