Don't Expect Sony to Announce the PlayStation 5 at E3 This Year

[Auditore]

I don't believe PS5 will be console hardware at all. It should become fiber / cloud service , where all you need to buy is a controller, connected to 5GHz AC3 wifi, and a subscription plan to play the entire Sony library of games, for $299 a year.

The future will be digital but we are not there yet,a few years ago Microsoft tried to go full Cloud computing with subscription and it blew on their faces.

 

[inCloud]

You're probably (correct me if I'm wrong) looking at it from the perspective of what it takes to run the resolution on PC

Current consoles are basically PCs,so yes. There are much bigger chances that they would like to hold 60fps, than native 4K.

 

[Downhill Dino]

Dude...Red Dead Redemption 2 took 8 years to make,you think GTA VI will arrive in 2020?

How about a new Elder Scrolls then? That would be a big console release game too.

 

[MrCrynox]

Will it be backward compatible ? I'm hoping thanks to MS it will be..

 

[Wolfe]

The last years of PS3 era were a nightmare with low framerates or bad resolution games compared to what PC could do at this time. I don't want to see the same scenario AGAIN.

Instead of putting out a game with struggling framerates, developers can simply not overload the console with unnecessarily glitzy visuals or infinitesimal details. 💡 It's their responsibility, not the hardware.

With fewer polys and smaller textures you can also allow for things like weather effects or dynamic time of day, like you want for GT Sport, or more objects and NPCs/AI to flesh out the world and make it seem more alive. I feel like most 3D games have made little progress on that kind of stuff over the past 20 years, just running on a visual fidelity treadmill.

I don't believe PS5 will be console hardware at all. It should become fiber / cloud service , where all you need to buy is a controller, connected to 5GHz AC3 wifi, and a subscription plan to play the entire Sony library of games, for $299 a year.

Personally, I'm at a loss to understand the appeal of this arrangement. Ping is physically impossible to overcome, and would be worse than the input latency on HDTVs. I don't want to think about trying to play a game with both of those things together.

Then there are the rights we lose as consumers under a subscription service; digital purchases on a closed platform like consoles are already volatile enough. Delistings and shutdowns go on like clockwork, and the sim racing genre is a little extra vulnerable thanks to licensing.

 

[Auditore]

How about a new Elder Scrolls then? That would be a big console release game too.

I don't know what they are waiting for,that game must be in development right now

 

[mickoafna]

I don't believe PS5 will be console hardware at all. It should become fiber / cloud service , where all you need to buy is a controller, connected to 5GHz AC3 wifi, and a subscription plan to play the entire Sony library of games, for $299 a year.

That would be interesting but $299 CAD would be 299 EUR in my country and that would be $450 CAD or $350 US. And for me, playing just one game on a PS console, that would be too expensive.

 

[deththrasher]

When Tokyo won the right to host the Olympics in 2020 they agreed with all the electronic manufacturers (including Sony) that the whole thing would be shown in full 8K.

Do you really think Sony won't take full advantage of that with the PS5? Do they strike you as a company that looks backwards or treads water or are they a company that always steps forward?

It is irrelevant what developers do with it. Most PS3 games weren't 1080P, most PS4 games are not 4K and I'm sure most games won't be 8K on PS5.

Pretty much no one will have 8k TVs in 2020.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Pretty much no one will have 8k TVs in 2020.

With the ever reducing price of 4K today means there will be 8K readily available then.

 

[Corsa]

Pretty soon ya'll console gamers will see that it's about time to come to the dark side. [evil laugh commences]

Already did.
Not many things in life I can say I'm never doing again, but can say for sure I'm never going back to console.

 

[user3392345]

This high resolution 4k stuff is overrated, at a range of 1,5m you dont even see 2k or 4k difference
Much more important is framerate! 60fps should be standard on the next generation. No more this painful 30fps crap PLEASE

PS1 lifespan was 5 years 2 months
PS2 lifespan was 6 years 4 months
PS3 lifespan was 6 years 8 months

PS4 is alive now 4 years 9 months
PS5 release 2020??

 

[PzR Slim]

This high resolution 4k stuff is overrated, at a range of 1,5m you dont even see 2k or 4k difference

That is just wrong. I sit 1.5m from my 55" 4k tv and the difference watching a UHD broadcast is very noticeable compared to the same broadcast in HD.

 

[user3392345]

That is just wrong. I sit 1.5m from my 55" 4k tv and the difference watching a UHD broadcast is very noticeable compared to the same broadcast in HD.

You sit 1.5m in front of your 55" screen and watch tv? LOL

But yes, the bigger the screen the more it is noticeable. What is the range on your screen where you cant tell if 2k or 4k?

 

[PzR Slim]

You sit 1.5m in front of your 55" screen and watch tv? LOL

But yes, the bigger the screen the more it is noticeable. What is the range on your screen where you cant tell if 2k or 4k?

I could be 5m away from it and I would still notice the improvements. For me the most noticeable difference is the richness of the image you get.

 

[user3392345]

Awesome Here it is 1,5m when it become unclear if 2 or 4, on 50".
Tested only with games.

 

[Robin]

PS1 lifespan was 5 years 2 months
PS2 lifespan was 6 years 4 months
PS3 lifespan was 6 years 8 months

PS4 is alive now 4 years 9 months
PS5 release 2020??

If it is 2020 (or rather Christmas 2019) then it's likely it will be announced at the earliest at TGS in September and the latest at E3 next year. They can't just release it without any kind of year long lead in like they usually do to hype up the console and show it off.

I hope Sony give it full hardware based PS2 and PS3 BC (the chipset will be like £10 now) as well as a UHD Drive because MS really has taken the initiative to add features to the XB One that people actually really want.