Sony Looking Into Smaller PS4 Updates; Lots More Features Can Be Pulled Out Of PS4

Shawn Layden took over from Jack Tretton the role of President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America seven months ago. Last Friday, Sony Computer Entertainment announced many interesting figures, among which the 13.5 million PS4 units shipped worldwide certainly is the most important; for comparison, Microsoft shipped 10 millions of Xbox One units.

For the occasion, Venturebeat published a massive, four page long interview with Layden. Many interesting points were discussed, among which we’ve highlighted a couple; Layden confirmed that Sony is indeed looking into releasing smaller updates alongside larger ones, in order to try and avoid the issues experienced by many PlayStation 4 users with the update 2.00.

We’re looking at all these issues. Sometimes these updates get big because so many of the components are reliant on each other in some way. It naturally creates its own size effect. But I think we’ll look at the rollout going forward and see when we can get a discrete benefit or feature that can go out and go out now. You’ll still see some of the large ones, just because they’ll be packaged together.

Morever, he stated that they’re going to try and pull more features out of the PS4 in 2015 as there’s a lot more that can be done on that front.

We’re looking at 2015. Our concentration is going to be around continuing to provide two things. One is, from a hardware standpoint, we want to continue to innovate across the hardware. There are lots more features and benefits we can pull out of the PlayStation 4 hardware. It’s pretty well feature-proved to allow us to do that. We’ll continue to execute on that.

He also had something to say about the upcoming PlayStation Experience event in Las Vegas (6/7 December), saying that it’s going to a great weekend and there will be announcements to make and secret to reveal.

We’re also happy to see a lot of excitement around the PlayStation Experience in Las Vegas. One thing we’re doing this year that’s entirely new to us is hosting our own consumer event. When I was in Tokyo we did one, years ago, and in London we did it for a few years in the PS2 era. It effectively killed ECTS, the U.K. trade show. But we think that with the PlayStation birthday, December 3–20 years this year, yeah. December 3, 1994. Not only we have the birthday, but it’s almost exactly six months after E3. It’s good market for a lot of the game developers to come out and have something new to say, some secrets to reveal, some announcements to make. We can open that up to the wider gaming community, our fans.

It’s going to be a great three-day weekend in Vegas, is what I’d say.

According to insider Tidux, there may be at least a couple of AAA announcements about PS4 exclusives, and we also know from Sony that PS Vita is going to be featured heavily. Are you excited to see what’s coming up for PlayStation in 2015 at PS Experience?  Let us know below.