If PS4 Neo is not announced at E3 can we still expect it to be released this year?

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Honestly at this point it just seems like a bad idea imho.

I think they should have just 'slim' refreshed the PS4 with a pure die-shrink and BD4K. They could have hit $199 with that. Then wait for 2nd gen 14nm production and HBM2 to make PS5 a ludicrous (and fully BC!) system in 2019. Something with 10tflops+ would be pretty straightfoward then.

If they go ahead with Neo (and I see zero evidence to the contrary), then PS5 is basically out of the question for a while yet unless they want to piss off double the people. This is kind of what happened to Sega.

Happy Genesis fans :

okay, we'll buy a Sega CD
what, now a Sega 32X add-on? Fine.
what, now a totally new console called the Saturn? Ehhhh, okay.
what, the Saturn is already done, and you want us to buy the Dreamcast? Yeah right.

The Dreamcast was a fantastic piece of hardware, but they crippled their own market by repeatedly shifting hardware so fast. PS1 had ate their lunch, and most people just waited for PS2, leaving Sega dead in the water.

I'm not saying Sony is in the same situation, but it's some of the same mistakes. Hardware is NOT needed right now, what we need is the promised software releases to keep coming steady. It's been a pretty slow gen for 1st party so far, and going possibly PS4 > PS4 Neo / PSVR > PS5 in succession may saturate/divide their market.

The same exact problems are faced by MS, only I think they're perhaps even more vulnerable as they've already lost a ton of marketshare globally since Gen7. Risking anything else is poor form. It's not like the X1 fell behind PS4 much because of the performance gap.