PS5 Will Release Early 2019 (Opinion)

[malistix1985]

shikamaru317 said:

malistix1985 said:

Early 2019, holiday 2019, you could both be correct but the chances it will be 2019 are deffenitely there, sony will want to retake the performance crown and sell more consoles, since they make a profit of them and people will continue to play and buy on the ps4 while the ps5 is being introduced, its going to be good times for them if they release in 2019 cuz xbox will need to keep supporting the one X for at least another year at that point.

But we will see, it will be nice to replace my launch ps4 for the ps5 when it arrives :) as long as it has a disc drive, il buy it.

I agree, 2019 just makes sense for Sony. Holiday 2019 gives them a full 2 year power advantage over XB1 X, so probably like 9-10tf to the 6tf on X, which is a big enough improvement over both PS4 and XB1 X. PS5 will indeed sell well that year I agree, but you can't count MS out, the thing with XB1 X is that MS plans to keep supporting it into next-gen supposedly. So all of those XB1 X owners will theoretically be able to play 9th gen games at a lower resolution (1080p on X vs 4k on PS5 and the next-gen Xbox theoretically). So technically MS has the headstart on next-gen sales, since XB1 X and XB4 will be sold side by side for at least a few years. And while PS5 will be $500 on release probably, XB1 X will be down to $300-350 by Holiday 2019 probably, so it will be seen as the budget gen 9 option, which should help it sell well. Even by 2019 a good many gamers still won't have 4K tv's yet, so for those people XB1 X playing gen 9 games at 1080p will be good enough for awhile. The real battle will begin later in gen 9, once most people have 4k tv's, will they get the cheaper and less powerful PS5 or the more powerful, more expensive Xbox 4? 

I expect it to go the route of the pro/one x 

Sony will announce close to end of the year, release a few months after, microsoft will announce the next xbox early next year for the end of the year trying to make people wait to buy the new xbox and the xbox will once again be more premium, will see what people choose. The next 2 years are critical for xbox they need to bring the games