| exclusive_console said: PS4P Slim will probably be announced at E3 next year. Sony have great games line up for next year and IMO should focus on games for 2019 as well. I do not understand the need for a new gen so early. Moreover they need to analyze how the X is selling and if people are interested in 500$ mid gen upgrade? then I would think 500$ new gen console will be on cards. But 2019 makes no sense. With PS4P Slim and games they are good for couple of years at least. |
Oh but Sony will focus on PS4 games for BOTH 2018 and 2019, I only said the PS5 will release at the END of 2019. The reason why they will announce the PS5 at E3 2018 (just announce, nothing more) is to steal the thunder from the Xbox One X, because that's what Microsoft did, by announcing the X long in advance, in everybody's mind the X "is" and not "will be" the most powerful system ever. Nobody consciously realized that the X's power did not matter until November 7 2017, before that the most powerful console ever was the PS4 Pro, yet people acted as if the X being the king was a thing of the present when it was not.
I don't see Sony willingly letting the X being the king of power for too long, especially since the actual release of the PS5 is much later (End of 2019) so saying nothing about it until that far off in the future seems like letting the X establish itself.
Also, how is a PS5 releasing at the end of 2019 an "early release" ? That would make it 6 full years after the release of the PS4 (End of 2013) and 3 full years after the mid-gen system that is the Pro (End of 2016).
And why do you say that Sony needs to see if people are interested in mid gen upgrades? They have lots of time to do that later because the PS5 is NOT a mid-gen system, it's a NEW gen system, I'm sure you understand that. So the mid-gen argument is not relevant here.
