Update: Sony has announced that it'll be hosting a PlayStation 5 'showcase' this Wednesday. It's now fair to assume that the untitled PAX event will tie into whatever this showcase is (Sony says it'll be presenting PS5 games, but we wouldn't be at all surprised to get a price and release date as well). The announcement also explains why the event has remained without a name up until this point.
Original Story: Sony has a currently unnamed event planned for the 18th September during PAX Online. It's one of the only upcoming PAX events that doesn't have a title — it's simply called 'Sony Holder' at the time of writing. And so the speculation begins.
It could well be that Sony has something big planned for whatever this PAX showing is — or perhaps it plans on using this event to expand upon upcoming PS5 announcements. Again, the fact that this slot doesn't have a name suggests that it's all very secretive.
Of course, following the Xbox Series X and Series S price and release date reveals earlier this week, many are demanding that Sony breaks its silence. The bottom line is that the Japanese giant has no choice but to give us more information on the PS5 soon — the next-gen console is supposed to launch before the year is out, remember.
Could this PAX showing be the event that we've been waiting for? Or perhaps it at least has something to do with upcoming PS5 news? As always, we'll have to wait and see.
[source paxegx.com]
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They’ll probably use the event to show you the bottom right hand corner of the back of the PS5 retail packaging and that’s it........
Tingling with antici…
They'll confirm the price of that remote control and that'll be it.
It’s so going to be some fortnight partnership announcement or something and nothing to do with ps5
@Arugula I’d be more excited by that than the ps5 to be fair
@Robinsad Brilliant, can’t believe the PS5 is releasing in a fortnight.
"PAX the way I like it" oh I'm done! Killed it haha
Fingers crossed for a PS5 release date announcement. Hey, a guy can dream!
Here we go, Friday 18th September...... Are you ready????
PsVR 2 announced, Parrapper The Rapper remake announced AND............ Thanks for tuning in, Good night.
I am seriously not getting excited and hyped up to be let down AGAIN
Mmmm.... Maybe it's an early reveal of the ps6? 👀👀👀
In the wake of the Xbox price announcements I would be disappointed if Sony waited another week to announce the price and dates. I don't personally care what the price or the date is; but I want to put in a (legitimate) pre-order and just be able to sit back and wait.
If it's PS5 related I'd not be too surprised, but I'm not exactly holding my breath. I would think maybe the teardown? Ah who knows what Sony are up to these days.
Then it should be officially announced Soony
Fingers crossed for Knack 3!
Think Sony has to release some info in this event, considering the Xbox pre orders go live on 22. So Sony could steal the limelight and say pre orders go live 19th and match the Xbox price or even better just lower. But saying all that I'm not getting my hopes up, since Sony have been getting my hopes up and then crushing them for the last few months lol. Hopefully next Friday we will know a whole lot more.
@BNAG_Gamer Not gonna lie, that would be a pretty cool presentation.
Sony is really chilling like a villain.🤔.haha.sony is like we are not worry about x box.word up son
It is funny how game sites are saying that Sony needs to speak up. honestly the price force push is real funny. Some say that Sony is going to be hurt by the MS announcement of the pricing and the S lol. The S under powered by both Sony's console. Its honestly sad and I will continue to say that it was a waste for MS to even drop that second console as a whole its just a another upgrade of the one X.
At this point I'm expecting a 30 minute Bug Snax Showcase! I kind of detest that game ATM but also hoping that what they've shown so far is purposely misleading, and it turns out to be a really f**king dark, oddball social commentary on the human condition. Like, you are playing this cutesy game for the first twenty minutes and then sh*t goes down and it turns out to be f**king genius.
Because if it really is a case of the Devs just being try-hard kooky with nothing to say, and what you've seen so far is what you get for an hours-long game, then Gee Zus!
But, yeah, probably just a console teardown...
@thedevilsjester - agree 100%. the exact release day and price mean nothing to me - i'm getting a ps5. i just want a solid preorder so i'm not checking for updates all the time.
@SirAngry - MS opens preorders on the 22nd - do you really think sony would allow that without their preorders going live?......i don't see ANY way sony would allow that. next week sony will be giving price, release and preorder dates.
