Sure they could. They haven't made march a release date for PS that I remember but sure they could.

The point is just that they wouldn't skip E3 to reveal PS5 on close weeks to it.

Would be to boring of a bet. You think they are going more premium, I think they want mass market price. So Below 450 I win, above 450 you win, on 450 we both lose =p and change avatars. At least we chose good games.

SW will make it a monster... LOD2 and SR3 as launch titles =O

So 449 and below mine, 451 and above yours. 450 we double KO

Too low? 8GB is already more than double of what the PS4/Pro works with. There are way too many posters in here with "PC Gaming" mindsets. 12 GB reserved for video games/developers? That's batshit crazy and absolutely will not be the case... That's just dumb.

People in here need to stop thinking of the PS5 specs as if they were building a gaming PC. Like seriously, stop...

Uhmmm... no. The PS4 uses 5GB of RAM, I think the Pro boosted it to 5.5. And again, the X1X is using 9GB of RAM for games, 12GB in total.

The 8th gen consoles launched in 2013 with 8GB of RAM. You really think 16GB of RAM for 9th gen is too high? I feel an expectation of 12GB to 16GB for games is actually realistic when you consider all of that.

Do you really think 9th gen consoles will launch with less memory than a X1X? That's would be pretty amazing.

Back in 1994 and then in 2000 if anyone had come and said anything for $399 it would have been DOA. And now $399 (thanks to the 360 and the PS3 costing $200 more) is considered as entry level pricing.

I really think next gen we will see $499 consoles and I don't think it will be a problem. Mostly because I dont believe that the XB1 being $500 was why it did poorly. If yu really think abut it from the time it got diskinected it has mostly cost less than the PS4. 

How does everyone seem to forget that the PS2 released in march in japan first? r that the PS4 released in febuary in japan months after its western debut.

I agree with you on the timing though..... though I feel you are attaching to much relevance to E3....... simple truth is that its not what it used to be. And really what is it? A show where someone comes n stage and they show games that are live streamed? Well that can be done at any pint in the year. Especially not at a time when every other publisher is now having their own show....

Once upon a time E3 was Sony/nintendo/MS showing their games and sharing the third party publishers then the rest f the world having to wait abut a month for the news to hit magazines. Then that became waiting hours for news to hit websites. Now we watch them live..... and now we having almost every major publisher having their own show.

I dont really get what you are saying......

PS4 has 8GB of RAM and 5GB of that is reserved for Devs and 3GB for the OS.

I am also guessing you would have been among those that considered it bat shit crazy when rumors f the current gen consoles suggested they were going from having 512MB to having 4GB of 8GB of RAM.

Unless next gen consoles are not using GDDR6 RAM (which is pretty much ridiculous to think they won't) the lowest they can go and still have respectable bandwidth is 16GB. The primary package for GDDR6 are 16Gb chips. Look at it this way, look at the MB of the PS4/PS4 pro. There are 8 chips of RAM there. Now replace those 8Gb(1GB) GDDR5 chips with 16Gb(2GB) GDDR6 ad yu effectively have 16GB of RAM while only increasing cost by about 30% of what it would cst them t put that 8GB right now. And significantly less than what it cost in 2013. 

That's called inflation.

Just because gaming PCs market is evolving slowly outside of high-end, I can expect an agreement between Sony and AMD, and between MS and AMD too, to use semicustom lightweight Zen 3 cores, and not late Zen 2 ones, the deal would give Sony and MS the maximum possible efficiency at a decent price and they'd give AMD in return quite a large initial market for its latest architecture and some help in the final phases of development and testing. BTW, just like it happened with PS4 and XBOne, PS5 and XBTwo would become a sort of unofficial HW reference platforms for PC gaming too, PC gamers would know that that HW power, plus some more to take into account the lower efficiency of PC compared with consoles with the same HW, would give them a machine able to run next gen games at acceptable performances, not to mention that as Zen 3, even in lightweight versions, is going to be quite a longer leap forward from previous gens than Jaguar compared with previous PC hardware, PC gamers could finally have a bigger incentive for a major upgrade than what they had when current gen started.

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Richard from digital foundry already said don’t be surprised if these new consoles have 24GB oh ram and he has reliable sources.

also 8GB being more than double PS4? Isn’t 5GB available to developers in the base system? And was’t PS4’s ram well above the PC average at launch (5 versus 2-4)?

For people who think there will be 2 PS5 models at launch, what exactly is the difference you think $100-200 is going to make?

Remember the whole basis of the 2 Xbox models is that one is essentially going to be a weak 1080p entry console at X1X level spec in 2020 ($299?). I just can’t see Sony doing that and without the base system being intentionally gimped, I don’t see how a premium at launch would offer a marketable difference.

Maybe Checkerboard 4K versus Native 4K could be the point but I’m not sure that’s compelling enough and regardless of how often the base PS5 hits 4K they’re going to market it as a 4K system just like the Pro. Also consider the cost inefficiency and slowing of production at launch by offering 2 different internal specs, and the chance to completely misjudge the demand for one system over another... it just doesn’t seem realistic.

A premium 4 years in with more raytraving capabilities, resolution boost (since not all PS5 games will hit 4K) stability & better HDD/SSD, generally higher graphics settings would make more sense and be far more financially viable and less disruptive to their marketing.