The president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has suggested that PlayStation 4 will receive smaller updates in the future.
Speaking in an extensive interview with VentureBeat, Shawn Layden, who took over the role at SCEA from Jack Tretton, said the company is keen to avoid some of the issues that plagued users with Firmware 2.0.
Said Layden, “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.”
Looking to next year, the executive said that Sony is eager to squeeze as much out of PS4 as possible:
“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.”
PS4 has sold 13.5 million units worldwide since its launch in November 2013.