I'd guess there's a PS5 event on September 17th like the June one meanwhile this event on September 18th is the PS5 teardown.
If it isn't the full reveal, with console features, price and release date them I'm going to go with Xbox on day one. I'll get a PS5 down the line.
@Daleaf - if it were possible, i'd also make the release date nov3 - a full week ahead of MS.....plus it means i get a ps5 sooner !
Hoping we get the big reveal next Thursday and then the PAX event is just an expansion of previously announced stuff.
But really, Pax?
SOONY.
We honestly should have that news in the next weekish though, right? They won't want to give Microsoft much of a headstart when it comes to pre-orders.
The best thing they can do at this point is to tell us they will reveal the price then beep it out and add a big red "censored" sign on the price. I would stop being mad at them and appreciate the humour and courage it would take.
I just want to preorder the dame thing so i get one on launch day!
@eddie429 haha yea that would be great. But honestly just price and pre order and release date and I will be happy, would think that the console will be in and around same time, but if Sony are smart then they will read your and my comments and slam dunk lol.
@eddie429 honestly? I was told week of TGS was Sony's plan. Doing something at PAX? Like a big reveal? I don't know, doesn't "seem" like that's how Sony would handle a major announcement about the PS5. Just saying.
If Sony keeps underestimating Microsoft they will be in for a real shock. Tech and regular news sites have been gushing over Microsoft since their reveal along with all video game Youtubers.
Sony needs to stop playing around 😑
@Juanalf why? Honestly, why? They were toast given Microsoft way too much free air time Sony were done, blah, blah, blah... Then June event comes around and bam. They can easily do the same. Sorry, but the moment Sony announces anything, and I mean anything the news switches to them. I would like to know more personally, but fundamentally I think Sony will ultimately handle it well, their marketing team is one of the very best out there.
1 week til we eat boys!
Let's go man im ready ps5 and series x day one baby time to retire the one x and pro
It's going to be an update on the ps5 version of GTA 5
@PhantomMenace84 I see it on the Pax schedule right now, scroll down to September 18 and it’s right there in the time-slot of 10:45pm-11:45pm. It’s the last event for the 18’th and 1 hour long, could be meaty!
I'd be surprised if Sony announced at PAX personally. TGS the following week makes sense, but i dont think Sony are giving a keynote this year (unlike microsoft bizarrely).
I think Sony might do something at the start of the week, but who knows 🤷♂️ what i do expect is that marketing and execs at Sony will be pulling a lot of overtime this weekend
Im gonna tell you what the hold up is. Sony wanted to sell that thing for 600. Thats why they waited till MS made their move. Now their having to rethink their strategy. Because the price can't be any higher than 499 or they will lose this gen, but they also wanna be competitive with that Xbox Series S, and are trying to figure out how much of a loss their willing to take on these consoles.
What a pessimistic bunch we've become!
We used to believe that every announcement will be the one we've been waiting for but now the biggest sign that this might be the one and no one believes it is.
Personally, I can't wait to get my hands on Knack 3!
@Rhaoulos Just cut the stream mid sentence 😂 "and the price, for all this next gen goodness is.." BEEEEEP
Soooo.....Sony had us sign up for pre-preorders. We're not pre-preordering anything so far. We can all order our XBox in 11 days.... I mean is Sony waiting for Switch Pro at this point? Do they plan on just opening preorders whenever MS does? But doesn't that mean they need to open the pre-preorders before then? Or are those signups not for pre-preorders even though it says it's for pre-preorders? Maybe they're just cool waiting for XBox to sell out first to give them a head start? I'm confused.
@SirAngry - i'm with you on TGS - i was sure that would be the week. i just can't imagine the wisdom in sony letting MS preorders go live without anything happening next week.
we'll see!
@Ken_Kaniff Actually I think you are correct. Before they were talking about how they are prioritizing value as a whole over low price. If they release the PS5 at $600 at minimum they will easily lose UK and US.
@Daleaf agreed. i'm keeping my fingers crossed - i want my preorder!
It will probably be to announce what batteries to put in the remote control.
$498/£448 price, November 9th release date 😂
@Ken_Kaniff I've seen around that it costs $450 to manufacture each machine so they could go at that i suppose? Additional things like Plus and Now could help to make it sell at cost, I doubt they'll want to do that buts it's an option for them.
