Sony: “It’s up to developers if they want a PS5”
It is too premature to talk about the PlayStation 5? The PS4 is barely a third into its lifetime, and there are already rumblings of a potential successor.
Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida recently commented on the PS5, saying that it’s up to developers if they want it — if developers need more power than what the PS4 currently can offer, Sony will step up and make a new console.
In a lengthy interview with Re/code, Yoshida was asked if there will be a PS5 in “six or seven years”.
“It’s really up to the game creators,” Yoshida said regarding a possible PS5 console. “If they still feel that we need more machine power, ‘We want to realize this and that and that, but we cannot do it with the PS4’ — if that’s the case, there’s a good reason to have PS5, so that developers can create their vision. So, we’ll see.”
We’re sure that with the rise of 4K gaming in the future, not to mention Virtual Reality which requires just as much (if not more) hardware power, there is a pretty big chance that we’ll see a PS5.
And we’re sure that there isn’t a single game developer out there who couldn’t use more power. You can always use more power.
Sony started working on the PS4 back in 2008 — just two years after the PS3 was released. If the same time frame is used for the PS5, Sony should get work pretty soon.