Sony Wants A Faster Shift From PS4 To PS5 Than In Previous Generations

@Terrorantula: PS2 shipments went from March of 2000 to December 2012. That's 12 years worth of sales time. The console was officially discontinued on January 4, 2013.

So in comparison the PS4 is doing just a bit better. In March 2006 the PS2 was at 103 million units versus PS4 at the same mark a few weeks short of 6 years.

@btotheotothejtothef: Ghost of Tsushima has a pretty strong chance as well.

@Sepewrath: if it sells as fast as the ps4, they Should be happy. From what I see next gen will be a software war and not a hardware one.

@Richardthe3rd: Sticky is a sleazy corporate term used to describe customers that they are able to trick or force to stay on a game or platform, continuing to spend.

Free to play developers use it a lot.

@Tidus1012: its more likely to be £500 whats that in dollars $600?

With the ever growing software requirements like say cyberpunk your gonna need to have the "pc" architecture now to run them.

That costs as the pc guys already know.

With the ps5 maybe comparable to a high mid range pc spec now, you're still paying considerably less than the pc equivalent i think again dependant on what you want in pc.

So $600 isnt too bad is it?

Try the alternative pc route and see how much that will cost.

:)

@Tidus1012: please go take some economics classes please. You are completely and utterly wrong. For a whole host of reasons. Your comment shows that you have no clue how markets and economies work.

@Tidus1012: at launch? Lol IF it was even 500-600 I still wouldn't buy it at launch. $1000 at launch means that evne in 5years+ that console will be around 500$ which would still be not worth it when ps6 comes out

@Thanatos2k: thats exactly right. im expecting the horizon zero dawn sequel

@Jinzo_111887: to be fair, you get free games in exchange, the bulk of which make the subscription worth the price of entry.

@alaannn: lol

@alaannn: Uh...what? Did you actually just say the PS4 didn't have good game support?

@alaannn:

Thank you.

Same.

Instead of going console this whole Gen, I upgraded my PC and also went handheld.

The library just made more sense that way.

PS5 is appealing with backwards compatible in mind ...but they need a stronger unique line-up this time. I also gotta wonder if this very well could be the end of discs soon enough, which makes the case for 1 last library.

@Blk_Mage_Ctype: I mean you got Yakuza well had [Its on PC now] Persona 5 which is sitll by far one of hte best games on ps4 along with yakuza series. and ontop of that Yakuza 7 will be coming out on ps4 ONLY so

@Blk_Mage_Ctype: Dude, the vast majority of that censorship involved covering up little girls.

@kingrat2314: Congratulations to you and the fiancee! On the "engaged" part, not the "sticky" part.

Scratch that, grats on the "sticky" part too!

PHINIX

@LesserAngel: I doubt it will have BC, that has become a thing of the past. The price is likely going to be the same as the PS4 launch or more. The games at launch are likely predominately going to be cross platform/gen games like every other console launch.

@Shinnok789: I doubt BC will be a thing again, the only reason MS did it--was out of desperation to try and move hardware and the brand. Sony doesn't stand to make money off of BC and they are very high on themselves and the brand. Not to mention, you're not going to sell a lot of people on buying a new system to play old games.

@Shinnok789: Most of those patches were purely for higher resolutions. The Pro did boost existing games...until you were forced to use the patches which sucked because I preferred the performance boost. The PS5 shouldn't require these patches if boost mode is already built in. It should just run the base game with more stability. You'd like to see more effects but I doubt most devs will bother with updating older games...unless it's a remaster they want you to buy.

@tiller720: I was thinking the same thing. I'd be happy to trade in my PS2 and PS3 if the PS5 has full backward compatibility with those consoles. The PS5 hardware is more than powerful enough to emulate those systems, and Sony has the know-how to do it. That would be a huge selling point.