In a conversation with Edge Online, Sony executive Michael Denny spoke quite a bit about PlayStation 4, discussing the “five-year journey” he’s taken with the console since its inception in 2008.

Talking about the PS4’s reveal event in New York City this past February, Denny noted that the “vision” behind PS4 “is fairly simple.” In short, Sony is “looking at making a next-gen console for gamers and made by gamers.”

He later continued, talking about lessons learned from PlayStation 3, and Sony’s perpetual want to also “reach as broad a gaming audience as possible… whilst being a system that’s deep, connected, rich and immersive and is going to give a very focused and differentiated experience than anything else that’s out there.”

But another of Denny’s comments is likely to please PlayStation fans: “There’s plenty of time, we’ve got lots of information yet to give out on PlayStation 4,” he admitted. “The initial announcement phase that we’re in now is just to explain the vision to everybody. Part of that vision is we have created a console absolutely focused on gamers – and we want that to be gamers in the broadest sense as well. I think to some extent I can ask you to draw your own conclusions.”

PlayStation 4 is set to come out later in 2013, and will likely hit the market around the same time as Microsoft’s still-unannounced successor to the Xbox 360, codenamed Durango.

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