Will There Be A PlayStation 5? Sony Is Unsure: 'It's An If'

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mizzou_guy said:

Soundwave said:

In 10 years I think everyone will have it even urban areas. The tech that Comcast has doesn't even require fiber optic it just requires a new modem. 

Japan is spreading quickly, in fact Sony themselves is one of the leading ISPs offering ultra high speed. Yoshida probably knows whats coming. 

Playstation Now was always a test run for the future I think. Maybe there will be a physical PS5, but even that I think will be entirely optional. 

To be honest it's far more lucrative to let people spend that money on games anyway ... with no hardware cost, you could have 3-4 extra games sold per game player, that would be a dramatic boost to attach rates. 

There is still the cost of servers to support the increased data traffice that these speeds are bringing.  There will have to be an infrastructure update in the places offering these services, even if they are able to use the same lines.

I think you and I are just going to have to agree to disagree.

The question really is not one of "if" it's simply now a question of "when", and with competetion the rate of adoption is going to accelerate because Comcast won't want AT&T to one up them, Google will try to gain marketshare from both, and the end result will be predictable; each will push hard to gain the most marketshare the most quickly and the end result is in under 10 years most people in the US will have this high speed available to them. 

In that case, the future of the game console becomes quite questionable. Sony knows all this better than anyone, they didn't buy Gaikai and pay almost $400 million for them just for the current Playstation Now service ... they know what's coming down the line.