Jim Ryan: I Believe the PS5 will be Sony's Biggest and Best and Most Loved PlayStation - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 November 2021 / 2,994 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment boss Jim Ryan during a keynote fireside chat during GI Live: London discussed the PlayStation 5 and how he hopes it will be Sony's biggest and best console to date.
"I hope that PlayStation 5, and I really believe the PlayStation 5 will be Sony's biggest and best and most loved PlayStation yet," said Ryan. "I hope that will happen."
Ryan added he would like to see PlayStation enjoyed by hundreds of millions of people and at the moment a hit game on the PlayStation is played by 10 to 20 million people.
"I would also like to see a world where the games that we make at PlayStation can be enjoyed by many tens of millions of people," he added. "Perhaps hundreds of millions of people. Right now success with the current console model, a really great PlayStation hit you're talking ten or 20 million people being able to play that game.
"We're talking about games stacking up against music, we're talking about games stacking up against movies. Music and movies, they can be enjoyed by almost limitless audiences. And I think some of the art that our studios are making is some of the finest entertainment that has been made anywhere in the world.
"And to kind-of gate the audience for the wonderful art, wonderful entertainment that our studios are making... to gate the audience for that at 20 or 30 million frustrates me. I would love to see a world where hundreds of millions of people can enjoy those games."
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Well, it is the biggest. Literally.
lol, so true!
He definitely got literally, the BIGGEST PS on point lol but nothing will ever top the PS2. That system was a force to be reckoned with and didn’t have its last released game until the launch of the PS4, 13 years after its original launch! Even the PS4 will end up a little below 40 million units shy of the mighty PS2.
On a personal note though, the PS1 will always be the top PS for me for the games and that intro!
I can't stand the intro of the first Playstation. It reminds me too much of the stress I felt praying for the console to read the game disc. I already had to put the Playstation upright to be able to play.
Ill stick to saying that the PS2 is not only the best PlayStation ever but the greatest console ever!
There are tons of great games on the PS2, but it's also the console with the most bad games and probably one of the ones with the worst good games / bad games ratio.
During the first two years of the PS2 on the market there was next to nothing good and it was sold on the success of the first Playstation and the fact that it played DVDs.
It offered the worst visual comfort (the worst resolution) in comparison with its competitors DC, GC and Xbox. It only had two controller ports and it was quite complicated to play online (more complicated anyway than with the DC and the Xbox).
When I switched from the Dreamcast to the PS2, I felt a step backwards in terms of graphics quality (and also because in Europe a lot of PS2 games only run at 50Hz).
It got lots of games because lots of people bought it because of the success of the first one and the DVD player, which created great momentum and gave it a virtual monopoly.
But the console itself wasn't great. Is the best console of all time the one that has managed to have a virtual monopoly?
If the best machine is the one with all the games, it's the PC.
Jim Ryan also believed in generations.
Jim Ryan has really been a PR nightmare for Sony since he took over lol. He fought for control and ultimately won, then has proceeded to make blunder after blunder in decision making. Pretty sure that's why we see Hermen Hulst make more public announcements as of late. I like him too! But Jim has done nothing but forced his way into inheriting a great standing gaming division with amazing first-party studios, and that's what has been bailing him out.
Did you read the article on it being the previous head that made the decision to push PS exclusives to PC and made the roadmap? Jim is only following that. And well, they do believe in generations, that doesn`t remove crossgen, in fact we do have several exclusives on PS5.
The way he's talking about reaching hundreds of millions of people, that will never be reached by having games only on PS5 and PC releases later on. Even if PS5 sold better than the ps2, doubtful, it wouldn't happen. I think it's only a matter of time before Sony fully embraces a sub service/cloud gaming because that is the only possibility of reaching those numbers. I know some on here won't like it due to there dislike for Game Pass, but there is really no other logistical way of interpreting it.
You're 100% correct. And they partnered with Microsoft on game streaming technology back in 2019. We're still waiting to see what comes of that partnership.
For that to happen Sony needs another generation of the other guys shooting them in a foot. When the other guys are on game you don't get PS1/2/4 success numbers, though I'd hardly call the PS3 a failure.
...Not sure the Xbox is shooting itself in the foot and the Switch isn't, guess it depends on what the next Switch is.
Don't just believe it. Make it!
Can't argue "love" and "best", since those are subjective. But as far as biggest, it's going to be hard to outsell PS2. And that's exactly what it's going to have to do to earn that title... unless of course, he's referring to company profit. But I think we all know he's not.
Biggest in size =p
And well in SW PS4 is bigger than PS2 already.
Hard to compare software sales between those two eras though, since there were was no digital market. Unless you're talking about software revenue?
In both ways. Sure we cant compare SW sales, but in that same vein we cant really compare HW sales (look at the speed of the price cuts for example). PS4 had more profit and revenue for HW, SW and PS+, but I was just talking about the number of SW sold.
Well, my reasoning was because back in the day, the vast majority of games were full priced. There were very few twenty dollar games outside of Sony's own greatest hits, and there was practically ZERO below that, unless it was some sort of clearance item. Also, there was no digital store, which means not nearly as much crapware etc.
But I mean, if you want to compare them, you can. It's your call. Personally, I wouldn't. Just too different, era wise.
Well from what I heard (Brazil hadnt official PS before PS3) there were A and AA games on PS1 and PS2 era and they were lower price than the AAA, even more because the media was cheap, but sure I dont think there were launchs to the equivalent 20 USD at that time. Still if we look at the general attach ratio PS2 and PS3 are similar, about 10-11 SW per HW, and PS3 already had Indies, Classics and other digitals sold for under 20USD. Sure PS4 tie ratio is much higher than that average and we aren`t comparing apples to apples.
Well he is going to need to change people mind to start consuming games as they do music and movies, and well Sony isn`t doing smartphone games with hundred million players.
well... there is FGO, it's kinda under Sony, and it's one of the biggest money makers in the world of mobile gaming, but i see your point... Sony needs more investment on mobile gaming for sure.
The other option would really be up the PSNow a lot, make it run fine on smartphones, smartvs, pcs and those box for regular tv and keep adding PS5 games there after a time, while also putting more of them on the "play freely with the montlhy sub". Don't think they will do it so soon though.
Probably buy one during the end years. Don't really play much anymore.
Have it last then. PS4 was released back in 2013, the fact that its still getting games, and its catalog is continually growing... its gonna be hard to top.
I'll get one if a slim version arrives and isn't a joke.
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