Sales of Sony's PlayStation 4 have been underwhelming since its release last year, but one executive says the company is already planning for the PlayStation 5. Whether it is a physical home console or not, Sony says that the PlayStation 5 will be focused on games.
Some have speculated
that the release of the PS4 and Xbox One could be the “last generation”
of home consoles, as computing increasingly moves to the cloud, with
processing done remotely and then streamed to home devices. Sony
Computer Entertainment’s executive vice president Masayasu Ito said that
gamers should expect a “next generation” of gaming consoles, including
the PlayStation 5, but said he was not sure whether the next PlayStation
would be a console or not.
“I think there will be a PS5. However, I don’t know what
form it’ll have. It could be a physical console, or it could be in the
cloud,” Ito told the Japanese newspaper Nikkei Keizai Shimbum.
Sony has made a major push to advance its cloud gaming services with the release of PlayStation Now and the $100 PlayStation TV
console, but the company only makes a slim profit on the sale of its
consoles. Sony has sold over 16 million consoles as of the week ending
Nov. 29, according to VGChartz. Microsoft Corp., Sony's gaming rival, has reportedly sold just over 8 million XBox One consoles following sales during Black Friday.
Ito told Nikkei that while the PS5 might be a change of
form, its next-generation games will advance the medium, which is the
company's goal. Sony has reportedly shifted much of its focus from traditional media to its video game platform in the past few months. It will cut back its television and smartphone divisions to focus on PlayStation projects like the Morpheus virtual-reality headset.
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