The coronavirus it has changed everything. Due to the pandemic, we have seen how E3 2020 was canceled and even how releases like The Last of Us Part II are delayed indefinitely. The situation in the video game industry has been strongly shaken due to this, even more so in a year as critical as this one, with a new generation of consoles to be announced and released. When will the final presentation of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X take place?
He has been an analyst with a long history and reputation, Daniel Ahmad, who has shed some light on it. As explained on Twitter, after the cancellation of E3, "Many of the planned announcements or disclosures have been moved out of that week". Companies are now playing a lot more with the calendar, which implies that we will see announcements "Long before and others much later". In fact, some will even stay on those days when the quintessential video game fair would take place.
With E3 canceled, a lot of the planned reveals / announcements have been moved out of that single week.
Some are now much earlier, others much later. Some still during E3 week ofc.
The first proper next gen console / games showcase is much earlier too.
– Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) April 19, 2020
The juiciest comes just below. Ahmad assures that "The first revelation as such of next-gen games and consoles will be much earlier". Without specifying a date, makes it clear that we will not have to wait for June to see Microsoft revealing everything planned with Xbox Series X or Sony teaching once and for all the mysterious PlayStation 5, which we already know even the DualSense controller. Those of Redmond already made it clear that they would go with everything to E3 2020 and, after the cancellation, they confirmed a digital Xbox event that they would soon give details.
It is possible that we will soon know the date of said event and also, Sony's next step with its PS5 console. The questions are still in the air, the consoles are launched this year and, for the moment, we have to know the most important of both.
When can we get to know PS5 and Xbox Series X in depth?
In the words of the analyst at Niko Partners, the final presentation of the consoles is about to arrive. It may be in the month of May when the unknowns of release dates, prices and initial catalogs. Three crucial points to see which is the path that each company will follow in a rather anomalous generation start-up due to the pandemic.
We will continue to wait, but according to what has been revealed, everything points to no need to wait until June. Now we just need the big ones to move and finally reveal what we want to know about PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, even if the existence of Xbox Lockhart is real.