Sony Financials Suggest the PS5 Won't Release Before April 2020

Ahhh.....that all important word "BUNCE"

Was hoping for a spring launch. Bummer :/

that's what i always thought tbh.

price,games,the look of the console etc will all be revealed on e3 2020 with a november/december release date. just like the ps4.

maybe an extra state of play style vid all about the ps5 in early 2020 to show the specs and game concepts to the public. (kinda what they did for that wired article but for a bigger audience.

Hmm almost thought they were gonna pull a Switch and launch it in March...

Oh well was hoping for March 2020 release as the ps4 hardware is starting to struggle...wonder if MS will jump the gun and release before sony if not then October/November next year could be VERY interesting

As long as Sony doesn't wait too long otherwise the hardware will be a tad outdated upon release 🤔

Isnt that the guy who was saying the ps5 would release in 2018?😇

https://attackofthefanboy.com/news/analyst-predicts-playstation-5-will-launch-2018/

Hope it’s a late summer release or something. I just don’t want to deal with the whole hardware shortages issues. (Granted I managed to have 3 launch ps4’s preordered for me and my buddies)

I was thinking Easter 2020 would be a good time to get stock in order before the Christmas rush so thats a bit of a shame. I'll fine with waiting mind. Not in any rush.

Probably be October next year then. Although early September would be better for me personally. That's my Birthday month 😁

@JJ2 According to the article you linked, no, it isn't — he was just relaying the prediction.

@ShogunRok
He posted that twice on twitter at 6 months interval and wrote articles in WSJ about. He seemed to have a good amount of faith in it.

Also relaying the prediction while I dismissed it straighaway. And most reasonable people dismissed it aside from of course, the press

Here

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sony-expects-operating-profit-to-surge-to-4-5-billion-1493360553

Early 2020 always seemed good to me. Well since I stopped believing in late 2019 about a year ago.

Yes, the PS4 hardware is still selling well, but what games are going to carry PS4 sales, and more importantly PS4 gamers, throughout the first 9 months of 2020 if PS5 releases in October?

Sony still does have 3 games we know about, Death Stranding, Ghost, and TLoU2, but surely 1 of those has to come out this year, and 1 early next year. And I don't see Death Stranding as a huge game, more niche.

Going to be a really so slog the next 18 months if that's the case. Drip, drip, drip. And while we already know no Sony at E3 surely they must have something planned for around that time period. Though if no PS5 until holiday 2020 then maybe not.

Maybe PS can get crickets playing as background noise for the website for the next 12 months?

@JJ2 True, but a prediction is one thing — reporting on Sony's official financials is another thing entirely. I think we can put a lot more stock into this.

@JoeBlogs I know. I'm looking forward to Concrete Genie myself, and Dreams has to get out of early access at some point. And all the 3rd party support - sports and FPS. But Sony lives by it's 1st party games - HZD, GoW, Spiderman - alongside all of that. Days Gone seems to be getting a mediocre reception. TLoU2 will do great whenever it releases. Ghosts of Tukishima should do ok, but we've seen very little of it.

But sites like this need to talk about games. Games like DQ and KH. Sony probably won't start talkign about PS5 games until they really officially announce PS5. If PS5 were due out in Feb, March or April, they could announce it now, talk up the games soon. W/ a holiday 2020 release they likely wouldn't announce it until early 2020. That gives MS and Nintnedo plenty of time to promote the NextBox and Switch. I just think it's too long to remain quiet. The sooner they say PS5 the sooner we get to talk about HZD 2 and GoW 2, maybe even Spiderman 2.

I'm kinda sick of hearing about Shenmue 3 already but after August that's also one less game to talk about.

Sony doesn't exist in a vacuum, MS and Nintnedo are out there as well.

They know better than I do, but I think it's too long to wait. And I like an early year release, sell a few million to early adopters, let the rest of us get it during the holiday, and have all summer long to promote the holiday. If PS5 doesn't launch until holiday 2020 I probably wont' even try to get 1 until holiday 2021.

I've said late 2020 all along.

PS2 is the only one which hasn't launched in the last 2 months of the respective year.

@Neolit don't want sony to release too early though.

the xbox 360 suffered with it infamous ring of death for a while.

releasing a couple months before the next xbox would be great but maybe not by 6 months.

My money is on autumn 2020, probably November

sony ALWAYS releases its hardware in the fall. why expect them to change that now? the switch was the only anomaly i can think of which released in spring, but that was due to nintendo being desperate and rushing a product to market. they were hurting pretty bad from the wii u and needed cash to start flowing again.

