The CEO of Ubisoft is betting that in 2019, Sony will launch a new console, the PlayStation 5 with new hardware, something that would force Microsoft to launch a new Xbox One with new hardware.
The consoles (toasters), they have a greater obsolescence than a gamer computer, since their hardware is several generations behind than in PC (the Xbox One X has AMD Bulldozer CPU or Intel Coffee Lake and we are in AMD Ryzen and AMD Polaris GPU and we are in RX Vega or NVIDIA Pascal). Well, according to the developer Ubisoft, it is more than likely that in two years the PlayStation 5 will be launched, a new console that would already be being developed, but of which we do not have the least data at the moment.
To take advantage of the technological pull of Christmas, where a lot of technology is sold, Sony launches the PlayStation 4 Pro, which minimally improves the graphics card and little else and Microsoft's Xbox One X, simply, has a bit of overclocking in the processor and a slight graphic improvement, but they sell it to you as a new console and to go through the box. Microsoft also implements more GDDR5 memory, one of the main problems of the first console, which had a very limited amount of this.
We have seen how the times between console and console have been greatly reduced and it is that they quickly become obsolete due to technical advances in terms of games. Yves Huillemot, the CEO of Ubisoft, has said that Sony will launch a new console in 2019, although on the other hand, the Wall Street Journal points to a PlayStation 5 in mid-2019, something that would force Microsoft to follow the steps and launch something new. Sony's console would possibly implement an APU based on Zen cores like Ryzen and RX Vega graphics (basically a Raven Ridge APU) and possibly use HBM2 memory, although we do not rule out GDDR5X or GDDR6 memory and thus be able to really offer 4K graphs and not a rescaling from 2K.
"As Sony released the PlayStation 4 Pro last year and Microsoft the Xbox One X this year, we think we still have a minimum of two years ahead of us before something new arrives, but that's just our perception," said Ybes Huillemot. In the portal Gamespot.
“We really like the fact that Sony and Microsoft are really adding more power to their machines by using the evolution of technology to empower our developers to create better games for our players. That goes in the right direction instead of trying to make accessories or other things. That will help the industry a lot because the games will look really beautiful on those machines. "
