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Sony Boss Says The PlayStation 5 Is No Guarantee

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There was talk not long before the current generation of consoles launched, that these might be the last home ones ever to be made. It was expected sales would be a little low, but obviously we know that is not how it shook out. The PlayStation 4 has blown away everyone's expectations in the sales department.

However, that doesn't mean that PlayStation 5 is a guarantee. Talking to GameInformer (via MCV), Oddworld's Lorne Lanning says that during a dinner with Sony boss Shuhei Yoshida, he planted some doubt over the certainty of a new console.

I interviewed Shu on stage at DICE 2015 and I asked Shu a question – I didn't have time to ask it on stage but I asked him this at dinner a few nights before. I said 'what does the PlayStation 5 look like?' and he said 'you mean if?'. And I was like 'whoa, are you going to say that on the stage?' and he goes 'yeah, it's an if'.

He didn't give me a clear answer but he's hinting at needing to be more agile. None of us know what the future will really look like so how do we adapt to it faster? To me that's the way he was thinking about it, which I think is the right way to think about it.

It's an interesting proposition, and with news of the PlayStation Neo acting as an upgrade for the PlayStation 4, is it possible we just have iterative consoles? There are a lot of questions the console market are going to need answered in the near future.


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