PlayStation 4 Pro var en helt ny slags konsoll for Sony å lage. I likhet med Xbox One X, så er PS4 Pro et slags halvt skritt inn i den neste generasjonen, og en måte å holde mer tritt med forbrukernes behov for bedre ytelse. Selv om Sony enda ikke har opplyst konkrete salgstall for konsollen, så vet vi dog nå at den var en test for deres fremtidige strategi.
I et intervju med Game Informer forteller Executive Vice President of Hardware Engineering and Operation hos Sony Interactive Entertainment (!), Masayasu Ito følgende:
"Indeed, in the past, the cycle for a new platform was 7 to 10 years, but in view of the very rapid development and evolution of technology, it's really a six to seven year platform cycle. Then we cannot fully catch up with the rapid development of the technology, therefore our thinking is that as far as a platform is concerned for the PS5, it's a cycle of maybe six to seven years. But doing that, a platform lifecycle, we should be able to change the hardware itself and try to incorporate advancements in technology. That was the thinking behind it, and the test case of that thinking was the PS4 Pro that launched in the midway of the PS4 launch cycle."
Noe tyder på at PlayStation 5 vil bli oppdatert minst en gang gjennom sin syklus. Er du glad for at Sony muligens vil holde hardwaren oppdatert ved å utgi flere versjoner etter hvert?