Consoles are selling faster than ever and this year has seen plenty of great games. But that doesn't mean that the console's existence can be taken for granted, and in an interview, the PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida, he says it's a constant struggle to stay relevant when the competing technology is changing the rules for gaming.
"Like Michael Pachter saying console is dead, or this is the last console generation, I feel we've been fighting against obsolescence."
Yoshida continues and says that even today's huge sales numbers for PlayStation 4 doesn't necessarily reflect a bigger interest in console gaming:
"Even when PS4 is doing well, you might look at the sales, the fast pace of PS4 sales, we may be just selling to the same people faster, right! That's a sad view of things, but it could be the case."
Yoshida says Sony needs to find a new way to attract gamers and expand the console's popularity. This is one of the reasons they are launching PlayStation VR, which they hope will lead to a wider audience:
"PlayStation VR has broader applications than the games, and demos we've been doing, the very first demo we provided was The Deep. It has no gameplay at all. Anyone can enjoy it.
"Of course there's a challenge of pricing and whatnot, but in the future we position PlayStation VR not as a peripheral to VR, but as a virtual reality system that makes use of PS4. We're hoping in the future that people might pick up PlayStation VR and PS4 not only for the games, but for other entertainment usage."