PS5 Will Release Early 2019 (Opinion)

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Nuvendil said:

Highly doubt it. The PS4 jump over the PS3 disappointed initially and wasn't fully appreciated for years. The Pro also disappointed many. Contrary to the current rhetoric, generations need to get *longer* NOT shorter.

I personally anticipate the PS5 in 2021. 2020 at the absolute earliest.   I don't think Sony is concerned with the next Xbox because Microsoft's posturing leaves considerable doubt there will even BE another Xbox after the One line.

Sony isn't going to rush out the gate to get the drop on Xbox. No sense in taking the risk.

I'll add to this a couple of things:

1. There's no reason to come so early when they have a console which is selling like hot cakes and not having something special to really differentiate it from the PS4 (Pro). So unless the PS4 drops much harder than the Wii ever did next year there's simply no reason yet to bring a console that early.

2. 2019 with 4k@60FPS? 2 Problems with that: a) That would be very expensive at that point of time. Like, over PS3 launch price expensive to realise. Sony would need to heavily subvention the price again to sell that console at that point of time. b) Getting that amount of power cooled in a console case. It would need AT LEAST some Vega 64 power and a decent Ryzen processor, which atm take about 400W combined, twice as much as a console can work with. Even with 7nm I don't see the gain substancial enough to make that work at that point of time. c) Such a chip would have about 500 mm² in 7nm, about twice as big as the one in the PS4 (in 28nm) and PS4 Pro (in 14nm). Since the price of chips rises exponantially with their size, that chip alone would be pretty expensive to produce.