What is Sony's philosophy on console generations?

Sony made the right decision by releasing the God of War sequel on PS4, but conveyed in the wrong way.

[darthv72]

PS5 is still the generational leap we come to expect. But instead of the obvious (resolution and graphics) we get much improved audio, performance, control and even more attention to detail that makes up the total package. The PS5 games are going to push the hardware above what the PS4 versions can do. And the PS4 is getting some of of the best outgoing games it will ever have.

[medman]

Yeah. Right. What about improved AI, larger environments, new gameplay design? I guess us suckers will have to make do with last gen game development on new hardware. Makes perfect sense. Talk about settling for less. Wake up. Games designed to be played on the ps4 are not leading to any kind of innovation on ps5. Period. End of story.

[Paleblood]

This is very simple. We are in a world pandemic. The moment Sony saw that their user base can't move to the PS5 due to all the production problems in this pandemic, was the moment they understood they cannot abandon people on PS4.

For me, what Sony is doing is right thing. We as gamers only care about getting a next Gen game. Sony as a company has to care about all their users in PS4 and PS5.

[zumlauf14]

uh no. These cross gen games were in development on the prev gen consoles before the pandemic. Guerilla for example just came out stating "a lot of the development on HFW was done ON the ps4". You're going to say they just jumped back onto the ps4 mid development a year ago? No. Same goes for Miles Morales.

[NeoGamer232]

That is BS.

They didn't just wake up one morning, look at the situation and say, "Let's ship this on PS4 as well". If they were only making a PS5 version, logically it would've only been capable on PS5.

And you can't take a game mid way through development targeted to a next gen platform fully and target it to an older platform. That is just not possible unless you dumb down the game.

They had this plan all along. They were just confusing in their marketing. I don't know why anyone is shocked at this. It is obvious that for the first couple years this gen that games would target previous platforms as well. Sony just was not clear in their marketing here.

[medman]

There was nothing "obvious" that the "first couple years this gen would target previous platforms". Quite the contrary....every single previous Sony console took a different tact, not to mention Sony talking heads saying their belief in console generations differed from the approach of other companies. This is new for Sony, and it's disgustingly disappointing.

[medman]

My bad I responded to wrong article wrong comment. Apologies.

[chicken_in_the_corn]

Looks like they're not into generations anymore. PS5 is just another PS4