Why would they screw up their PS4 2019 holiday sales by annoucing a successor when they could announce and release in the same year?

Hopefully we can get the PS5 in 2018, we need to stop limiting our games to the jaguar.

I think you're the one who's going to be disappointed if you think we won't.  Most likely not the 18 GB of RAM, as 16GB is more realistic, but the GPU will definitely be ~12 Tflops.  AMD's new Vega 10 is 12.5 Tflops, which I think is realistically what Sony will put in the PS5.  There's even a shot that they put a 15 Tflops Vega 20 in it, if it's out in time and cheap enough by the time the PS5 launches.

Reading through superchunk 200 page prediction thread about xbox one and ps4, nobody was able to guess the ps4 spec. So I assume everyone will be wrong again about ps5.

But I will try anyway for fun :)

- 4 core zen cpu, it will be zen2 the newest architecture. Won't be a 8 core cpu reason for this is 8 core has a die size of 190mm2. It is just way to big even 4 core seems abit to big. Other reason is 4 core is cheaper and will be able to clock higher than 8 core in a small package.

- Midrange nvidia gpu, the architecture will be whatever comes after volta. Expect around 11 Tf and around 1080 ti performance. The reason I put nvidia is just that Amd gpus are just falling so far behind Nvidia that Sony and Microsoft will have no choice but to go nvidia next gen.

- 16 gb of ram. Ram pricing is just not dropping so I assume anything more will be to expensive. Maybe we see 24gb.

- 2tb non ssd drive. I just don't believe ssd prices will drop enough and even if it did Sony still probably go with 2 tb mechanical drive.

Price 399$ released 2020 oct-nov. 2019 possible as 7nm will be ready by than. But 2020 is more probable for numerable reasons.

Bad news is, NO backward compability.

Edit: Forgot, expect pretty much all AAA games to be 4k checkerboard rendering. The performance gain from using checkerboard is just to big (around 100 %). So I expect pretty much 0 new AAA games use native 4k in ps5. And still 30 fps, but will probably see more 60 fps games because of a improved cpu.

LOL. Not quite. AMD is doing just fine with the new Vega line.

Reading through superchunk 200 page prediction thread about xbox one and ps4, nobody was able to guess the ps4 spec. So I assume everyone will be wrong again about ps5.

But I will try anyway for fun :)

- 4 core zen cpu, it will be zen2 the newest architecture. Won't be a 8 core cpu reason for this is 8 core has a die size of 190mm2. It is just way to big even 4 core seems abit to big. Other reason is 4 core is cheaper and will be able to clock higher than 8 core in a small package.

- Midrange nvidia gpu, the architecture will be whatever comes after volta. Expect around 11 Tf and around 1080 ti performance. The reason I put nvidia is just that Amd gpus are just falling so far behind Nvidia that Sony and Microsoft will have no choice but to go nvidia next gen.

- 16 gb of ram. Ram pricing is just not dropping so I assume anything more will be to expensive. Maybe we see 24gb.

- 2tb non ssd drive. I just don't believe ssd prices will drop enough and even if it did Sony still probably go with 2 tb mechanical drive.

Price 399$ released 2020 oct-nov. 2019 possible as 7nm will be ready by than. But 2020 is more probable for numerable reasons.

Bad news is, NO backward compability.

Edit: Forgot, expect pretty much all AAA games to be 4k checkerboard rendering. The performance gain from using checkerboard is just to big (around 100 %). So I expect pretty much 0 new AAA games use native 4k in ps5. And still 30 fps, but will probably see more 60 fps games because of a improved cpu.

Sounds more like a higher end PS4 model to me. Not enough extra oomph to deliver a next gen expereince. If this is all they could deliver in 2019 or 2020, then I think they should just call it PS4 _____. Save the PlayStation 5 branding until they can deliver a device worthy of the title, and something that can deliver a real evolution in some way or another. Just my take on though, but props if this turns out to be close or on the money.

It won't happen as the new AMD APU would be too new and expensive.