Do you think Sony will do a full reveal of the PS5 or just tease us, next year?

They still have heavy hitters releasing next year with TLOU2 and Death Stranding...plus others.. so they won't show too much and risk de-hyping those games and slowing down what might be PS4's final year as the primary Sony console.

Not a damn thing at all, as long as it continues to sell relatively well. Sony won't want to Osborne Effect its sales.

Tease in beginning of new year

Reveal late 2019

TLOUS2 and death stranding launch games on ps5 still launch on ps4 imo

Well companies don’t usually ‘fully’ reveal their console until very close to launch so since I think that the PS5 will launch in 2020 I don’t think that they’ll ‘fully’ reveal until then. We’ll likely get a fair amount of info on it during the year though in bits and pieces.

2020. I just came back from a time machine. FF7 is going to be released on the PS5 :D

a big tease

Full reveal before 2019 ends.

Maybe reveal around Holidays. Price reveal at E3 2020.

@the-a-baum: Why do that? It would kill PS4 sale's right before Christmas.

@blackhairedhero: I was thinking that too. But from rumors going around. They are saying Sony is doing something early next year and then something major later in the year.

Full reveal of both the Xbox and PS next year.

I keep seeing this. That the PS5 will launch with TLOU2, along with DS or GoT, while also releasing them on PS4.

Wouldn't that be a huge mistake? I mean how impressive could those games be on the PS5 if they also release on the PS4? The Pro will likely run all those games at checkerboard 4k 30 fps. Is the PS5 running them at native 4k 60 fps really a big enough jump for a next gen console?

I know the PS4 had TLOU remastered not too long after it released, but weren't several games on PS4 but not PS3 because the PS3 simply wasn't powerful enough? Same for the XB1. Ryse, Forza 5, SO all didn't release on 360 because the power gap was too big.

A PS5 launch lineup of basically PS4 games seems awfully underwhelming.

You will not get anything from Sony in terms of PS5 hype in 2019. Everything is 2020.

what makes you so sure?

PS4 is still selling like crazy, no way a new system is going to be announced. The ps4 is primed to sell well over 100 million systems, no way Sony screws with that momentum.

@vfighter: I doubt they are worried about hardware momentum at this point. The software attach rate and PS+ retention is probably high enough as it is. People who are buying a PS4 this late in the generation are not the same people that are going to buy a PS5 at launch.

There will not be enough improvement in hardware over the pro and the x1x to release new hardware until 2021. If new machines come out prior to that they'll either be expensive or underwhelming performance wise.

The PS4 is selling like hot cakes plus we still have heavy hitters like TLOU2, Death Stranding, Ghost of Tsushima, etc coming out next year..

So yeah, Sony isn't saying anything about a their next gen system anytime soon.

I think Sony will tease the PS5 next year, and push a few titles back to the PS5 (Death Stranding, probably The Last of Us 2).

Full information and release in 2020.

I also think the PS4 will get maybe two exclusive releases next year, with no more exclusives announced for 2020 or beyond.

Probably a tease in 2019 with a full reveal in 2020. They've already hinted at it.

All this talk from Sony CEO telling us PS4 is in its "twilight years" even though its enjoying record breaking sales tells me that they are gearing up seriously for PS5.

@Steppy_76: a 12tflop gpu, 8c16t zen2 cpu, and 16-24GB GDDR6 is not a leap over the current consoles? I beg to differ.

I think Google buys Sony the company, and maybe see a PS5 in a couple years.

I still think they'll do a full reveal at a separate event in early 2020, and release later that year.

I believe there will be full PS5 reveal at E3.

Sony does not mess about like MS does. They are all business. When they got something, they show it.

Of course, with MS its hard to show anything when you got nothing...

I expect Sony to be an utter ghost in 2019. They have some big exclusives to clear into retail before they mess with the golden goose that is the PS4 business. I do not expect Sony to talk about PS5 at all until 2020, and likely late 2020 at that.

they won't be doing E3 next year :(

Not a damn thing till 2020 at least.

I think they'll push out the remaining PS4 exclusives spread over next year but announce the ps5 next year with a teased reveal.

@henrythefifth: Sony is not going to have a E3 conference 2019.

Yup and also no PS experience this year.

It's clear as day that they'll announce a reveal event for PS5 next year.

They did this too with PS4.

@mandzilla said:

Easily the best post. Thanks for the contribution!

None. I believe next year PS4 will sell like crazy and get tons of support, but sony will not be very vocal. It will be the calm before the storm.

PS5 will be announced early 2020, to be released in the fall of the same year.

I prefer and recommend that Sony tell us all the major information in one sitting. That said, the PS5 is a foregone conclusion, so it’s a matter of when do you start distracting the audience from the PS4 and its offerings. There’s never a perfect time, just instances where it’s better to start than to not.

Since they’re not attending E3, my hunch is they’re going to say something before then. But they need to address how PS4 games will be considered in the PS5 ecosystem if they want to avoid a hearty slump in their retail performance.

Nothing. Won’t come til 2020. They still have days gone, dreams, death stranding, last of us part 2, concrete genie, medievil remake, ff7 timed exclusivity, and potentially WiLd providing it didn’t get canceled.

Microsoft on the other hand only has crackdown 3 and potentially halo infinite although that could be years away. We can guarantee we will get another forza game and gears 5 next year too along with any other surprises they may bring. However it’s mostly indie titles like ori 2.

Nintendo’s promises are years away too. Open world pokemon, mainline fire emblem console game, Metroid prime 4 with no gameplay. The only thing they will for sure bring next year is that Yoshi game.

I do not see Sony revealing anything hardware related because of this. They have too much software coming and we know Nintendo will not show anything since switch just released and neither will Microsoft since Xbox one x just released.

You really think you'll get that for 399?

@Steppy_76: Playstation 5 will be $499, and yes give or take 10% those will likely be the specifications. Good deal if you ask me.

2020 at the earliest.

Announcing in late 2019 would put everyone in 'wait' mode right before the holidays which would not look good on the financial reports.

If they're not releasing before holiday season 2019, I don't think we'll hear anything.

I don't know, I'm skeptical of getting that much power even at that price in a small form factor without it sounding like a jet engine. I still firmly believe we're looking at 2021 for that to be feasible.

@shellcase86: De nada. :D

With those AAA exclusive games you listed being bigger and better than anything released on Xbox one this entire generation and people already mistaking them for next gen titles when first shown, no it doesn't seem underwhelming at all if PS5 is running those games 4k 60.

How TF can those games seem underwhelming when Nintendo literally did the same thing with wii coming off gamecube and the Switch coming off Wii U with Zelda using virtually the same assets n performance but still sold gangbusters on new systems?

It's only underwhelming if the games themselves are underwhelming...and that's a problem that you should be more worried about MS for going into next gen not Sony.