We’ve known that developers have had PS5 and Xbox Scarlett development kits for a while now, but here we see the PS5 devkit in the wild. What is interesting about the dev kit is that it’s shape is in a V, obviously the V stands for 5, but is there more to it than that? Why not just make a box and put a V on it? If you look closely you can see something in the side vent holes. Could those be fans or wires? It would seem odd that the Xbox One X can be cooled in such a small box, but the PS5 development kit can’t. Could this be a hint that when the PS5 launches late next year it is going to be quite a bit larger than the PS4?
The Playstation 3 was quite a bit larger than the PS4 when it launched. With a new Blu-ray player in there as well as multiple USB and PS2 backward compatibility, the size of it matched its price tag. Is it possible that next generation’s Playstation 5 will be just as big if not bigger than its ancestor the PS3? Only time can tell for sure.
How much time? Well Sony skipped E3 in 2019 and did their own showing in May ahead of Stadia’s reveal a few weeks later in June before E3. They could very well do that again in 2020 if not earlier than May. They might even go the way Microsoft went in 2013 with a demo showing off the features of the now discontinued Kinect along with a new Call of Duty game, then a few weeks later at E3 showed off the games that were supposed to be coming out for the system. (RIP Scalebound)
No matter what they choose to do, we will be watching with anticipation as next gen should be good for gamers all across the board.
Edit: @Alcoholikaust on Twitter is the one who posted the image of the dev kit and Tom Warren, editor for Verge confirmed these are indeed PS5 dev kits.
