Industry must innovate and evolve to thrive, says Sony

So we will have more gimmicks on the way? Great...

Developers should focus on their own work rather than telling the industry what to do or which direction to go. They're saying these things only to tilt public conceptions to their business advantage.

I remember the bad old days after the PS3 launch. That was an awful push. Forget the games, it is a media centre of confusion. People were buying it, mainly as a cheaper BluRay player, those first years. What rules are they trying to set, now they are strolling outside the garden walls?

innovation in games design seems to be held back by the rotten economy. Since publishers are not really happy at chancing a brand new IP. When something like Call of Duty is more or less going to make millions. Creativity in the industry cannot thrive in a bad economy. As for the machines the games are played on. It will be interesting to see what Sony does in the future in the 8th Generation. PSvita still has yet to truly catch on. While the PS3 is at its limit.

If they'll only release a new console every five-six years, why don't they build them with upgradeable memory, graphics, and processor slots? You know, like a PC? Don't need to replace the entire system every year or two, but a smaller hardware upgrade would help. BF3 for console could have been packaged with a new graphics card, for example. Even this way, they could still meet a price point below a higher-end gaming PC.

See I disagree with the whole innovate BS... innovative software yes cheap tricks that are used in one or two decent games via some over priced add on device no. They need to take it back to basics quite trying to make a videogame console your central media hub I have a laptop I have a smartphone i dont need my videogame console to do all the same crap those can do. Someone needs to take it back to the day where a videogame system was just a videogame system. Cut out the BS which in turn cuts out costs and put actual $$ into the internals. Also three simple words FIRST PARTY TITLES I know its almost impossible these days to have a developer make an exclusive game because they are losing out on some major $$ if they do but really all this cross platform crap kills individuality of what each system is known for you get only a handful of exclusive games and well that sucks i understand why but it still sucks.

"Industry must innovate and evolve"

-No new hardware for 6+ years-

You can only butter one slice of bread so many ways. More bread! MORE BREAD ALREADY!

Frankly speaking, I think that innovation will happen when the game industry stops churning out shooter after shooter. Innovation in the game industry is part game and part hardware. Every console has some form of new or innovative hardware, for all their faults (like the Kinect, the Move, and to Nintendo's credit, the Wii and Wii U, although the success of the Wii U cannot be determined, for obvious reasons). The issue is that no one has really taken advantage of these accessories/hardware. There's no good reason to buy the Playstation Move, the Kinect, or the Wii for mainstream gamers. Some might argue that the Kinect, the Move, and the Wii are completely useless, but I think that the only reason that this is true is because no one has created a good use for them. Playing Metroid on the Wii is a good example how even a shooter could be turned into something fresh.

As for whether or not the PS Vita PS3 connection thing is innovative, I have yet to see anyone take advantage of it, so who knows?

I am not buying two copies of the same game just so I can cross play what a stupid idea. This is not innovation it is bleeding your customers who ever thought of that crap should get fired, its reasons like this that sony lost all that money in the last year what was it 5 billion or so. Who can loss that kind of money and not clean house there are people in this company who cant do their jobs. Another year like this and it wont matter they will be out of business if they eat another 5 billion.

The comments from Sony/Jim Ryan are kind of ironic.

Sony is saying the game industry needs more innovation, and yet their own customers proudly gloat about how Sony/PS is 'focusing on the games'. At the same time, their direct competition (Microsoft/Xbox) is expanding and is bringing more entertainment and device options on top of their already popular gaming platform.

The irony here, is how the gloating PS3/Sony customers seem to be a bit confused. Jim Ryan states the industry needs more innovation (take a look at MS/Xbox for this) and yet doesn't understand their own customers see PS3/Sony has 'sticking with what they know' (i.e. staying with games as their focus).

There's a disconnect somewhere between what Sony/PS says, what they are actually doing, and what their customers think they are doing.

I wouldn't be surprised if they integrated a more social aspect to the console. Maybe some sort of Android interface where you could use apps. We're still calling out for things like cross game chat and I would assume that development of such things would have been shifted from PS3 onto the PS4.

I would also suspect we'll get more integration with TV services.

It's pretty easy (relatively) to produce a top spec console to play games but the machine needs to be more than just a games machine, in this day and age, where people want an entertainment hub in their homes. The PS3, for it's faults, did a very good job of that and now it has to improve on that.

Its simple the industry has evolved gpu and cpu wise, but it dosen't matter because of the focus on "safe money making games" like halo, call of duty, the grand theft autos and gta rip offs...People treat console gaming these days like everyone is training for the gaming league! nothing wrong with that but games are supposed to be fun, and thats why nintendo will always be top dog! They make fun games! Sony and MS just need to be creative and develop 2d side scrollers, platformers, something different!

Dare I say it... The age of consoles are dying. people want more out of their devices. I think sony started to get that ball rolling when they allowed players to watch DVDs and CDs. Then blue ray. Now video games can played on phones as well as watching movies and listening to music. So when a new console is launched people want more out of it. Either turn the next consoles into phones (portable devices) or just make it into a PC and Sony just go the way of M$ and build their own operating system.

Innovation and evolution are important but aren't everything! I even believe they are the same thing. The gaming industry has evolved ENOUGH to become LESS innovative, so, we have a conflict here! Where to evolve now? What to innovate? Technology? New concepts? Just making next-gen consoles isn't a big step on the matter, as well graphically stunning games or gimmicky controllers. Either the industry use more their brain to see not everything is money talk and marketing in the biz or they''ll get stuck for good trying to figure out "the path to the evolution"...

the news I`m waiting for is if I trade my PS3 (to sony) for a brand new PS4 I get a discount or new PS4 games.

...or a new sony PC

What the hell is up with the huge wave of just about everyone saying this? Must be something to it. If the industry doesn't expand our ideas, it is a bad thing. No kidding. Why are they all saying this now?

Sony better "reset" their thinking company-wide. They need to stop charging top dollar for their sub-par electronics when Samsung and LG sell better product at a much lower price point. Wake up Sony... it's not 1985 anymore!

In other news this week, Ico/Shadow of the Colossus producer leaves Sony and Sony closes down Studio Liverpool. Vita still collecting dust.

Nice job with the innovation, boys!

Finally, Sony admits they have had no innovation for the last few generations. There may be hope for them yet.

if they want to innovate, then why did those bastaards close down Studio Liverpool...

Has he not heard of Apple? Their walled garden is doing just fine.

Reset much of the thinking.... no more walled-off consoles... big changes in connectivity.... And Sony bought out OnLive's competitor (who's name I forgot)....

Could it be?? Naaahhh, they wouldn't throw out the entire hardware model... would they? Folks, the PS4 may only cost $100. I hope you've got really good internet connections.

“No entertainment industry can just carry on the way it was. For our industry to thrive and prosper it has to evolve and it has to innovate."

From the pages of "No S#$t Sherlock Weekly"

It's nice to hear more about innovation today, taking a break from the latest COD articles.

Make a Nintendo that can play all games back to the NES and call it a day. That would sell more units than anything else they have dreamed up at this point.