Sony Interactive Entertainment's Mark Cerny revealed to the gaming industry earlier that the PlayStation 5 will have a powerful AMD custom Zen 2 CPU and a Solid State Drive (SSD). We also learned a few weeks ago that Sony's next-generation gaming console is arriving sometime in the holiday of 2020. More official details about the PS5 were recently shared by Sony's CEO and President Jim Ryan.
In his recent interview with GamesIndustry.biz, the CEO revealed Sony's plans for the PlayStation 5. He noted that the PlayStation 5 dev kit was already sent to some game developers and underlined that the company has been hearing good feedback from them. Ryan added that developers and publishers love the simplicity of the PS5 that allows them to get the code running easily.
This is definitely a piece of promising news considering the range of issues game developers usually encounter with other platforms, for instance, with the PS3. Ryan revealed that developers love the ease they are experiencing in being to get their code running on the PlayStation 5. It can be recalled that the PS3 is one of the systems that was notoriously difficult to develop games for.
Because of this, the gaming industry saw inferior versions of multiplatform games launched for the console. The PlayStation 4, aiming to respond to the cell processor issues of its predecessor, used the more dev friendly approach and built its specs around PC. The result was apparent, and game developers found the system to be a much easier platform to develop games.
It appears that this is the direction Sony's PlayStation 5 is heading. Packed with the custom variant of AMD Zen 2 processor, the next generation gaming console want to exceed what the PS4 has achieved in terms of ease in game development. The CEO also talked about the PlayStation community in general and shared that the company will try to make the transition from PS4 to PS5 at a level and scale that it has never tried before.
Ryan's statement could be a subtle indication that the PlayStation 5 will feature backward compatibility. The CEO also mentioned during the interview that Sony is currently busy working on the first part title that could make or break the success of the PlayStation 5.
The PlayStation 4 was recently adjudged as the second best-selling gaming console in the industry, setting a high level of standard for the PlayStation 5. Expect to hear more interesting updates about Sony's PS5 in the next few days.
