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.
儘管肖恩雷登(Shawn Layden)於2019年辭去了索尼互動娛樂董事長一職,但他並不羞於
分享他對遊戲產業未來的看法。這位前 PlayStation 老闆認為,索尼和微軟之間持續
存在的遊戲機競爭衝突應該結束。
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採訪時,Layden將 PlayStation 和 Xbox 的競爭比作幾十年前 VHS 和
索尼 Betamax 之間的格式之戰,前者在兩種格式過時之前贏得了勝利。
"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 與 PlayStation、Ali與Frazier之戰......坦白說,我們必須開始質疑獨佔遊戲
機的目的是什麼,以及這是否可以繼續如此,」雷登說。 「當你有競爭的格式、競爭的
平台、競爭的技術時,我們都會宣布戰爭結束了……但真正的競爭將是內容。內容應該是
出版商的競爭,而不是硬體的競爭我認為我們正處於這樣一個階段:控制台在下一代中變
得無關緊要……如果不是下一代,那麼肯定是下一代。
While Microsoft has been testing the waters by releasing a few Xbox games on
PlayStation 5