Cerny: “We don’t say Here’s a Box you Can Watch TV On;” “Huge audience” for Console Focused on Games

PlayStation 4 Lead Architect Mark Cerny is very confident on the potential of Sony’s upcoming console as a machine created primarily for games, and while it can do other things too, he doesn’t have any qualms in identifying the difference with Microsoft’s message

[SkullBlade169]

He does have a point... I have a cable box for TV.

[Riderz1337]

I can't even remember the last time I watched TV...I watch shows, sporting events and movies on my computer lol.

[XabiDaChosenOne]

Lol I don't even have cable XD

[HmongAmerican]

TV is dead for my family. Every thing we watch, we watch it online.

[shivvy24]

same, I only watch tv when soccer or rugby is on, that's it I watch all my other shows on my surface

[MasterCornholio]

I can't even remember the last time I turned on my TV.

P.S I game on my monitor.

Nexus 7 2013

[solid_snake3656]

Only thing I watch on TV is sports. I just don't find anything interesting on TV nowadays.

[frostypants]

Yeah, MS has been pining over the whole "control of the living room" thing for over 10 years...despite the fact that the need for such a thing died several years ago as cable boxes got smarter and DVRs came along. What can the One do that I can't do already with my existing devices? Watch TV and play games at the same time? Why would I pay $500 just to do that?

[Crossbones]

SHOTS FIRED!!!!

[Shellcase]

you sound like that dude hip hop gamer lol

[zeal0us]

Shots being firing since February of this year. Sadly MS has inflicted more damage on itself than it did Sony to be honest.

[Lboogieskells]

Bang Bang - Chief Keef

[danny818]

Cerny's face on the picture ahahah

[Abriael]

It's my favorite of his lol. He looks like a total nerd, and he is :D

@Disagrees: it was meant in a totally positive way lol. Here I thought in our world being a "Nerd" was a good thing. I sure know it is in mine.

[HammockGames]

Every time I see him with this look I get to thinking Dana Carvey could do a mean impersonation.

[Double_O_Revan]

I know. Why did they have to pick a picture where he looks cross eyed?

[Xsilver]

what do we buy Consoles For? Gamesssssssss and i expect you to market it tom me as a gaming machine.

[Shellcase]

Somebody taking shots lol

[kewlkat007]

lol..

[TheFallenAngel]

I really don't watch tv anymore. Just for when Breaking Bad and the Walking Dead is on. Other than that no. Netflix is enough.

[CLOUD1983]

What about Game of Thrones & Homeland? watch those 2 also!

[user7402931]

cerny's pimp hand is strong.

[ajax17]

Lol, bubble for you.

[Xsilver]

ikr

[AgitatedOcelot]

I don't understand the focus on TV when the cable TV model is not far from the same fate Blockbuster suffered at the hands of Netflix.

[Deadpoolio]

Uh NO actually it isn't the people who "stream" Tv on their computer are the minority....Not everyone is into having a computer hooked up to the Tv or watching Tv shows on a computer

[AgitatedOcelot]

Uh yeah that's why I watch them on my xbmc media center after downloading them. Or why many watch them on netflix.

My TV plays netflix by itself, I don't even need to start my PS3 for that. So many devices play netflix out there it's staggering.

Kevin Spacey did an interesting speech about how Netflix is the future of television, and I agree with him.

[frostypants]

Most people don't stream to their PC. They stream to their PS3, 360, Wii, Chromecast, Blu-ray player, etc. Where have you been for the last few years? That said, the One isn't providing anything new on that front.

[webeblazing]

no a ton of people still watch tv. people that stream and dl tv shows are the minority. the thing is most cable and sat boxes give users dvr upgrade for cheap and people now of days record their fav tv shows to watch when they want or can. dvr let tvs shows work around their schedules.

[AgitatedOcelot]

They aren't going to remain the minority. I believe that the cable tv industry as it exists today will be dead in under 10 years.

