Sony’s PS4 Coming Before Microsoft’s Xbox Next?

John Carmack thinks Sony’s next-gen console–call it the PlayStation 4 if you will–seems likely to be first to market in the inevitable next generation cycle..noting that Sony going first would probably be to prevent "the same kind of 360 lag from happening to them again."

Carmack says "The whole jockeying for who’s gonna release next gen console first is very interesting and really divorced from the technical side of things. Whether Sony wants to try and jump the gun to, you know, to prevent the same kind of 360 lag from happening to them again seems likely. As developers, we would really like to see this generation stretch as long as possible, you know, we’d like to see it be quite a few more years before a next-gen console comes out, but I suspect someone will wind up shipping something earlier rather than later."