Kaz Hirai: PlayStation 4 Won't Be Download-Only
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Back in 2006, then Sony Computer Entertainment executive Phil Harrison told Wired magazine that the he expected the PlayStation 4 not to have a physical disc drive. Years later, Sony gaming boss Kaz Hirai tells MCV that the world isn’t ready for a digital-only console and that the PS4 will probably have something or other.
Both Sony and Microsoft are sticking to their guns that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 will stick around for a 10-year life cycle, which would put the new PlayStation 4 coming in around 2016. Hirai-san doesn’t believe that by then, the world will be ready for a download-only console. He says:
We do business in parts of the world where network infrastructure isn’t as robust as one would hope. There’s always going to be requirement for a business of our size and scope to have a physical medium. To think everything will be downloaded in two years, three years or even ten years from now is taking it a little bit to the extreme.
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