“Obviously, our eyes and our horizons have lifted with regards to what’s possible with that PS4 community, based on what we’ve observed over the last six months,” Ryan says, referring to an increase in players as a result of COVID-19 lockdowns. “That can be quite powerful, because in 2021, 2022… that PS4 community that we’ve spoken about, they will be the vast majority of people on PlayStations during that time. It is crucial that we keep them engaged and happy. And the last six months have demonstrated that we could do that to an extent that we didn’t think possible when we were setting our minds pre-COVID.”
Lol is there a bigger exec bullshitter than Jim Ryan?
I expect to see a demons souls announcement for PS4 by the end of this year.
It should have been clear to anyone that you dont just leave an install base like that and expect them all to want to move to a PS5 quickly. As usual Phil Spencer is upfront and honest and gets told his “holding things back”
Also what this says about most of the games press and tech people who brought into those nonsense statements is enlightening.
Maybe one day they’ll realise you can like a company and be still critical when they pull shit like this.
Yeah kinda skeptical of that framing too. He suggests COVID changed their mind but they showed their games off in June for the first time and talked them up as PS5 only and ‘we believe in generations’ etc up until what, 6 weeks ago or something? Surely these PS4 versions of the games didn’t just start 6 weeks ago. Betting this means God of War and DS are PS4 bound too.
Exactly this. The deafening silence from press and fans to some of Ryan’s BS is funny at this point…timed exclusives/moneyhats with the Playstation Advantage, the whole cross-gen fiasco and the ridiculous price raises (80 euros lol) and everyone is going la la la la la.
I guess when Demon’s Souls and Ragnarok turn out to be cross-gen too they will start to question Jimbo’s honesty. maybe.
Whatever the reasoning is doesn’t matter materially. More PS5 games on PS4 is good for people like me who can’t afford a PS5. Let him use whatever justification or even savvy double-talk he wants, what matters is the results and this is a win in my book.
Oh no, I’m not arguing that at all. I don’t like Jim Ryan at all for the very same reasons you pointed out, but the fact that I find him shifty doesn’t invalidate that this business decision is to my benefit. At the end of the day, he’s an executive and his job is to make his product look good. I don’t like it or him, but I also don’t care about how he’s being coy. If I had it my way, marketing wouldn’t be a thing and we’d just pick our products on their strengths, but what are you gonna do?
We dunno how many games from Sony are cross gen, but I would not be surprised if basically everything was until late 2022, with DS and maybe even R&C possibly coming to PS4. Or maybe those stay next gen only. At this point, it’s hard to say tbh.
It is fascinating how gamers/press is not really reacting to this, as the existing paradigm (somehow) is still how Xbox is cross gen and Sony isn’t. In reality, that is backwards.
