Now that Xbox is fizzling away into simply being a third-party game publisher, and Nintendo is doing, well, whatever wacky thing Nintendo is currently doing, that’s left Sony and PlayStation to pick up the scraps where everyone’s left off. Still, it seems that even their former executive, Shuhei Yoshida, is a tad worried about the console's future.
In a recent talk with Skill Up during their FPS Podcast, he explained that, although Sony has produced some amazing AAA masterpieces this generation, the general burnout among fans from high-fidelity, graphically intensive experiences may be approaching quickly.
It’s reaching the point where, maybe it's about time for Sony, like its Microsoft and Nintendo brethren, to adopt a different approach to game and console development. After all, if the PS6 is just a simple 1-up from the PS5, that may not be enough innovation for Sony to last the next generation.
Fans Experiencing AAA Graphics Burnout
To start, Yoshida mentions that graphical upgrades “have hit the level where even I cannot tell the difference.” Even though he acknowledges that modern technology, like the PS5’s lightning-fast SSD, generally makes experiences smoother and load times faster, it’s slowly becoming the...
