Sony boss on PlayStation 4: its success is good for the whole games industry

Andrew House talks PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR and PlayStation Now, and even praises his counterpart at Microsoft

Two years ago, industry pundits were declaring the inevitable death of the specialist games console. Before the launch of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, it looked like consumers had moved on from expensive specialist games hardware, toward smartphones, tablets and other formats.

But Andrew House, who as president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment is the ultimate boss of Sony's PlayStation division, always had faith. And now he has the sale figures too. In November, PlayStation 4 passed the 30m global sales milestone, two months earlier in its lifecycle than the PlayStation 2, which ended up selling more than 155m units, making it officially the best-selling console in history.