{"id":379,"date":"2026-04-09T21:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5fabddafe4b017964f147c0d"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:34:15","slug":"sony-exec-transition-from-ps4-to-ps5-expected-to-take-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/sony-exec-transition-from-ps4-to-ps5-expected-to-take-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Exec: Transition from PS4 to PS5 Expected to Take 3 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sony executive has said that the full generational transition from PS4 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/playstation-5\">PS5<\/a> &#8220;will take about three years.&#8221;Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/av.watch.impress.co.jp\/docs\/series\/rt\/1288103.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AV Watch<\/a> (translated via Google Translate) Sony&#8217;s SVP of Global Product Strategy and Management Hideaki Nishino insisted that &#8220;forward compatibility is important&#8221; and that we&#8217;ll be seeing cross-generational content that supports both PS4 and PS5 for a few years yet.<output class=\"article-video-container\"><\/output>&#8220;The current assumption is that the transition from PS4 to PS5 will take about three years,&#8221; Nishino added. &#8220;We have more than 100 million PS4 customers, but we will do our best to move to PS5 as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is great news if you&#8217;re sticking with your PlayStation 4 for the time being, as it means Sony is committed to supporting both generations of consoles for the time being. It complements the comments from SIE CEO Jim Ryan, who recently said that it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/sonys-jim-ryan-says-its-crucial-to-keep-serving-ps4-owners-in-years-to-come\">was &#8216;crucial&#8217; to keep serving PS4 owners<\/a> after the pandemic showed how active that huge audience remains.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"object-feedback\"><\/section>\n<p><output class=\"widget-container\" readability=\"-24\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-2486504960 slideshow-preview\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>Confirmed PlayStation 5 Games<\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-2486504960 images-container\"><button aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-2486504960 hero-image\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-3905315446 aspect-ratio-container aspect-ratio-16-9\">\n<div class=\"jsx-3905315446 aspect-ratio-child\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sony-exec-transition-from-ps4-to-ps5-expected-to-take-3-years.jpg\" alt role=\"presentation\" class=\"jsx-2920405963 progressive-image image jsx-2126225085 expand loading\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/output>Of course, there are already PS5 exclusives coming to the new device at launch such as Demon&#8217;s Souls and Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Nishino mentions that Sony is asking developers to develop &#8220;on the premise of cross-generation&#8221; for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>In other PS5 news, you can check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/playstation-5-review\">our review of the next-gen console here.<\/a> Tennis champ Naomi Osaka recently starred in a PS5 advert and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/resident-evil-village-gameplay-shown-off-by-tennis-star-naomi-osaka\">debuted some new footage from Resident Evil Village<\/a>, which you can take a look at here.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JordanOloman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Follow him on Twitter.<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/sony-exec-transition-from-ps4-to-ps5-expected-to-take-3-years\">News Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sony executive has said that the full generational transition from PS4 to PS5 &#8220;will take about three years.&#8221;Speaking to AV Watch (translated via Google Translate) Sony&#8217;s SVP of Global Product Strategy and Management Hideaki Nishino insisted that &#8220;forward compatibility is important&#8221; and that we&#8217;ll be seeing cross-generational content that supports both PS4 and PS5 for a few years yet.&#8220;The current assumption is that the transition from PS4 to PS5 will take about three years,&#8221; Nishino added. &#8220;We have more than 100 million PS4 customers, but we will do our best to move to PS5 as soon as possible.&#8221; This is great news if you&#8217;re sticking with your PlayStation 4 for the time being, as it means Sony is committed to supporting both generations of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/sony-exec-transition-from-ps4-to-ps5-expected-to-take-3-years\/\">Read 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