November 2020.word up son

I never buy a console at launch but I am considering it saving up this time round now

My guess would be November 2020, continuing the release pattern set by PS3 (November 2006) and PS4 (November 2013).

@Kidfried "Doom Eternal, Cyberpunk, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Wild, Nioh 2, Beyond Good and Evil 2, Watch Dogs 3"

"Seems like you're trying to see negativity where there isn't."

I think the problem is I see PS5 games where you see PS4 games. Not all of those, but I think FF7R, Cyberpunk, BG&E2 are next gen. W_D3 could be both.

And I don't see how it isn't negative that a console some of us have been expecting to come out in 2019, a few people on here even thought 2018 at some point, isn't coming out until maybe late 2020. I just don't see how that isn't a negative. Sorry, that's just how I see it. Which is why I even now still think it may launch in the 1st half of 2020 b/c it just makes more sense to me.

The sooner it launches the sooner they can start talking about the games the more hype they build. Within reason. The later it launches the later they can start talking about the games the more people look elsewhere to spend their entertainment $ in the meantime.

If somebody told you every year over the next 6 years Christmas would be moved back a month, Jan, Feb, March, April, May, June, b/c people wanted it to be in summer to have more time to go shopping, would that be positive or negative? Anything I'm looking forward to that I have to wait longer for is a negative.

Soft launch (Spring) worked well for Nintendo.

Might not be a bad way to go for PS5.

Unless they have a ton of stunning games ready to go.

Then doing the Holidays/Fall would work as usual.

@rjejr Some of us aren't rich and wait 3-5 years to buy a console and would like to get it before it's yesteryear's news. With your logic it would be even better if Sony released a console every year like i devices.

I personally like getting both Nintendo's and Sony's hardware each generation which the past two generations has been 4 system's in-total. There's no way in heck the average person can splurge and get all 4 within a timely manner given the cost of living. 2018 would have been absolutely ridiculous and unheard of. Five years is the average, but consoles that sell well always last 6-8 years because why chance releasing hardware that might underperform when you have a console that's still selling like hotcakes?

@TowaHerschel7 Not every year, but every 5 or 6 years would be good.

Look, I don't need a new console, I don't even have a 4k TV, and after the ending of GoW I feel like they SHOULD put out the rest of the game on PS4, b/c that cliff-hanger ending was kinda rough, but if they are going to make us buy a new console for GoW2, and HZD2, well the sooner the PS5 launches the sooner the price will come down and the sooner we all can buy 1. So either release the games on the current console or release the new console. If companies are making games that can only be played on the new console then launch it. Wii U lasted 4 years b/c nobody was making games for it.

PS - 95
PS2 - 00
PS3 - 06
PS4 - 13

5, 6, 7 years, that's how longs it's been. 2020 would be 7 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation

@rjejr Also remember that as a whole consoles have been getting fewer games than pre-HD era due to increased development time. Usually releases increase exponentially during the final stretch of a console in this HD/4K era. Even dropping a year off of the generation could cause most of the best third party games to not be released and be pushed to next generation. It would likely cause most generational titles to be released once every two generations instead as well.

No surprise here. It won't be released this year and Sony have released most of their consoles towards the end of the year. Also they will most likely announce it at E3 2020. I would bet on a September or October release.

@TowaHerschel7 "It would likely cause most generational titles to be released once every two generations instead as well."

It does seem hard for companies to find that middle ground, doesn't it. Either we get games every year like CoD and AC or once a gen like Mario Kart or SSBU. Of course nowadays w/ DLC you can make a game last, but I'm good w/ a new game every 2 or 3 years, depending on the game. Direct sequels like Tomb Raider and God of War could be sooner, disconnected games could be longer. Wii had SMG and SMG2, LoZ:TP and LoZ:SS, though TP was also on Gamecube. But 2 games per gen would be fine.

And then there's the other side of the equation w/ people waiting 10 years for Half-Life 3, Duke Nukem Forever, FFXV, BG&E2 if you count the 2009 leak. The Last Guardian skipped a gen. Dreams is barley making this gen.

Developers may complain that gamers are needy whiners but they do give us ample reason to complain. Maybe next gen those devs can do a better job at predicting WHEN their games will come out? Stop rushing out broken games, stop trying to rush out yearly sequels, stop crunch time, but be straight with us about release dates.

But I think for the entire industry newer hardware sooner rather than later helps. Within reason. I don't need yearly hardware. Next gen hardware every 6 years, improved models every 3, seems like a workable timeline.