The CEO of PlayStation has strongly ruled out such rumours about Sony‘s and Microsoft‘s console-manufacturing, or at least video game-related arms fusing together.

After the surprising news in May, when Sony and Microsoft announced a collaboration about working together on gaming and cloud-related services (which, in return, allows Sony to use Microsoft‘s Azure data centres – we wrote about this subject when it was announced), seeing such rumours about the two companies forming a big megacorporation made sense. However, Jim Ryan, the president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, shot down these rumours in his interview with the Financial Times. (Doubting his words is reasonable, though – two years ago, he didn’t have a positive opinion about backwards compatibility, which we wrote about in June 2017.)

„There is to my knowledge… no scenario where the PlayStation and Xbox platforms combine. The two platforms will remain separate with their own separate identities and brands and fans. We are getting more confident with the [PlayStation Now] service and we are really going to start to push it hard this year and the year to follow,” Ryan said. He mentioned PlayStation Now because this is where Microsoft’s technology enters the picture, and the two companies try to work together against Google Stadia, which got a „price tag” yesterday. (Working together to an extent – Microsoft also works on its streaming service called Project xCloud. We’ll talk about the Stadia news separately later today.)

So there will be no monster mashup like a Playbox or an XStation in the future. However, let’s not talk about the future – focus on the present: Microsoft will likely share more details about the Project xCloud, and perhaps announce its next-gen Xbox officially, too. Both Microsoft and Sony have been working on their next console generation hardware.

Source: GameSpot