PS5 should be a console that proves that Sony believes in generation to generation – at least that’s what initially the company said on May 2020.
If you forget, this is a reminder of what the CEO of Sony Interactive Enteractive Jim Ryan told GamesIndustry Biz when asked specifically whether the PS5 game will be played on PS4, as proposed by Microsoft with Xbox Series X Games like Halo Infinite:
“We always say that we believe in generation to generation. We believe that when you go to all the difficulties to make the next gen console, that it must include the features and benefits that the previous generation is not included. And that, in our view, people must make games that can take advantage of those features. “
Ryan continues to add: “We believe in generation to generation, and whether it is a dualsense controller, whether it’s 3D audio, whether it’s some way SSD can be used … We think that it’s time to give a new Playstation community something new, something different, which really can only be enjoyed on the PS5. “
Sony’s attitude in the console generation is widely interpreted as this, then: exclusive PS5 is important, need even, and that developers who want to make games for PS5 do not need to worry about being held by older hardware.