In an interview with CNET , President and CEO of Sony’s PlayStation division Jim Ryan was asked if the PlayStation 5 will be Sony's “last console."

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To this, Ryan responded "Who knows how it might evolve? Hybrid models between console and some sort of cloud model? Possibly that. I just don't know. And if I did know, I wouldn't tell you."Elsewhere in the interview, Ryan discussed the evolution of consoles and their interplay with cloud gaming."This transition is probably gonna be more interesting than any other we've seen in the past. We obviously have one recently announced new entrant into the gaming space [Google Stadia] and the possibility of more to come. So, the landscape is changing fast. If we simply kinda lean back on the world that we've known for the past 25 years, we're at grave risk of having events around us overtake us. So, we have to show an open-mindedness and a desire to do things to an extent that we haven't had to in the past.""One manifestation of that is the memorandum of understanding signed with Microsoft ,” said Ryan. "Which is a kind of wide ranging MOU that covers a number of areas of collaboration between Sony and Microsoft. One of the main ones is cloud gaming. The world's changing very fast and in a very interesting way."We have a cloud gaming service right now, and we've added on it for a number of years. I think maybe we've been a bit guilty of not talking about it enough... We've actually achieved a lot, and probably a lot more than people realize. And our intent is to build on those learnings and really look to try to take PlayStation Now to the next level later this year and then in the years to come."In this same interview, Ryan said narrative-driven games are “not a genre of gaming we'll ever walk away from." Ryan’s words suggest Sony and Microsoft’s memorandum of understanding was possibly in response to emerging streaming competitors like Google Stadia. However, Sony has previously been invested in cloud gaming for quite some time, acquiring the game streaming service Gaikai in 2012 and consistently growing its streaming service PlayStation Now . Regardless, consumers have been able to play PS4 games right on their console since 2013.

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