With over a year to go before the PlayStation 5 is finally unveiled, Sony has remained fairly tight-lipped about the highly-anticipated console.
Sony has already confirmed the console’s name - PlayStation 5 - and a vague launch date of ‘Holiday 2020’, but hasn’t told us much more about the device.
Now, Jim Ryan, CEO at Sony, has finally revealed new details, during a new interview with GamesIndustry.biz.
He said: “As we move towards the next-generation in 2020, one of our [Sony's] tasks - probably our main task - is to take that community and transition it from PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5, and at a scale and pace that we've never delivered on before.”
Mr Ryan said that Sony is working on several first-party games that could ‘make or break’ the success of the PlayStation.
However, he added that Sony is already ‘hearing from developers and publishers [about] the ease in which they are able to get code running on PlayStation 5’, which is reportedly ‘way beyond any experience they've had on any other PlayStation platform.’
The added details come shortly after Sony finally confirmed the name and launch date for its next generation console.
As expected, the console is called the PlayStation 5 , and will launch in time for ‘Holiday 2020.’
In a blog about the news, Jim Ryan , President and CEO of SIE, said: “Since we originally unveiled our next-generation console in April, we know that there’s been a lot of excitement and interest in hearing more about what the future of games will bring.
“Today I’m proud to share that our next-generation console will be called PlayStation 5, and we’ll be launching in time for Holiday 2020.”
