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Xbox Series X / PS5
We’re just over two months away from the launch of Xbox Series X and PS5 … probably. COVID-19 has thrown the entire world into its biggest loop in a century, and as a result, we still don’t know the price or the release date of the next consoles from Microsoft and Sony. However, we can guess, and it’s widely assumed that when these companies talk about “2020 holidays,” they mean sometime in November, which is when these things usually come out. Which leads us to wonder which one will go first.
An interesting analysis from the Video Games Chronicle suggests that no company has publicly committed to a launch date due to the changing nature of global commerce in the COVID-19 era – new crashes, spikes, and outages are hard to predict, and all We have seen how quickly the global landscape can change in two months.
Given that warning, VGC says that retail sources and marketing spending are predicting a PS5 release date of November 13, which is expected to be roughly a week after Xbox Series X on November 6. That gives Microsoft a slight edge, the opposite of what happened. last generation when PS4 launched a week before Xbox One.
This assumes a coordinated global release, which the VGC advises may not be the case either.
It’s only a one-week difference, so I wouldn’t expect this to move the needle much if this ends up being the order. The PS4 didn’t beat the Xbox One because it was released a week earlier, it beat the Xbox One because it was cheaper, with a slight power edge, and far superior pre-launch marketing. The Xbox Series X is not in as dire a situation as the Xbox One, but it is still an uphill battle against the massive momentum that Sony built over the course of this generation, both in terms of installation base and exclusive development. It doesn’t hurt to go first, of course, which is why Microsoft is probably trying to take advantage of whatever advantage it can.
It is remarkable that we are still speculating on this at the moment, of course. At this point I’m just guessing that Microsoft and Sony will tell us the price and release date of their next-gen consoles before they actually release things, because at this point any prediction of when we would get this information has been four wrong. or five times. Soon, someday, soon.
