Former PlayStation Boss Questions Whether Proprietary Consoles Make Sense
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By Blair Marnell on December 4, 2024 at 11:00AM PST
Although he stepped down from his position as Chairman of Sony Interactive
Entertainment in 2019, Shawn Layden hasn't been shy about sharing his views
about the future of the gaming industry. And the former PlayStation boss
believes that that the ongoing conflict of rival consoles between Sony and
Microsoft should come to a close.
尽管肖恩雷登(Shawn Layden)于2019年辞去了索尼互动娱乐董事长一职,但他并不羞于
分享他对游戏产业未来的看法。这位前 PlayStation 老板认为,索尼和微软之间持续
存在的游戏机竞争冲突应该结束。
During an interview with Eurogamer, Layden likens the PlayStation and Xbox
competition to the format wars between VHS and Sony's Betamax decades
earlier, which was won by the former before both formats became obsolete.
在接受Eurogamer采访时,Layden将 PlayStation 和 Xbox 的竞争比作几十年前 VHS 和
索尼 Betamax 之间的格式之战,前者在两种格式过时之前赢得了胜利。
"With Xbox versus PlayStation, the Ali versus Frazier fight... Frankly, we
have to start interrogating what the purpose is of a proprietary console, and
whether that can continue to be true," said Layden. "When you have competing
formats, competing platforms, competing technologies, there comes a time when
we all declare the war is over... But the real competition will be on its
content. And content should be the competition for publishers, not which
hardware you get behind. I think we're at a point where the console becomes
irrelevant in the next... if not the next generation then the next next
generation definitely."
“Xbox 与 PlayStation、Ali与Frazier之战......坦白说,我们必须开始质疑独占游戏
机的目的是什么,以及这是否可以继续如此,”雷登说。 “当你有竞争的格式、竞争的
平台、竞争的技术时,我们都会宣布战争结束了……但真正的竞争将是内容。内容应该是
出版商的竞争,而不是硬件的竞争我认为我们正处于这样一个阶段:控制台在下一代中变
得无关紧要……如果不是下一代,那么肯定是下一代。
While Microsoft has been testing the waters by releasing a few Xbox games on
PlayStation 5