And if the PlayStation 5 was entirely paperless?

Sony already evokes the successor to the PlayStation 4 and does not exclude the idea of ​​completely paperless.

This only been a year that the PlayStation 4 is on the market. But still that Sony thinks of his successor and even mentions it publicly.

During an interview with the Japanese media Nikkei Keizai Shimbun, Masayasu Ito, vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment, confirmed that a PlayStation 5 will come out (which will surprise no one, since the success of the PS4 ), and if -C might still be a physical console, it could also be a platform based on the cloud. Basically, the PlayStation console 5 may be dematerialized console.

These statements confirm the speculations of some analysts who think that the next-gen consoles PS4 and Xbox One may represent the latest generation of physical consoles.

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But how this might work dematerialized console?

Our American and Canadian neighbors already have a taste as this year, Sony has launched the cloud version of the PlayStation 3 via the service PlayStation Now , currently available in both countries, and could do the same for the PS4.

PlayStation Now allows players to play PS3 games streaming via the cloud (in some ways, the console is server side).

So, no need to have a PlayStation 3 to play over 200 games for the console. Currently, PlayStation PS4 Now is available on the Bravia SmartTV and will even be on SmartTV Samsung in 2015 (via the Smart Hub app, the player will need to purchase a well Dualshock controller 4).

Recall that during the IFA 2014, Sony has also launched a feature that allows you to stream video games since its PS4 console to a Xperia Android smartphone , in the case where the television is taken.