It'll be announced this year.
Started by the-pi-guy, Feb 05, 2018, 08:05 PM
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It'll be announced this year.They should only do that if its releasing like Feb 2020 or earlier. No point announcing PS5 during a holiday season when PS4 could still be selling well. It wouldn't be much of an impact, but announcing PS5 before the holiday sales are done would hurt the PS4 at least somewhat.
They should only do that if its releasing like Feb 2020 or earlier. No point announcing PS5 during a holiday season when PS4 could still be selling well. It wouldn't be much of an impact, but announcing PS5 before the holiday sales are done would hurt the PS4 at least somewhat.Holiday sales will be notably down and largely rely on promotions anyways, just like the rest of the year. Also look at how investors reacted after this quarters results. Imagine how they'll react during an entire year of dropping sales, with no information on the future given.
Holiday sales will be notably down and largely rely on promotions anyways, just like the rest of the year. Also look at how investors reacted after this quarters results. Imagine how they'll react during an entire year of dropping sales, with no information on the future given.I guess its whichever strategy you think would be best. Do you have a pretty poor year, announce almost nothing, and let PS4 sell what it can with a price drop. Then you launch straight into PS5 and have an incredible 2020. This wouldn't strangle any life out of PS4, with people perhaps holding off on games and systems since a PS5 has been announced, probably with BC. But a slow news year would lower playstation's overall momentum, and perhaps do harm to PS5s initial sales.
The rumor is that the original plan was to release the PS5 in 2019, which was then pushed back due to several factors (sales of the PS4, software...), so I would not be surprised if Sony decided to release the PS5 next spring but would be shocked if Sony attempted to drag out this entire year without talking about next gen.
It just feels like PS is in a weird place, because it doesn't really feel like there are enough PS4 games to fill in the space till PS5 releases.Yep its going to be one of these two. And I think it entirely depends on when their studios can have their games ready. They want to have a good launch, so should wait until there's at least a couple big launch exclusives. My guess would be Horizon 2 and something from Japan studio (which would be extremely similar to PS4 launch). But if that's going to take too long then PS4 could have a real dry patch which would hurt the brand.
I basically see it going one of two ways:
PS5 showing late this year, releasing early 2020. Show off the big launch titles. I feel like that's probably the best thing to do, because it'll make the gap smaller.
Otherwise I think Sony will try repeating their PS4 launch year.
Announce it early 2020. Basically spend 8 months hyping up titles.
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