Either they will have to compete with the netflix model or just die and go under. Governments (Canada for example) are even trying to take steps to force them to change their bundling practices that force 100 dollar a month bills on customers for channels they don't want.

[user7402931]

GO CERNY!

[NewShadow101]

Owned. like i said in other forums, straight to the point. and yea it does those other things you'll spend maybe 10% of your time doing other than gaming greatness.

[Felonycarclub8]

Fatality CERNY wins lol

[jimmyateham23]

All these sony fan boys like the sony staff more than they like their products. Both systems or made for entertainment and if sony was focused on gaming they would of made more exclusives for launch. Just venting....

[Abriael]

Eh, to be honest it's hard not to like Cerny. He's a great orator, a total geek, and a lot of fun to listen to. There's nothing wrong with liking someone.

[scott182]

Doesn't sony have more exclusives at launch? They look like the best quality and most varied in my opinion...

[SCW1982]

Sorry dude but they have been busy making excellent exclusives for there current generation console, it's called the PS3 and it has a game of the year contender that just recently came out. Let me know what Microsoft has been doing for your current console as of late. Oh that's right they took all there games and moved them to the Xbox One to make it look like they care about there customers when in all actuality you are gonna get screwed up the butt just like this generation and last generation. Wish you idiots would learn common cents sometimes. But you keep on sucking that Microshaft and thinking that a couple mediocre scored exclusives means Xbox One is for the gamers.

[jimmyateham23]

@scw1982 no one ever said anything about microsoft i don't know why you brought them up we were talking about sony. Bringing microsoft into the pic only shows that sony has let yall down at launch.

[webeblazing]

who cares about some dude I don't know. yall acting like its a hot chic.

[Back-to-Back]

Well when your an xbox fan and the top guy at your company is Phil Spencer(aka Mr. Fake Smile) I feel bad you.

Why is it all of the top guys at MS at like dbags.

Hirai, Boyes, Shu, Jack T, and Cerny. How can you not like these guys?

[jasonmcee]

Its funny how everyone talks about 720p and 900p games. But from what I have seen Killer Instinct, Dead Rising 3, and Ryse looks better then any 1080p ps4 game. It must not be all about graphics if a 720p game can look better then a 1080p game. Xbox 1 is the future for sure notonly is it about gaming but gives you a multitude of other things you can do with it. And there launch games blow anything away from ps4 by far.I don't care who has more power in the end Microsoft will have a better gaming experience, better ui, better online gameplay, and by the looks of things microsofts xbox1 720p beats out playstation 4 1080p. So who is really better let me see.. Yeah its a no brainer xbox1

[SCW1982]

Ryse looks beautiful but you need to remember a polished shiny turd is still a turd. Oh yeah and ShadowFall says hi.

[Revolver_X_]

Clowns like you and 4show are hilarious. All of a sudden Xbots care about Capcom and Crytek. EVERY Capcom game outside of RE and SF were met with mediocre sales on 360. EVERY Crysis had mediocre sales on 360 as well. As far as KI goes, when does anybody play fighters with the Xbox's sorry excuse of a D-pad? Its funny how every time an Xbot says X1 has better exclusives, they only bring up Ryse. They wont stand by DR3, or subpar KI. Forza5 is meh, only 4show brings it up. I hope SSM has another GoW coming, just so Ryse will be shown as the mediocre game it is.

[quenomamen]

Glad to hear you enjoy 720p, cuz you bout to get more games hitting that wall. $500 so you can enjoy 720p games, yea apparently in MS's future world resolutions will actually go down not up. 4k TVs ? Bah! 480p is where it's at ! I also hear CRT are making a comeback.

[Back-to-Back]

You definately should schedule an appointment with your eye doctor. Contacts or glasses are in your future.

[Shad0wRunner]

No, instead they say "heres a box that you can subscribe to OUR services...and watch TV on."

