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

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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Why would they jump?

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

>> 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.

Re: Why would they jump?

[stealth_finger]

Look at all the games on the App Store and playstore..... you see something interesting and download it and you realise they just rehash the same format and rely on loot boxes and pay to win .... or grind to you die model.

There's your problem, stay away from mobile games and free2play games. Maybe best to keep away from the latest generation in general.

Re:First

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

I can't wait to play you online. #Lag

It's got to be a better name than Xbone.

[Grog6]

"What's you do today?"

"I spent the day at my Xbone's house." :D