I'm sceptical about this 'PS5' design.
* This information does not come from a photo of a dev kit that's in the wild.
* Most dev kits are a just a big ugly anonymous PC box. Why would Sony go to the effort of designing a unique chassis for the PS5 dev kit? Would it be to excite developers and publishers that their consoles is going to be special?
* Also, the design is drawn in a format that is used for patents, however Sony is not going to be patenting a dev kit design!
* The person who shared the info is a bugs tester and student games developer with no reputation.
* The source is a Netherlands or Brazilian? website translated here:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fnl.letsgodigital.org%2Fspelcomputers-games%2Fsony-playstation-5-console%2F* They first have one image, then update their story with more images claiming "We have just managed to get more product images showing the patented device from different angles." So why didn't they get all the images at once? Why don't they say where they got their images from. The suggestion is this is a leak from a patents office.
* The designer is listed as Yushuhiro Ootori. Push Square believe this is a Technical Director. His name is actually spelt Yasuhiro Ootori. Why TF would Sony get the spelling wrong?
This is the stage in the pre-reveal of a console where we all want to believe! And it may well turn out to be true. But my BS radar is beeping.
Peter Crisp wrote:I wonder if we'll see any leaks of next gen game footage running on devkits or pictures of the machines themselves or is everyone involved handcuffed by really ugly NDA's now and would likely be fired and face some other legal problems?
How would we even be able to tell from a still image? PS4 Pro games have 4k checkerboarding and XBO X often has 4K. The only giveaway would be for graphics experts like Digital Foundry who may be able to detect raytracing that isn't possible on current-gen.