They completely omitted the fact that there are people out there with tons of media on external HDD's; movies, tv shows, cartoons, music and photo's...that would like the ability to plug those external drives into the PS4, and utilize that media, in the SAME way you can on the PS3. Yeah, I have a PC for that...but my monitor is what, 19 inches and my HDTV is like 47 inches. I want to watch my crap on my TV dammit, not my PC!

I hope someday SOON, Sony adds support for external HDD's like the PS3 does. Otherwise...I have 1TB of media thats limited to a 19 inch monitor. And thats lame.

[Man-E-Faces]

This is what's bothering me Shad0wRunner, but it seems Sony's getting a free pass on this.

[SuperBlur]

you can plug a hdd to do just that , what they meant about not being able to expand the hdd to external drive is you cannot install your games outside of the internal hdd .. or have i missed something ?

[b777conehead]

you haven't missed nothing . that's what it says.

[WitWolfy]

Its simple get yourself a HP N54L and just build your own Media Center. wont even cost you more than $200 to do it.

[ICANPLAYGAMES2]

Is it just me or does Mr. Cerny remind anyone else of Dana Carvey (even a little bit), especially the pic used for this article just a hint of church lady, back on topic why is this getting discussed so much? Just curious.

[Shad0wRunner]

Because Sony, and a lot of gamers out there, feel that gaming consoles should be focused on GAMING as a top priority...media features as a distant second. The one thing Sony learned from this current gen, is that most people rarely used the media features on the PS3...even tho they were there. They found that the majority of gamers made gaming a #1 priority over all else. Sony applied this knowledge when designing the PS4. So unlike the PS3, which was a multimedia machine...Sony has now switched their focus from media, to gaming with the PS4.

This is what the people wanted from Sony. This is what their getting. Why is it being discussed so much? Because once again, Sony has set the standard for which Microsoft and Nintendo to follow and live up to. So when people see the competition doing the opposite...it's a big deal. LOL.

[AceBlazer13]

haven't heard from cerny in a while and the first thing i hear is a reference to ms, lol.

[Sevir]

Is this really a jab, or a point of fact! MS spent 45 minutes unveiling the console as a TV enhancer, Hell, even the commercials being shown now start out with heavy emphasis on watching TV with games being shown afterwards.

The message MS set forward is why people in both the media and general consumers have gone towards Sony.

It's cool MS has it's vision and Sony has theirs, gamers primarily game, MS is going for a different market, but the landscape has changed and The criticisms they get were created from the message they sent out... The Xbox One is less focused on gaming and more on intergrating TV and Sports into the console gaming.

Cerny is simply showing that there focus is gaming. Pointing that out isn't wrong, pointing out MS message and how it's philosophically different from Sony's vision and message isn't wrong, if that rubs you the wrong way then you're a fanboy.

[agame914]

Killer Instinct RYSE and Dead Rising 3 look better then any PS4 launch game? " COUGH KILLZONE" lolololol If you say so buddy lololol must have your beer goggles on homey

[agame914]

Dead Rising 3 looks like its on the 360

[SCW1982]

Okay that's going a little too far. With the amount of zombies being thrown out it definitely doesn't look like 360 but it still has major frame rate issues and doesn't look super polished.

[M-M]

He's not even firing shots, he's just stating the obvious lol. Sony is focusing on games first that features entertainment aspects(it's the last thing they have to worry about, they're an entertainment company lol) while Microsoft is focusing on an all in one entertainment box that does games.

[Lordofrankness]

KillZone is a average fps at best. Nothing special. I'm waiting for infamous. Other than that the MS launch line up beats Sonys by far.

[Back-to-Back]

Clearly.

Killzone 2(91)
http://www.metacritic.com/g...
Killzone 3(84)
http://www.metacritic.com/g...

If thats average to you, you must not play alot of games.

[kingPoS]

Naw! I don't need cable box to watch movies & TV, that's what my internet connection is for