Eric Lempel, Sony‘s head of worldwide marketing, said that those who have the current-gen console shouldn’t be afraid if they don’t switch to the new console, as there’s still a lot of games coming to the PlayStation 4.

Lempel was talking with Geoff Keighley, the producer and host of The Game Awards while Keighley showcased the DualSense controller. (We talked about it in detail recently.) The train of thought makes sense: how long does a console manufacturer back the old hardware while the new one is out on the market? (The Xbox > Xbox 360 transition was incredibly abrupt in 2005-2006.)

„We believe that all of these things combined, as well as all the other great PlayStation 5 features we’ve spoken about, really lead to a next-generation experience. And in many cases, we can’t take everybody with us from previous consoles into that experience. You need new hardware, you need new devices to experience what these developers want you to experience.

[The] PlayStation 4 is a big part of everything we do and will continue to be a big part of everything we do. There’s a lot more to come for PlayStation 4. I think we’re seeing some of the greatest titles of this generation release in recent weeks, but that will continue. [The] PlayStation 5 is the next generation product, but we’ve got a lot to come for people on PlayStation 4. There’s still a ton of life in that product,” Lempel said.

We have our doubts – while there will be multiplatform titles and smaller games by indie developers, not to mention some AAA games with current-gen versions, we don’t see many Sony Interactive Entertainment Studios work on PlayStation 4-exclusive games. So it might be the sunset for the seven-year-old console.

Source: PSL

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