The appearance of the next-generation game machine "PlayStation 5" will be "entangled until 2020" and experts analyze

byPierre F.

Playstation 4 in 2013Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE)It has been nearly five years since its launch, and will be the successor to PlayStation 4 "PlayStation 5Information is partlyTo be leakedSuch as "PlayStation 5 will appear in the near future?" Has attracted a great deal of attention. Meanwhile, overseas game mediaKotakuIs summarizing the information gained from the gaming industry stakeholders about the outlook for PlayStation 5.

Sources: The PlayStation 5 Is Still A Ways Off
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Since five years have passed since the launch of PlayStation 4, on the Internet, a rumor mixed with expectation that "As soon as 2018 PlayStation 5 will appear also?" Is whispering. Although there is no official announcement from SIE, Jason Schreier, editor of Kotaku, heard stories from several gaming industry officials, "There are still many uncertain factors, and PlayStation 5 appears for a while ahead It is going to be a conclusion that it is likely to become ".

Two of the dozens of people involved in the game industry that Mr. Schreier touched in March, 2018 are said to be people who are familiar with SIE 's game hard plan. "The likelihood that PlayStation 5 will be released in 2019 is very low, but the plan of game hard goes back and forth according to the movement of competitors," Microsoft said, and Microsoft and other companies announce game hard Show that the release date of PlayStation 5 may shift if you show the movements. In the game hard development plan for many years, it is natural that investigating the most suitable release date will influence the plan, even though PlayStation 5 is said, it will not be released with ignoring the move of other companies.

byTed Fu

To many game development companies, Ms. Schreier investigates "Do not know the information about PlayStation 5" by e-mail? An employee of a game studio developing SIE 's first party product also said that he answered "I have not received an explanation about PlayStation 5".SemiAccurateIn the fee-based limited edition article of the article, there was information that "PlayStation 5 may be released as early as the end of 2018", but if PlayStation 5 is released in 2018, it is already in production It should be, Schreier says that people familiar with SIE 's game hard plan laughed away.

Also, also information on SemiAccurate that "PlayStation 5 development kit has already been distributed to SIE's first party and third-party game studios" also never releases PlayStation 5 as soon as possible It is not evidence that it is. "Early development kits are merely PCs with CPU and GPU that can develop game of PlayStation 5", says person familiar with SIE's game hard plan, and listening to development kit and game hard It is a mistake to associate something close to the prototype of.

In addition, the game studio will check the operation with multiple development kits before the release of the new game hard. A person with experience developing in a major game company that Schreier contacted said, "The development kit that I used 18-24 months ago when PlayStation 4 is released was a custom PC" Another person says "I received an official development kit named" Orbis "one year before PlayStation 4 is released in November 2013."

byPhilip Terry Graham

Also, even if there is an initial development kit currently in the game studio, it is considered that the existence itself is strictly concealed, and the group that can access the development kit is considered to be limited. Developers expect PlayStation 5 to be a machine that can play games that do not work on PlayStation 4 and Schreier expects a release around 2020.