{"id":115583,"date":"2020-07-17T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/366603"},"modified":"2020-07-17T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:53:00","slug":"as-the-ps5-draws-near-playstation-promises-theres-still-a-ton-of-life-in-the-ps4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/17\/as-the-ps5-draws-near-playstation-promises-theres-still-a-ton-of-life-in-the-ps4\/","title":{"rendered":"As the PS5 draws near, PlayStation promises there’s ‘still a ton of life in’ the PS4"},"content":{"rendered":"

PlayStation is taking a more clear-cut approach<\/a> to its next-generational hardware than competing console maker Xbox, but both companies seem to agree that the launch of new hardware won\u2019t suddenly spell the end for their current consoles.<\/p>\n

Speaking during a Summer Games Fest-themed chat with Geoff Keighley (via IGN<\/a>), PlayStation global marketing head Eric Lempel explained that, while it’s not as big on cross-gen launches as Xbox is, support of the PlayStation 4 doesn\u2019t end when the PlayStation 5 finally makes its debut.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlayStation 4 is a big part of everything we do, and will continue to be a big part of everything we do. There\u2019s a lot more to come on PlayStation 4,\u201d says Lempel. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think most recently we\u2019re seeing some of the greatest titles of this generation have released in recent weeks but that will continue. Again, PlayStation 5 is the next generation product but we\u2019ve got a lot to come for people on PlayStation 4. [There\u2019s] still a ton of life in that product.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the other side of the fence, Xbox has similar plans to continue support of the current-generation Xbox One for years to come, though a key part of Xbox’s plan is to forgo any first-party next-generation exclusives and release heavy hitters both the Xbox One and the next gen Xbox Series X.<\/p>\n

“We want every Xbox player to play all the new games from Xbox Game Studios. That\u2019s why Xbox Game Studios titles we release in the next couple of years\u2014like Halo Infinite<\/em>\u2014will be available and play great on Xbox Series X and Xbox One,” reiterates a recent blog post<\/a> from the Xbox Team. “We won\u2019t force you to upgrade to Xbox Series X at launch to play Xbox exclusives.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PlayStation is taking a more clear-cut approach to its next-generational hardware than competing console maker Xbox, but both companies seem to agree that the launch of new hardware won\u2019t suddenly spell the end for their current consoles. Speaking during a Summer Games Fest-themed chat with Geoff Keighley (via IGN), PlayStation global marketing head Eric Lempel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}