Official: PlayStation 5 Will Not Be Launched Within The Next 12 Months

Remember the previous rumour from Pastebin which claims that the PlayStation 5 will be announced in June? It looks like Sony has just shot that one out of the sky, as the company has confirmed that the console won’t launch within the next 12 months.

As reported by Takashi Mochizuki of the Wall Street Journal, this fact was confirmed by a PR representative from Sony Interactive Entertainment. This leaves May of 2020 as the earliest possible month for the announcement of PS5 although we predict that the company could be aiming for the year-end holiday season instead.

Sony:
-No next-gen PlayStation launch over next 12 months
-PS Now has been ave. 40% annual growth since launch, now 700,000 users
-Much of Y31.1 billion (difference between past fy op vs this fy op outlook) to be invested to develop next PlayStation console

— Takashi Mochizuki (@mochi_wsj) April 26, 2019

Previously, Sony did officially reveal a number of things regarding the upcoming next-generation PlayStation console. For example, it will sport a custom 7nm AMD Ryzen CPU, and a Radeon GPU based on the 7nm Navi architecture. Ray-tracing and 8K will also be supported on the next-generation PlayStation console.

It’s nice that we got more official information regarding the PS5’s announcement’s date. Unfortunately, this also means that we’ll have to wait longer for it. Who knows, maybe Sony will announce it early in E3 of 2020? That’s of course assuming the company doesn’t take a rain check for the event as it did for this year’s.

(Source: Takashi Mochizuki / Twitter via The Verge)

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