@Kopite I'd like to point out at this juncture in the discussion that when the PS4 launched the parts cost $432's... it launched at $399.99. When the PS4 Pro launched it cost $450's to manufacture... it launched at $399.99. The rumoured cost of the PS5's are apparently $428's (which I assume is for the Digital edition) and $450's (which I assume is for the standard edition), so I would love someone to explain to me in detail why Sony can't hit a $499.99 price point like the XSX. To be honest going on past behaviour and Sony's willingness to eat a loss per unit at launch, why they couldn't hit $399.99 for the standard edition, and $349.99 for the digital edition. I'm genuinely waiting for someone to convince me why the company with a gaming division that has made billions up on billions this generation isn't the one with the war chest, but the company that lost billions and billions can. The XSX parts cost is rumoured to be $525's, so I'm just baffled as to why with cheaper manufacturing costs, which will have come down further since Sony's decision to double production, why they couldn't at the very least match the XSX price with the PS5 SE.
psst... It's not a mystery.
sony's issue on prices is not necessarily how much more or less than the $499 of the XsX the PS5 can be.. imo, its gaming division is in a much better financial position than the xbox division (yes, i know the MS corporation is minted to the hilt, but generally most conglomerates don't funnel vast sums of money from one division to help another with losses), so it might be a matter of how much loss sony are willing to absorb per unit to meet or better the XsX price. sony has another problem on what to do with PS4. undoubtedly PS4 still featured heavily in their plans for the holiday season, and possibly they still expected it to sell well.. however, it's current RRP is $299/£249 and the pro $399/£349, and the existence of the XsS is a larger spanner for PS4 imo, and one they might not be able to resolve overnight.. do they ditch PS4 (even though there might be a lot of manufactured units shipped/ready to ship) and make the PS4pro the defacto base unit, and then somehow find a way to lower the price to $249/£199.. or do they aggressively target the PS4 at $199/£149 budget, and leave the pro.. it's plausible that if somebody was willing to stump up £349 for the premium PS4, they might as well get a PS5 for £50-£100 more (if that's what it ends up retailing at). balancing where/how to align the PS4/PS4pro/PS5 DE/PS5 is not going to happen a day after MS announces prices, no matter how much people insist sony has to announce a price now.
@SirAngry people are expecting higher because of the tech inside I guess? I was always thinking around the $450/£400 Mark even before we saw the Xbox prices purely because I dont think Sony would make the mistakes of the PS3 again. Having the "For The Players" slogan then pricing a load of people out of the machines would be crazy. I still think we could see a Saturn/PS1 moment where they come out and say its massively under the rivals price.
@leucocyte indeed the XSS, probably damages the PS4 more, but the PS4 slim is apparently like $40's to make and the PS4 Pro is apparently $178's to make. Me? If I'm Sony I kill the PS4 Pro, and keep selling the PS4 Slim for $99's.
I also think Sony need to do something with PS Now and PS+. But that's probably a problem for another day.
They’re going to announce that there is a PS5 but won’t give any pricing info for another 2 months.
Not sure if anyone else has noticed but Insomniac Games has been posting a different picture on Instagram every day for the last two weeks... They’ve been alternating between Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (with a reference to the 9 year anniversary of Resistance 3 this past Sunday). I think we may finally be getting some much sought after info next week if I was to guess. Maybe a surprise return to Resistance on PS5 as well as a deep dive for Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales? Probably being more than a little hopeful with Resistance but I could see Spidey being a huge talking point on a PS5 price/release date reveal
@playstation1995 No. No, you are not a rapper. Word.
@pimpjuice tell that to Nintendo fans, we have the patience of a gnat.
Come ooooon! Praying for a really competitive reveal of Friday November 6th launch date, £399 standard console and £349 digital edition, with a 0% APR finance option including PSPlus and PSNow.
@dallamoo. No no no you dont know me.word wtf you talking about dog.🤔.im the best.remember dont do drugs.word up son
Full details and you can pre-order monday the 21st.
This is a pretty low effort “article”.
What time is the event? I don’t see it on the schedule. No link to the schedule?
