In an interview with The Guardian, Sony's President and CEO said that the company had to create the PlayStation 4 Pro in order to prevent gamers from moving to the PC.

As you already know, Sony has recently unveiled the Playstation 4 Pro, a special refresh version of the popular console that comes with a much better hardware, including AMD's 14nm Polaris GPU, which should give it a graphics performance close to the RX 470.

In an interview with The Guardian, Sony Interactive Entertainment's President and CEO, Andrew House, said that the company saw some data which shows that gamers want the very best graphical experience and could move to the PC. This pushed the company into creating a new console that will provide the very best and very higher performance graphics quality.

While we do agree that it is nice to see that Playstation 4 Pro finally has a decent GPU under its hood, we do not agree that this is anywhere close to the PC. Offering Radeon RX 470-class graphics performance is still in the level of an entry-level PC and Playstation 4 will never be able to touch the gaming quality of the PC, but nevertheless, it is still a move in the right direction.

Of course, Sony could have created a much more powerful console but that would push the price way up and it will probably make developer quite angry as they would have to optimize each game for a couple of different console versions, something that appears to be a problem even now when you have two different consoles.

Sony will probably score big with its Playstation VR and there is a market for both such gaming and consoles but, once again, PC gaming is in a whole different category.



Source: TheGuardian.com.