PlayStation 5: The transition from PlayStation 4 could take three years

In an interview with AV Watch, the planning manager of the Sony Interactive Entertainment, Hideaki Nishino, discussed the future of the PlayStation 5, stating that the company has no intention of leaving behind the more than 110 million PlayStation 4 players. To be able to complete the transition to the next-gen console, the company has evaluated having to take about three years, a period in which cross-gen video games will be essential to address all Sony users in a homogeneous way and to be able to take advantage of the power and new features introduced in the new generation platform in the best possible way.

According to Hideaki Nishino, this transition could last as long as three years, a period in which Sony intends to release as many video games as possible on both platforms, in order to blur the boundary between the two different generations of consoles as much as possible. This means the PlayStation 5 launch titles Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Sackboy A Big Adventure e Horizon forbidden west They won't be the only new generation titles to be released on PlayStation 4 as well, but many more will be released over the next few years.

In terms of compatibility it is really important to be able to play PlayStation 5 games on the PlayStation 5, but I insisted that a compatibility future, that is to bring the same titles on both consoles. According to current calculations, the transition from PS4 to PS5 will take around three years. In the meantime, how can I continue to buy games on PS4? Can purchased games be played on PS5? This is important to define. We intend to ask the developers to work on their works with the premise that they are designed for both PS4 and PS5, i.e. cross-gen. Of course, we intend to improve the library to make the transition easier.