| GribbleGrunger said: Yep. Sony are promoting the Pro as a mid gen upgrade. It's MS that are leaning on the 4K/60fps promotions. That's my point. Sony can afford to gain a 1 year lead if they wish. |
1. Sony has no need to release a new console antime soon. They are by far the market leader, the PS4 is still selling extremly strong and its highly doubtable the One X could get any significant market share (to expensive, 4k is to irrelevant in the mainstream).
2. Sony is currently building on VR. Just launched 1 year ago, they will want to make sure to get a significant market share here before jumping to the next console. The PSVR has the price of a full console, they wont made it obsolete within 2,5 years and they wont make it compatible to the ps5 either (but make a full new VR headset, wireless, inside/out tracking, new controllers, no light tracking , no camera and so on).
3. Future consoles will most likely not be about 4k/60 but about VR anyway. Sony is currently using their market share of the ps4 to help jump start this technology (as seen with the PSVR sucess (=so far ~2 mio sold)) its still not as easy as expected. The One X cant even do that currently, so I cant see sony getting nervous.
4. The One X does nothing a current pc cant do. If 4k would be as important and some people think, sony would have already troubles because of high end pcs. This is not the case.
5. The One X is also way to expensive to hurt the ps4 (200$) or even ps4 pro (350$). A gaming console @500$ wont effect the ps4 sales at all.
I expect the PS5 to be released in 2021 or 2022 alongside the PSVR 2. Many people will have tried VR by then and so will be excited about it and the technology will be matured and affordable.
