PS5 won’t kill off PS4 anytime soon — here's why

PS5 won't kill off PS4 someday shortly — here'due south why

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Sony would very much like y'all to buy a PS5 console, assuming you tin actually go your hands on 1. Simply just because there'due south a new console on the way doesn't hateful it'due south going to forget the PS4 exists.

Sony has announced that the PS4 will be living on until at least 2022, pregnant you accept enough of fourth dimension to pick upward a PS5 before you'll stop existence able to get the latest games.

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This news was confirmed by Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan during an interview with GamesIndustry.biz. He noted that the PS4 is still quite an important system for gamers, and over the next couple of years that volition exist the system the majority of people volition be playing on.

"Plain, our eyes and our horizons accept lifted with regards to what'southward possible with that PS4 community, based on what we've observed over the last vi months. That tin can be quite powerful, because in 2021, 2022... that PS4 community that we've spoken near, they will be the vast majority of people on PlayStations during that time. It is crucial that we keep them engaged and happy," said Ryan.

"And the terminal vi months have demonstrated that we could do that to an extent that nosotros didn't think possible when we were setting our minds pre-COVID."

The obvious piece to accept away from this is that the PS4 will live on until 2022 at the very earliest, and probably subsequently. That'southward a good thing for a number of reasons, the most of import being that at $499 the PS5 is an expensive slice of kit and not everyone will be able to pick i up until the toll drops. Likewise they've proven quite hard to come by, and Sony has already admitted that delays may continue postal service-launch.

The question now is how Sony is going to handle the transitional menses between both consoles. Normally there's a grace flow where you can get games on both platforms, though how long varies from panel launch to console launch. It could be a while this time, equally Ryan said, specially since Sony's biggest rival Microsoft has doubled making its games available on both Xbox Series Ten and the ageing Xbox One.

Only the near of import matter to call up here is that you don't need to feel pressured to upgrade if yous're not quite there yet. The PS4 conspicuously still has enough of life left in it, so if you're happy with your console as information technology is then stick with it. If you lot do experience like an upgrade, though, in that location'southward ever the PS4 Pro.

And don't forget, the PS5 won't play every single PS4 game, so even if you do have a shiny new PS5 there'south a proficient reason to keep your console around.

Tom is the Tom's Guide's Automotive Editor, which ways he tin can commonly be constitute knee deep in stats the latest and best electric cars, or checking out some sort of driving gadget. It'south long way from his days as editor of Gizmodo UK, when pretty much everything was on the table. He'southward ordinarily found trying to clasp another behemothic Lego set onto the shelf, draining very big cups of java, or complaining that Ikea won't let him purchase the stuff he really needs online.