By Jon Porter
In an interview on Game Informer’s video podcast, Lorne Lanning (the mind behind Oddworld) revealed that a senior executive at Sony had indicated that a PlayStation 5 was a question of ‘if’ rather than ‘when’.
The chief executive in question was Shuhei Yoshida, head of Sony’s Worldwide Studios, who indicated that he saw the future of PlayStation hardware as moving towards small iterative releases, rather than mammoth hardware upgrades every six years.
Lanning said he posed the question before DICE in 2015, to which the response was: “You mean if”. Lorne continues: “[Yoshida’s] hinting that we need to be more agile. None of us know what the future looks like, so how do we adapt to it faster?”
The news comes as rumors surrounding a PlayStation 4.5 continue to grow. The 4.5, or ‘NEO’ as leaked documents appear to call it, would be designed to take existing PS4 games up to a resolution of 4K, rather than the current Full HD 1080p that the PS4 currently outputs at.
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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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