Sony confirms it’s working on successor for PlayStation 4

Anca Alexe 10/10/2018 | 12:32

Sony president Kenichiro Yoshida told the Financial Times that the company is developing a new video games console, claiming “it is necessary to have a next-generation hardware.”

However, he did not say whether the new console would be branded as the PlayStation 5.

The PlayStation division accounts for more than 20 percent of Sony’s sales.

Recently, Sony and other tech firms have been experimenting with streaming games from remote servers as an alternative. The Japanese company allows titles on its cloud-based PlayStation Now service to be played via PCs, and at one time also provided access to some TVs and Blu-ray players, according to the BBC.

Microsoft has just announced Project xCloud, which will allow Xbox One games to be played on smartphones and tablets, while Google unveiled Project Stream last week, which allows select gamers to play the latest Assassin’s Creed game via the Chrome web browser.

All the internet-based solutions face latency issues – meaning there is a longer lag between pressing a gamepad button and getting a response than there would be if the relevant computing tasks were carried out in the same room as the player.

Daniel Dawkins from Gamesradar+ told the BBC that this and other issues meant that at least one more generation of hardware that runs games locally was still to come.

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