PlayStation 5 is a lot closer than you might think, but it may only be a “half step”

That another PlayStation will come out isn’t up for debate. When it’s coming and what Sony’s plans, however, are still mysteries. Industry analyst Michael Pachter thinks he has a good idea of how things will go down though, and laid out what he expects to see happen in a recent interview with GamingBolt.

“The PlayStation 4 Pro is a better [from a technical perspective] than the PS4, so I think that’s a half step toward the PlayStation 5,” Pachter said. “I think the PS5 will be another half step. So he is being honest when he said he is not doing a half step, but the PlayStation 5… how much faster can it be? I’ll surely support 4K. Will it support 240 frames per second? Great. Will it play games that were made for the PlayStation 4 Pro? That’s the question. I think it will. So I think they will build a console that will be backwards compatible with the PS4 Pro. So I think it will be perceived by the consumers to be a half step and I think Shawn is telling the truth when he says it’ll be a full-fledged console.”

Pachter also said that he thinks that the PlayStation 5 is coming in 2019 or 2020, “but probably 2019.” The market will be primed for a 4K device at that point, Pachter says, when 4K reaches 50 percent market penetration.

“I think Sony has probably got the next console cycle nailed down already. I think, they already know what they got to do,” Pachter said.

How about some perspective?

Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2017/07/13/playstation-5-launch-analysis/