Sony has long announced that major titles in its PS5 lineup would be cross-gen video games in all respects, contrary to what has happened in previous generations. Sony CEO himself, Jim Ryan explained that PS4 support will continue until 2022 and now Hideaki Nishino has also intervened on the matter.
The latter confirmed what the CEO said and specified that this cross-gen trend will continue for about three years. Nishino also intervened to clarify the reasons for the Japanese company:
Developing titles exclusively for PS5, at least for the moment, could be quite complicated. Developing cross-gen video games, and therefore also available on PS4, is necessary precisely to build a PlayStation system that can be fully exploited by the developers.
This cross-generational phase, Therefore, will help developers get to grips with the new console produced by Sony and will allow them to create more and more accurate works. Recall that we refer to exclusives - such as Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Horizon: Forbidden West and The Pathless - and it is possible that developers of cross-platform titles choose to act in another way.
