Tony's unveiling of his next-generation game took on a whole new dimension today with the launch of the PlayStation 5. Registration page. No new information, with the company send a note stating that "we're not ready to unveil the next generation of PlayStation."
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The new web page has an email registration field, which provides more details the next day. This move is likely to be a reflection of the broader expectation that Tony will be providing new information about his console sometime this month. Although the February unveiling still holds sway over the rumors, there is a historical introduction to the February announcement.
When the company launched the PlayStation 4 back in 2013, it did it in a special New York event in February. Invitations for the event were sent at the end of January. More details, including hardware preview and pricing, are announced at E3 next May. Tony said it would not be at E3 this year, and would be absent from the company in 2019.
The announcement strategy for the PlayStation 5 is based on the release of released information. Last spring, Mark Cerny gave the company a go interview with Wired in which he set out the wishes of the then unnamed console company, explaining the new CPU and their GPU from AMD, and its use of a solid drive. Cerny also announced that the year 2020 will be out.
This has been a strange strategy to introduce a power company like Sony, traditionally relying on large public events to make announcements, rather than having interviews with the media. But work has been made to stop the PlayStation 5 stamp before Microsoft's E3 launches its new console, the Xbox Series X, which is also due out later this year.
Off the down, Sony Interactive Entertainment manager Jim Ryan has released more details in a blog post, especially in relation to the new console controller, which will include haptic feedback and buttons for his feet. He has also confirmed that the console will be called PlayStation 5. A new logo was revealed last month.
