they also announced new wireless controllers, cal rangers and wireless head set.ndrew is the ceo of sony interactive entertainment and joins us here at post 9. welcome. >> good morning. >> how important is it to have a ps 4 prothat looks like it's not a gaming system. maybe vr is going to appeal to people that aren't your traditional gamer. >> what we're trying to do with the announcements yesterday is there's a slimmer lower cost more performance efficient item is something they're very accustomed to and it's part of the natural game plan. it's never happened before in the history of consoles. we tend to be on a very confirmed life cycle and it's a stable platform developers can work on overtime. on this occasion though, your last item, we looked to the mobile industry and consumers seem to be interested and atuned to a different innovation cadence i don't think we want to take them to that kind of a pitch but we thought there was an opportunity midway through the cycle. some of our partners have been asking for this and we're seeing interesting things happening

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