Sony Offers An Update On PS5 Pre-Orders - Forbes

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Things got nutty earlier in the week. A rumor that Sony was going to open up PS5 pre-orders by announcing the price and release date gained some traction, and there was a moment when we really thought it was going to happen: sooner or later, Sony does have to tell us how much this thing costs! But this one turned out to be a bust, and Geoff Keighley asked PlayStation global head of marketing Ed Lempel about it in an interview about the Dualsense controller today.

“No, definitely not now. We don’t know what happened there, we have nothing to do with it,” he said about the rumor.

“I think it’s safe to say: we will let you know when pre-order will happen. It’s not going to happen within minutes notice. We’re going to at some point let you know when you can pre-order a PlayStation 5, so please don’t feel like you have to run out and go line up anywhere”.

So that’s a bit of a relief: when pre-orders open up, it’s not going to be a surprise. Sony, naturally, wants as much hype as possible, and it’s also easy to imagine a situation where confusion and chaos reign in the wake of a surprise announcement. As fun as it was to imagine that it was actually going to happen earlier in the week, we can expect some more choreography on this front.

The next major punctuation mark in this burgeoning console war is Microsoft’s big games showcase next Thursday, though Microsoft would very much prefer to stop referring to this whole thing as a console war. That’s when we’re going to see more about Halo: Infinite as well as whatever else Microsoft has cooking up in the way of first-party games for the next few years: there’s word of Perfect Dark reboot, and that would be amazing.

I’m still guessing that we hear about price and release date for both PS5 and Xbox Series X in August, with pre-orders opening up slightly after each announcement. A surprise announce might have had the advantage of letting Sony run the show without Microsoft getting the chance to respond, but it also would have caused all sorts of other problems. Stay tuned for more.

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July 17, 2020 at 11:59PM
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Sony Offers An Update On PS5 Pre-Orders - Forbes

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