Sony appears to have no plans to introduce a further upgrade to its PS4 hardware in the near future, according to new comments from the company.
Speaking to The Guardian, head of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Andrew House said: “We think that for a really substantial period of time [the PS4, PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro are] the PlayStation 4 lineup. We’re very comfortable with that.”
Some have questioned whether Sony and Microsoft - which will release the Xbox One upgrade, Project Scorpio next year - are moving towards something akin to an "Apple model" of regular upgrades to a base design.
Sony has previously said that the Pro is "not the start of a new console generation, nor is it a console that's going to blur the lines between generations".
House also explained that the Pro has been designed, in part, to provide competition with the PC, as opposed to its direct console rivals.
“I saw some data that really influenced me,” he explained. “It suggested that there’s a dip mid-console lifecycle where the players who want the very best graphical experience will start to migrate to PC, because that’s obviously where it’s to be had.
"We wanted to keep those people within our eco-system by giving them the very best and very highest [performance quality]. So the net result of those thoughts was PlayStation 4 Pro – and, by and large, a graphical approach to game improvement.”
The PS4 Pro will feature a boosted CPU clock rate, a 1 terabyte hard drive, and more than double the power of the PS4 GPU, as well as supporting HDR and 4K game output. It won't, however, play 4K Blu-Rays.
Interesting point of view.
