Sony president on PS4 successor: “It’s necessary to have a next-generation hardware”

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LiquorandGunFun said:
looking forward to February, not only a shit load of game releases, but something tells me ps5 announcement as well. i will be out there at midnight for one, and have another preorder online to flip to make most if not all my money back like last time, broke even with ps4 launch, i was able to buy alot of games.

I think you're on the money. If I were Sony I'd release PS5 ASA-freaking-P. And it will come soon for many reasons. It's a common fact that Navi is being prepared with Sony for PS5. Navi GPUs will hit the market in the first half of 2019 - what's the use of having your own technology and keeping it on a shelf? AMD CPUs are awesome and ready to be put into a console, they are now releasing 7nm Vega GPUs, so the 7nm process will be mature enough for next year to produce efficiently, they will have Navi - why should Sony wait? What for? The bloody new economic crisis that is looming and I'd be absolutely shocked if it wasn't here by November 2019? If I worked at Sony I'd try to move mountains to release PS5 before sh!t hits the fan and the economy collapses again and we are overdue for that at this point. Trust me, it's not fun releasing an electronic entertainment device in the middle of an economic crisis with people cutting spendings left and right.