Once the PlayStation 5 hits the market next year, Sony wants to convince players to upgrade to the next generation as fast as possible.
Certainly, it is always in Sony's interest to leave the older generation behind sooner rather than later, in order to fully concentrate on the current hardware and future. Already at the last generation change the PS3 was forgotten quite fast, with the transition to the PS5 one would like to accelerate this process however further.
PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan said:
"These are gamers who are networked and committed and have a passion for PlayStation that we have not seen in previous generations. On the way to the next generation in 2020, one of our responsibilities – probably our main task – is to move this community from the PlayStation 4 to the PlayStation 5 on a scale and speed never seen before. "
Even developers should be convinced faster
Not only the players would like to move faster to switch to the PS5, the developers should this time be particularly easy. For this you rely on the PS5 architecture, which can be programmed according to Sony easier than ever before, presumably because not too much changes in this regard.
"One thing that makes me especially confident, as we hear from developers and publishers, is the ease with which they can get the code up and running on PlayStation 5, and the experience they've had on another PlayStation platform far surpassed. "
The PS5 will be released towards the end of 2020.
