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EricHiggin on 25 February 2020
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taus90 said:

JRPGfan said:

4) Sony is keeping quiet, because they want to announce the PS5 at a lower price point than Xbox Series X.

Sony has PS4 selling well enough, and still wants to keep selling games on it, so announceing early doesnt make too much sense.
Rather, keeping quiet for aslong as possible, is a way to ensure extra profits. Ontop of this, they want to make 100% sure, that if their unit is "weaker" than the series X, that its atleast sold cheaper.  Until Xbox comes out offically with a price point, Sony wont mention anything.

If PS5 is actually weaker, rather than go into a "spec numbers" war with Xbox series X on social media, they ll just show a sleugh of fantastic looking games & exclusives, and announce a cheaper price point.

ok valid points.. but sony has already announced PS5 if they really didn't want to hurt PS4 sales.. then they wouldnt have bothered wired article and keeping everything tight..

By now everything is locked.. apart from the price, coz its at E3 when MS is going to announce the price.. and I m surely certain that sony is not going to hang around till then to properly reveal the console and let ms have all the mind share till e3. Nobody is asking to reveal the price but assuming that sony will wait for ms to reveal the price first is just ridiculous 

I would guess that SNY 'purposely marched a small army over the hill to get MS to think they very well may have the upper hand, and to advance most of the troops asap to finish the battle quickly. Truth is SNY has a much larger army waiting patiently behind the hill still.'

SNY would've done this to get MS to show their hand early. By starting up the hype train so soon yet so softly, it's hard to believe that MS didn't expect another Feb timed PS console reveal, which meant they had to get info out asap. XB1X ended up a year behind Pro, which didn't really work out well for it, and MS may think it was more so the timing than the specs that were the problem. MS has however realized that SNY is tactically positioned, so at this point in the battle, even though MS has moved past the small group of PS 'soldiers', they have little choice but to continue forward or retreat. With how many people there are constantly dying to hear about new info (the troops being all jacked up for a serious battle), MS has little choice but to continue forward and hope for the best. Retreat at this time would look super weak on their part. However SNY may be wondering, 'does MS have a smaller back up 'Lockhart' army hidden in the trees though, and if so, how do we cautiously proceed?' Is MS partially being aggressive because they do have backup troops awaiting orders to advance?

PS may want time for many reasons. PS4 sales is one. PS5 pricing is another, depending on whether Lockhart comes to market or not vs a single PS5 SKU. Hardware is possible. If PS is arranging for a Lockhart competitor in case it actually get's announced, or another type of device, it's best they wait to see what MS is bringing. If MS is 'crazy' enough to launch Lockhart, what else might they try and launch, especially with all this "play anywhere" talk?

Too many possibilities for things to backfire against SNY. Until SNY knows more they are going to want to hold their advantage as long as possible before making any moves that may end up costing them. With PS3 SNY was on unstable ground and so being aggressive wasn't a bad idea with PS4. MS is now in that same type of position. The difference will be whether SNY screwed up PS5 like MS did XB1, which after PS3 and XB1, I don't know how either could mess up all that much going forward. We'll see.