And if they feel that Gran Turismo 7 doesn’t live up to expectations, you know that they will be doing just that. But it is a pretty public piece of hypocrisy that will be easy for angry gamers to use against Sony. Marketing is marketing, and business strategies change. Sony is also the company that last year was saying, “We believe in generations.” I don’t want to make too much of that. Are there really going to be enough people who want Gran Turismo 7, don’t have a PS5, and don’t want to wait until they get a PS5 or plan on never getting one? Rather, are there enough of them to justify developing a PS4 release of the racer that could hold back the PS5 version? By that point, even more PS4 owners that want to upgrade will have done so. I imagine it will release late that year, if it doesn’t slip into 2023. They didn’t bother with the PS4 version.Īnd that is for a PS5 launch title. When people do eventually get a PS5, they are buying Spider-Man. If you look at NPD sales numbers and see how well Miles Morales keeps selling each month, the data looks to support my argument. I think the people who want to play Miles Morales and plan on getting a PS5 eventually will just wait until they can secure the new hardware. I’m not convinced it works like that, though. Plenty of people are “stuck” with a PS4, and they may appreciate still being able to play new games while waiting to get the new hardware. That’s another argument for releasing more games on both systems.

Thanks to high demand and chip shortages, many people who want a PS5 can’t even get one. And it’s not like Sony is struggling to sell PS5s. Or maybe people will remember how great Miles Morales was on PS5 even though it also came out for PS4. If they want to go on and play the PS5 version, that game will be there for them.” And if PS4 owners want to play that game, then they can. Where it makes sense to develop a title for both PS4 and PS5 - for Horizon: Forbidden West, the next God of War, GT7 - we’ll continue looking at that. “I think that’d be bad news for fans of PS4, and frankly not very good business. “You can’t build a community of over 110 million PS4 owners and then just walk away from it, right?” says Hulst. This includes the surprising reveal that the next Gran Turismo will be releasing for both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. In it, he notes the company’s commitment to the PlayStation 4, an aging piece of hardware that has sold over 114 million machines. Sony posted an interview with PlayStation Studios head Hermen Hulst today. Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022.

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