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Sony Says PlayStation 4 Successor is Coming, But Doesn't Call it PS5 Yet (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the up-next dept.

Sony's president has confirmed that the company is working on the next PlayStation, but stopped short of calling it "PlayStation 5." From a report: "At this point, what I can say is it's necessary to have a next-generation hardware," Kenichiro Yoshida told the Financial Times on Monday. He didn't give a sense of the form the next PlayStation might take, but FT sources suggested that it wouldn't be a major departure from the PS4 and that its fundamental architecture would be pretty similar. The report suggests Sony isn't quite ready to jump from consoles to cloud-based gaming, even as direct competitors such as Microsoft and potential ones like Google reveal game streaming services.

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  1. Why would they jump? by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >> Sony isn't quite ready to jump from consoles to cloud-based gaming

    Why would they jump? If they can capture the market of people who want "games that work even if the Internet is down" and "games that don't glitch out if it's raining" and "games that work even if gamecompany takes the online version down" then that's a pretty big market.

  2. Re: It's gonna be vastly underpowered ... by mrfaithful · · Score: 1, Insightful

    PC games stop working. You can place the blame anywhere you want, but the upshot is every console game ever released still works on its respective hardware. With PCs it's a total crapshoot what will fail when and whether the "community" cares enough to fix the problem. Just yesterday I found out that "Typing of the Dead" doesn't display the zombies or parts of zombies. The "fix" is to install a version of your graphics card drivers from back when the game released. Great, providing you have a card that was out back then, if you don't you can't install older drivers now can you?

    I could go on forever with the huge number of games I own but can't run; but I won't bore you. The OP's suggestion could actually fix the problem. "This game requires a PC meeting X certification". It wouldn't necessarily fix the backwards compatibility issue, but if I know I just need to build a PC with THIS hardware then that's something. Right now it's more a case of triple booting 3 different OS revisions with different drivers in each on multiple machines with some overlap which makes you think something works but it has spotty compatibility.

    I find the people who think "PC gaming is great!" are the type who only actively play a handful of games, and maybe a bit of nostalgia off gog. They don't have a full Ikea bookshelf of CD jewel cases and the crushing disappointment that they'll have to ebay a voodoo2 because those Glide wrappers just don't cut it.