It will be clear that Sony will show the world the PlayStation 5 one day. Would be a bit strange if it suddenly appeared in the store from scratch. The big question, however, is where and when. We really don’t know anything about a date. That is food for speculaas. But we could possibly say more about the place. Thanks to the Corona virus.
PlayStation is now also withdrawing from GDC in March
Sony has withdrawn from two physical events in recent days. It is PAX East, where PlayStation had planned a large booth plus playable demos of The Last of Us II and Final Fantasy VII Remake. Yesterday the deregistration for the GDC in San Fransisco. That event will take place from 16 to 20 March. PAX East is already coming week. Sony is not the only party that has canceled the GDC. Facebook also canceled their arrival yesterday.
“Sony does not take any risks with Corona virus and that virus is far from being restrained”
JJ believes it is clear that Sony does not want to take any risks with the virus. Until the end of March in any case. And those are the months in which we expected the announcement. ”PlayStation has indicated that they cannot give a hard date with regard to the reveal, but that they follow the flow of the past releases. And they always did the reveal within the months of February and March. ” JJ therefore thinks that the chance has become a lot bigger that the announcement comes via a large State of Play. “Sony does not take any risks with the Corona virus. And that virus is by no means controlled. A big event for which you fly in media from all over the world does not seem very logical to me. Put that in addition to the fact that they gradually have to show something because you want to build a hype for a new console, and then you come to this conclusion. Hopefully we will hear more soon. Because the conspiracy theories are not online. And no matter how absurd some statements may be (Sony is panicking, the PS5 is not good, they have no games, etc.), it is all bad pr … “
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