Sony Exec: “I Think There Will Be a PS5;” Doesn’t Know if it’ll be Physical or Based in the Cloud

Sony Exec: “I Think There Will Be a PS5;” Doesn’t Know if it’ll be Physical or Based in the Cloud

Giuseppe Nelva December 19, 2014 4:21 PM EST

With every generation of consoles, there’s always someone prophesying that it will be the last. At least according to Sony Copmputer Entertainment Executive Vice President Masayasu Ito, there will be a “next generation” for PlayStation, as he told to the online version of the Nikkei Shinbun.

I think there will be a PS5. However, I don’t know what form it’ll have. It could be a physical console, or it could be in the cloud. But even if the form might change, PS5 Games will be born. This is what we want.

It’s reassuring to know that Ito-san is confident in the fact that this generation won’t be the last, even if it’s probably too early for Sony to know for sure what form it will have.

Personally, I definitely think that there will still be physical consoles in the next generation, including the next PlayStation. I seriously doubt even in ten years from now phone lines worldwide will be efficient enough to support major platforms fully based in the cloud, but the powers that be will ultimately be the ones making the final call. Gamers will vote with their wallet.