With the PS5 turning five years old in November, discussion about its successor has begun to intensify. Sony and AMD recently spoke about new technological breakthroughs that it was pioneering, and former SIE Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has shared his thoughts on the rumored PS6 and how Sony needs to do more than just chase graphics for its next-generation console.
Speaking on the Friends Per Second podcast, Yoshida explained how the graphical capabilities of current-gen hardware were starting to hit a wall and that the company needs to start thinking beyond pure graphical power to attract a wide audience. “PlayStation–in my mind–they can’t do the same thing they have been doing, increasing the graphics power and providing the high-end experiences,” Yoshida said. “They might just do that, but still, that feels like a niche audience right now.”
While Yoshida doesn’t know what he’d do to make the PS6 stand out if he were still at PlayStation, he did stress that he was confident that the current leadership of the company–led by CEO Hideaki Nishino–is capable of bringing something “disruptive” to the industry, thanks to them being relatively young in comparison to the previous management generation.