Sony's just held a corporate strategy meeting in a bid to outline its plans for the company's future — but it's a separate interview with PlayStation Productions boss Asad Qizilbash that's really caught our eye. You may remember Qizilbash from a couple of PlayStation events that took place a few years back — a clearly charismatic speaker who's since gone on to lead the business' push into film and TV. In the interview, Qizilbash is asked about what he thinks the future looks like for PlayStation and gaming in general — and his thoughts are actually quite eye-opening.
Right off the bat, he says: "In terms of gaming's future, I envision games becoming more personalized due to advances in technology and AI, enabling customized experiences for each player." Essentially, Qizilbash reckons that video games are going to become more and more about grabbing people emotionally, through enhancements to storytelling and design that tries to speak directly to the player. "Technological advancements will enhance emotional depth in games by allowing characters to be much more emotive and expressive, fostering more evocative storytelling.
That's going to help a whole generation of creators be able to just create so much more emotion in the stories," he predicts. He continues: "The focus is going to shift from graphics or visuals to immersive narratives that resonate long after the controller is set down." Interesting .
Qizilbash also believes that we've turned a bit of a corner when it.