Sony Wants A Faster Shift From PS4 To PS5 Than In Previous Generations

Well duh.

They'll get me on board sooner if the price is right, and the launch lineup is decent. PS+ offerings needs to be improved. Give me a controller with longer battery life. Doesn't need to be as long as dual shock 3's but at least twice as long as DS4.

If they do all the right things, I'll be in on day 1.

I don't care about BC but since it's just a more powerful PS4, PS4 BC will be thrown in basically for free and there's no reason not to.

I'll be plenty happy to upgrade to a PS5 when it comes out, provided it has one thing: backwards compatibility.

They can do it easily by making it very affordable. We shall see.

I do not own a ps4 and I must say I'll be very happy to own a Pro when it drops to 300 dollars. Good library and lower price on games.

Also, buying a console in the first year is never the best choice. First model number always have problems not seen until mass production. Even if I had the money to buy it I would wait for a revision model.

They're taking a huge gamble if they think simple loyalty and bc will achieve those results. Personally, I've owned every PlayStation system (except PSP) and given Sony's new censorship policy and Western gaming focus these days, I'm considering going somewhere else next gen.

I used to pick PlayStation consoles because they had a nice split between niche Japanese content and third party Western titles, but now Nintendo seems to have taken over that market and Sony wants to focus more on Western games.

If I do ever decide to pick up a PS5, it'll be several years after launch, and only if Sony stops over-censoring content needlessly, with a PS5 pro model.

if it's priced well and has good hardware.

Sony won this generation less because they did much right and more because Microsoft did so much wrong, at least at the beginning there. If the One had equivalent hardware to the PS4 and if MS hadn't tried their digital check-in and Kinect nonsense, Xbox would probably still be on top

All Sony has to do is capitalize on the goodwill they've built. They learned a lot going from the PS2 to the early days of the PS3, so I doubt they'll make the same kind of mistakes again

I have absolutely no loyalty to Sony so I don't intend to buy a PS5 as soon as it comes out, especially when more powerful and efficient models are likely to come out. The last thing I need is another system that runs the newest games terribly because they were "enhanced" to work with newer model.

Gonna wait a few years. Wait for the games to come out and all.

The only time I’ve ever jumped to a new console on day 1 of launch is when there was backwards compatibility. I can sell my previous console and buy the new version without sacrificing my game library I’ve built up. And then I can play those games plus a new game or two while the new console starts getting a solid library.

The console I waited the longest before getting? PS3. It was backwards compatible (which they mostly removed) but it was also $700 here in Canada at launch. So price is also critical. If the PS5 launches with full PS4 BC and at a $399 price point, I will buy day 1. If not, I can easily wait and I suspect others will also.

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Not gonna lie: a good price helps.

well if the price is right

What a useless article.

'They want to transition people. We don't know how.'

If PS5 has full backwards compatibility for PS4, I'll get it at launch. I'd just unplug the PS4 and slide the PS5 right in and keep gaming.

Hell, I'd consider pre-ordering if it had full BC for PS3, PS2, PS1. So many games I never got around to finishing.

I can't wait to play RDR2 on ps5 - it's an oddly underrated game. The more I go back to it, the more I find, it's like an old Beatles album.

Every new console fails to get the support needed to make people buy out on a next gen console....i bought the PS4 on day 1 and was dissapointed with it....I for one will not be buying a next gen console for at least the first 12 months....

Once they make a GTA , Assassins Creed or a sequel to bloodbourne type games built from the ground up for the ps5 people will be creaming for it.

Give me some new exclusive games faster, then I'll move a little faster as well. Otherwise I'm just going to wait on it for a while like I did with the PS4

Ahh that's a odd statement, it's like saying Google wants to move twitch players to mixer.

I would be alarmed with that statement, should be backwards compatible and more commitments with shared ecosystems with other console makers.

So should PS2 players move to PS4 then? Or what.....

Each generation it's getting harder and harder to tell the difference. I mean with PS4 Pro you've already got 4K (which I can barely tell the difference from 1080p unless the screen is huge) and lots of games running at 60fps etc. I'm an X1X owner and I already know I'm holding off from Scarlett for at least a year or two, maybe more. I think if Sony wants a fast leap this time, they're gonna be in for a rude awakening.

Got my PS4 a year after it was released and even then I felt I was too early. I wont be looking at the PS5 until at least two years into its lifetime. Still have my PS3 setup as my entertainment device, so no need for a third gaming console anytime soon.