Sony held a Corporate Strategy Meeting in Tokyo where Sony’s President and CEO Kenichiro Yoshida talked about their future plans for the Playstation 5 as well as PlayStation’s future.
Yoshida describes the future direction of PlayStation as “immersive” and “seamless,” as they want customers to play at anytime and anywhere.
The next PlayStation console will have improved graphics and rendering speed through a new SSD. It’s speed has been demonstrated as they used Marvel’s Spider-Man’s loading speed as an example. They showed that the PlayStation 4 Pro took 8 seconds to load while it only took the Next-Gen console “PS5” 0.8 seconds. Not only that, the game rendered the textures and models perfectly as the camera speeds around without limitation.
Yoshida explains that the, “extraordinary improvement in rendering speed” demonstrates why a next-generation console will “greatly exceed” what is possible on PS4 and PS4 Pro.
Among other features Yoshida wants users to be able to seamlessly bring their games from a TV to any other place and continue to play anytime and anywhere. This is brought up with Remote Play and PlayStation Now.
The ability to play games from your PS4 to your PC has been worked on for a while with Remote Play and they plan on using it with Android devices as they move onward. Additionally, the next-gen console will include this feature as well.
Sony has also learned a few things in order to strengthen the service of PlayStation Now. First off they need to improve their networking if they need to stream games anywhere and anytime. People want to play more games with a bigger library. It’s also because of this that they wish to include AAA titles to the streaming catalogue.
Overall Sony plans to, “continue to improve the user experience on PlayStation by leveraging the latest computing, streaming, cloud, and 5G technology.” While doing so they mention their partnership with Microsoft. Because of this Sony says that they wish to strengthen their first-party content while improving relationships between them and third-party developers while making PlayStation the, “best place to play.”
