After cutting PS5 sales forecasts for the current fiscal year, for next year Sony necessarily needs to keep attention high on its consoleespecially in view of the launch of GTA VI, one of the most anticipated games of the last decade.
PlayStation 5 PRO a fine 2024?
And to do this, there is only one way according to CNBC analysts, that is launch PlayStation 5 PRO later this year. The CNBC report highlights how Sony has effectively confirmed the stagnation of the console's sales, reiterating how the PS5 is about to begin the second phase of its life cycle, for this reason the company expects a gradual decline in sales. And if PlayStation 4 PRO was launched three years after the debut of the PS4, the time is now ripe for the PS5 PRO, a console that would arrive four years after the launch of the “standard” console.
Kantan Games' Serkan Toto told CNBC that Sony is reportedly preparing for the launch of PlayStation 5 PRO in the second half of 2024, this would allow the Japanese giant to continue to maintain high attention on the platform and increase the installed base in view of the release of GTA 6 in 2025. George Jijiashvili, analyst at Omdia, instead focuses on Sony's need to generate profit and to this, he hypothesizes, with the arrival of PS5 PRO the price of the PS5 could drop. Sony was not immediately available for comment after being contacted by CNBC.
Nintendo Switch 2 announced in June?
Continuing to talk about next-gen consoles, the Brazilian journalist PH Brazil (the first to spread the rumor about the Switch 2 postponement to 2025) specifies how Nintendo has a Direct scheduled for April and an Indie World in March, after the Nintendo Partner Direct on February 21st. Nintendo Switch 2 will instead be revealed during the month of June, according to its sources.