Sony Computer Entertainment President Andrew House explains the reasons behind that lofty estimate of five million PS4 sold by the end of the fiscal year and also mentiones a beta for the Gaikai cloud gaming service.
The path from the PlayStation 1 to the upcoming PlayStation 5 lines up neatly, but only if you’re looking at it numerically. In actuality, for more than 25 years the PlayStation team has had to navigate some of the industry’s most difficult terrain. During that time, a dedicated team of visionaries, engineers, and software developers established a brand from scratch, propelled it to unprecedented heights, struggled to maintain dominance, and eventually returned to what initially made them so successful.
Andrew House is no longer at Sony, but he still thinks that consoles like the PlayStation 4 have big future ahead of them.
I still remember how the misinformed media tried to push a doom and gloom narrative for the future of consoles at the beginning of the decade
Didn't even notice it earlier but PlayStation already has it's own GAAS as part of it's PSN service model. It's "Free-to-Play" games & "Streaming", ala PSNow as part of it's "Adaptive Monetization ", according to Ex-PlayStation Boss Andrew House.
Consoles have successfully existed for the past 46 years and they’ll successor exist for the next 46 years.
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I’m really going to miss this guy. Thank you for your help bringing PlayStation to where it is today.
Well you count my household for 2 of those 5 mil
I hope the gaikai beta starts early 2014.
Will be easily met. This is the biggest console launch in history. And the first time 2 rivals go head to head in the same timeframe. Ashame I have to wait till Janurary.
I bet 5mill on ps4 and 4.6 mil for xbox 1 getting both sweet
Was really hoping the gaikai rollout starts earlier in EU then atleast 2015, not all of EU has poor broadband speeds.
Really looking forward to what they achieve with it though, while we wait :)