I'm trying my best not to get my hopes up but hype levels are still rising.
I'm actually very suprised that we still don't have the usual "don't expect any nextgen PS5 related news from this mysterious event" communicate from Sony yet...
@Skuggs23 Microsoft does not care if anyone buys series x they focused more on game pass so they dropped series s digital only on same power as OneS does not even do 4k for once ots xbox has Fake 4k 1440p 60fps
@BNAG_Gamer z That would be awesome! They're really missing a trick not using VR to distinguish themselves and promote the value of the system, even focusing on the existing headset (which will just take advantage of the hardware in any case - LODs, resolution, FPS, loading times etc.). Enough about haptics. We all know lol.
@Prime_Objective Very good point thanks, I'll wait to see if that rears it's head as the event becomes properly announced 👍🏽
@eddie429 They're gonna go in for the kill. It'll be fascinating and entertaining to watch! Get the popcorn out 🍿 Like something off the wildlife channel 😂
I kind of hoped it's gonna be sooner than that.
Build hype. Add a little more hype. Sprinkle with a dose of hype; then BAM £$€799 digital, BAM BAM £€$949 disc.
Wailing intensifies.
Did anyone hear that rumour that Sony has matched the price of the Xbox price ? And they were originally more expensive?
Seems like the event was removed already. O.o
@SirAngry even if it cost $430ish to manufacturer and they sold it at RRP $499 they would still make a loss. There are transport costs, retail profits, warranty costs to add. Though I’ll be surprised if it did only cost $430 to manufacturer considering the parts. The manufacturing cost also won’t take R&D and test units into the equation, this is a huge cost too. Normally when buying anything these costs are distributed over the expected sales numbers.
@dr_lovejoy those are all fair points, and the initial batches I'm certain they'll be shipping by air freight too probably. However, many of those costs would have been the same for previous generations too, notably the PS4 and PS4 Pro, which at launch had similar cost of parts to the PS5 supposedly. Those both launched at $399.99. Obviously that's not indicative of what they'll do now, as times change. On the SSD though I'd have thought there was scope to use whatever they've developed in other products like Enterprise Servers, but on that, and to be honest cost of system I'm way, way out of my comfort zone. Just confused me as to why people think the PS5 is automatically going to cost way more than the XSX, given the cost of parts for that machine were supposedly higher than the PS5 costs. Of course all of this is speculation from articles on news sites that might not be accurate.
@JayShaw - agreed. sony having showcase on Wed. followed by an event at PAX? microsoft poked the bear.
@AfonsoNeto - "already"??? i haven't heard that. AND, then there is this: https://blog.playstation.com/2020/09/12/watch-live-playstation-5-showcase-on-wednesday-september-16/.
@KidBoruto - let the hype happen! https://blog.playstation.com/2020/09/12/watch-live-playstation-5-showcase-on-wednesday-september-16/
@eddie429 - the PAX streaming event seems to be removed, I mean. Great news about this showcase. Price is coming!
@eddie429 I saw! I'll be commenting on PushSquare's article asap today.
@KidBoruto - it's definitely getting exciting! i'm really focused on getting my preorder in: ps5 disc version with the pulse headset. hope to be playing spiderman, demon souls and bugsnax on launch day.
@eddie429 I don't think they've told us about any Launch Day games yet, besides Astro's Playroom which is preloaded onto all PS5s.
I definitely plan to play Spider-Man: Miles Morales day one, even if it doesn't launch with the console/system.
@KidBoruto - no. i'm just being hopeful -those games are the ones i want.
The Sept 18th event actually has nothing to do with the PS5 at all. This event will showcase three new Sony DSLR and Mirrorless Cameras that flaunt their new proprietary E-Mount system for these cameras which is something akin to Micro Four-Thirds or MFT for short. The E-Mount has sort of fizzled since first release and has heavily struggled with MFT as it has largely become the golden standard in digital photography. A newer E-Mount chipset with even more advanced lenses than MFT can provide Sony hopes will reinvigorate their mount system, and so we will see.
But no, nothing about the PS5 on the 18th. This is highly likely to mean that ALL currently unknown information regarding the PS5 will be revealed on the 16th. Guaranteed? No. Highly likely? Yes.
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