In an interview with Spanish gaming site 3DJuegos, SCEE’s James Armstrong talks about the PlayStation 3’s successor.
It’s all been translated via Google, so it’s a little tricky to pull out accurate soundbites, but it does seem like Sony is planning on something a little less hardcore for the next console.
“How do you imagine the next generation of consoles? Is it better graphics, new control interfaces, or both at once?” asks the site. “It’s hard to say right now,” says Armstrong in reply. “I do not think we’ll have a console with much better graphics than the PS3 currently offers. I believe the future will be to provide consumers with better experiences and [be] more accessible.”
“The aim will be to make more people enter the world of video games and try to design titles for women.”
Armstrong says that market research shows that it’s mostly boys that enjoy PlayStation – there are no games for girls.
“We [will] try to snag the games,” he says. “If we are an industry that has a product primarily intended for men, we are actually selling for 50% of what we could sell. So if we can make games for women would have a larger business and interesting. I think it’s important.”
We’d love to see a proper translation of this if any of our readers are Spanish.
Radiitz
This is the start of more consoles being more family orientated… Ugh. Yeah sure, there will still be games for us core gamers (I know someone will just reply throwing that in my face) but now we don’t have all the focus.
hate_smith
“More Accessible Experience” That does’nt sound good to me at all… I read the words but my mind said “less stuff you want”