Better and stronger hardware, and a cloud game that stops.
After seven years, Sony is finally launching the PlayStation 5 in Christmas 2020, but the era of Sony’s throne has passed.
According to Sony, the goal of the PS5 is to bring “higher immersion”. To achieve this goal, we must first rethink the design of the gamepad.
Sony and Immersion were involved in patent disputes for vibration technology. After five years of litigation, Sony eventually paid more than $100 million to Immersion for reconciliation before continuing to use the vibration function on the gamepad. Until 2013, Sony released the DualShock4 handle, which enhanced the grip while still retaining the vibration technology. At the same time, Immersion and Nintendo reached an in-depth cooperation to jointly develop HD vibration technology, and the realistic touch has won a lot of attention for the Nintendo handheld Switch.
Sony released the DualShock4 gamepad in 2013
But Immersion and Sony, Microsoft are only patent licensing relationships, so for Sony, how to enhance immersion is the key to the next generation of game consoles to win market attention.
Unlike players who play mobile games and PC games, players who are obsessed with console games have more requirements for “immersion” than hearing and vision, as well as touch. The PS5 gave up the vibration technology used for gamepads from the fifth-generation consoles. With the newly developed haptic feedback technology, gamers will feel more extensive and detailed feedback on the game, such as the feeling of the car hitting the wall. There will be a clear difference between the feeling of hitting the opponent with the football field, and the feeling of running on the grass and the feeling of crawling in the mud are completely different.
In addition, Sony integrated the “adaptive trigger” into the shoulder button (L2/R2) of the game controller. Currently, the game developer has provided an initial version. The developer can adjust the resistance of the trigger by writing a program. Come to more apps and gameplay.
In addition, the new PS5 will also support up to 8K resolution output, the optical drive is upgraded to 4K Blu-ray player, and the PS4 only supports 1080p resolution output, which has a qualitative leap in picture clarity. On the other hand, the PS5 is equipped with a super-fast custom SSD hard drive, which not only improves the speed, but also saves more memory space. Game developers can use these spaces to enrich the game content and view.Feel the effect.
The PS4 operating system, which has been criticized for reasons such as delaying Caton, will also change in this hardware upgrade. In the new UI interface, in addition to friends’ recent rankings, you can see more details. Multiplayer games provide real-time activity on the UI, and the single-player UI provides you with information about the tasks you can complete and the rewards you can get to complete the mission.
In most of the powder, game compatibility is their most important part. After experiencing the PS4 replacement architecture, it is impossible to make the next-generation game consoles compatible with the previous generation of platform games. Some players lost their willingness to purchase PS4. At the same time, Sony’s biggest competitor, Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox One game console, is already under development, code-named “Scarlet”, which will be compatible with games on Xbox One, Xbox 360 and the original Xbox. 1000 games are available for play.
Massive games are the key to PS4 success
In the face of multiple pressures, the PS5 will not only be compatible with all PS4 games after the upgrade, but also release a series of heavy games, Sony should stop the loss of players as much as possible. SIE President Jim Ryan explained: “In the Internet age, backward compatibility has become very important. Considering the size of our growing community over the years and the efforts made on the PS4, the PS5 wants to succeed, with down Compatibility is critical.”
According to VGChartz’s data, as of April 2018, PS4 global sales exceeded 77.57 million units, which is about twice that of Xbox One, ranking first. In terms of market share, PS4 also accounts for 60% of the market share, and the dominance is difficult to shake. Although the PS4 was released in 2013, several small updates can satisfy the game needs of the players. With the mature game ecosystem, the sales of the PS4 are still very strong.
However, the global console game market has been thinner. The total sales of the eighth generation of major console platforms (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft) are seriously behind the seventh generation. There is a lack of innovation in products, low demand for players, and development costs. Too high an “infinite loop.” In this regard, the major traditional hardware game giants are looking for their own way out, but with Internet companies such as Google and Amazon entering the market, Sony wants to continue to become more difficult.
Google,Microsoft and Amazon have started testing and researching their own cloud gaming systems, but Sony is still on the sidelines and continues to focus on hardware. In Sony’s view, cloud games are not a convincing solution in the current game market dilemma. Whether it is “combination of console games and mobile games”, or cloud games or VR games, it is impossible to become mainstream in the short term.
The 2019 PlayStation Preferred Store landed in Shanghai Xujiahui
After Sony officially announced that the PS5 will be released at the end of 2020, regarding the naming of the PS5, many fans joked that it should be called PSV (Roman numeral 5), and PSV is also the most bleak handheld PS Vita of Sony’s sales. abbreviation. The game console ban in 2000 has profoundly affected the layout of the domestic game industry. However, when the game console ban was lifted in 2014 and Sony Microsoft launched its own national version of the console, it was difficult for the game console to shake the Chinese game market.
After the PS5 was released, facing the overwhelming advantage of mobile games, Sony still needs to do more.