Tuesday, October 9th 2018
Sony PlayStation 5 Confirmed: "It's Necessary To Have A Next-Generation Hardware"
Some experts say that the console and PC will be irrelevant very soon: cloud gaming services will make dedicated and powerful hardware unnecessary, but Sony doesn't seem to agree. Kenichiro Yoshida, CEO of Sony, doesn't, and in an interview with the Financial Times he has made it clear that there will be a new PlayStation, although he has not confirmed whether the name of that console will be PlayStation 5.
John Kodera, president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, mentioned months ago in The Wall Street Journal how the company was working on new developments in this area. In fact he mentioned to analysts and investors that in March 2021 PlayStation would "crouch down once" to grow further in the future.
Those statements now join those of Yoshida, who stressed that hardware is still important. In fact he stated that "At this point, what I can say is it's necessary to have a next-generation hardware". Sony may be somewhat conditioned since Microsoft already confirmed that they were working on new generations of their Xbox One console, but that confirmation is in any case important.
Some may doubt the future of a hypothetical PlayStation 5 that will compete with both mobile phones and cloud gaming, but in the past we saw how the launch of the PS4 also faced similar reflections and the console has ended up being an overwhelming success. The same could be said of the Nintendo Switch, although both the PS4 Pro and the Xbox One X do not seem to have generated the interest that their creators probably expected. And yet, the hardware still matters, and Sony seems to have that very clear.
Source:
GamesIndustry
John Kodera, president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, mentioned months ago in The Wall Street Journal how the company was working on new developments in this area. In fact he mentioned to analysts and investors that in March 2021 PlayStation would "crouch down once" to grow further in the future.
Some may doubt the future of a hypothetical PlayStation 5 that will compete with both mobile phones and cloud gaming, but in the past we saw how the launch of the PS4 also faced similar reflections and the console has ended up being an overwhelming success. The same could be said of the Nintendo Switch, although both the PS4 Pro and the Xbox One X do not seem to have generated the interest that their creators probably expected. And yet, the hardware still matters, and Sony seems to have that very clear.
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Beat you to it, just Ctrl+F "60fps ". The numbers speak for themselves. The kind of games that feature 60fps modes too.
the cpu does limit the console in some game your are correct
although over all most people who put it down wouldn't even give it a chance but you would be pleasantly surprised even if linked with a cheap 4k hdr TV
In all seriousness, I would really love to see Sony or MS tackle the portable console market like Nintendo did with the Switch, that's my favorite console by far this gen, and I have invested way more time playing on my Switch than on my ps4 and my xbox one combined.
The fact that I can just play 5 minutes between patients and then resume my game where I left off at my leisure, makes this the perfect console for me.
Don't get me wrong, we need the PS5s and XboxYZs or whatever to play hardcore games, and I don't think console or PC gaming are going anywhere in the foreseeable future, but at the same time, I dream of a portable console able to run games like Forza or God of War or Shadow of the Tomb Raider on the go...
Console will still have a important role; sony realises this. Just by looking at their sales from the past generations (PS2/PS3/PS4) they know they can throw in another next-gen console EASILY.
edit: I don't know why they turn me off really. I just recoil at the lack of power or something. These are enterprise/unix centric dudes who want everyone else to live with a terminal.
Online generated gfx doubles the ping - that would be 50ms for me - what is bad but not unplayable.
However 25 ms ping is a lot better as what most connections are. 100ms ping is not uncommon and this makes gaming already unplayable.
This would double to 200ms...
Average ping would need to go down to 10 ms or bellow. Well - this might be an issue for most connections...
Bandwidth is not a problem - most connection do have the needed bandwidth.