Normally these kind of rumours are ignored, especially with such little noise coming from Sony. However, Thong correctly predicted the PS٤ Slim and PS٤ Pro. It’s worth taking his words into consideration.
Another analyst has offered an alternative but not entirely dissimilar opinion. Wedbush Securities’ Michael Pachter believes the PS٥ will launch in ٢٠١٩, and be backward compatible with PS٤ Pro games. Pachter believes Sony is waiting for an increasing saturation of ٤K TVs in consumer households before launching new hardware.
The PlayStation ٥ simply must offer backwards compatibility so that all PS٤ games work on the machine.
My expectation that is that it’s not coming out in ٢٠١٨. That is a ٢٠١٩ ٠r ٢٠٢٠ but probably ٢٠١٩. Sony is probably timing it better because they are going to bring out a ٤K capable device when the ٤K TV market reaches ٥٠% in the USA and ٣٥% in the rest of the world. Again, without any announcements, we can’t fully assess what the PlayStation ٥ will look like from a hardware perspective. We can, however, take a look at the competition, and see how Sony will compete.
Let’s take a look at the Xbox One X. It has an an eight-core ٢.٣ GHz CPU, paired with ١٢GB GDDR٥ memory and a GPU sporting ٤٠ compute units operating at ١١٧٢MHz. In layman’s terms, this is a mid-range ٢٠١٧ gaming PC, but with lots of clever software and hardware tricks to squeeze maximum performance out of it.
- CPT ٢.٣ GHz
- Ram ١٢GB GDDR٥
- GPU sporting ٤٠ compute units
- ٤k TV Supports
Both Xbox One X and PS٤ Pro, as they’re not fully fledged ‘next-gen’ consoles, play all current and future Xbox One and PS٤ titles respectively, but with improvements over being played on base consoles.
The PlayStation ٥ simply must offer backwards compatibility so that all PS٤ games work on the machine.
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