PS4 in 2018 gave gamers incredible value for money. It seemed like every few months, PS4 owners could look forward to a AAA game hitting store shelves. But with the 9th generation of consoles just around the corner, what can we expect from PlayStation in 2019?

With PlayStation not holding a presser at E3 this year, it certainly looks from the outside that they’re preparing for something big next for Christmas 2019.

First Party Titles

Where PlayStation dominates the market is in first-party games. Just last year God of War, Detroit Become Human and Marvel’s Spider Man all came out exclusively on PS4. There’s still 4 big AAA games to be released, presumably in the next 12 -18 months, but with none of them even having a confirmed release window, who’s to say these wont be cross-generation games?

Naughty Dog’s, The Last of Us Part II is the sequel to the critically acclaimed, Last of Us which released back in 2013 on the PS3. Interestingly, it released on the PS3 just a few months before the PS4 was available to buy. Could we see something similar happen this year with the PS5? Naughty Dog have been working on this game for at least 3 years at this stage, so it’s undoubtedly in the final stages of development.

Another Sony studio, Sucker Punch have been hard at work for over 5 years, creating the game, Ghost of Tsushima. Set in feudal Japan, you play as one of the last Samurai fighting a guerrilla war against the Mongol invaders. Game play was first revealed at E3 2018.

In April 2019, Sony Bend will give fans their first offering in years, with the zombie survival game, Days Gone. You play as Dean St John, a biker who is trying to survive the zombie apocalypse. Think of the zombies in World War Z and you have Days Gone zombies.

And finally, from the mind of Hideo Kojima, we have Death Stranding. Virtually nothing is known about the story or where it takes place. The little we have found out is it will star Norman Reedus and Mads Mikkelsen. It’s a collaboration between Hideo Kojima of Metal Gear Solid fame and acclaimed film director, Guillermo Del Toro.

NEXT GEN ANNOUNCEMENT

Sony’s absence from E3 for the first time in over 20 years has many suspecting that it means a PS5 announcement will happen this year. It’s possible that Sony will hold it’s own event in the Autumn to reveal the PS5. Little else is know about the console although you can confidently hazard a guess at what the specs look like given what’s currently available in the market.

Now for the techy bit. It will likely have an AMD Ryzen CPU, which will allow games to be played in 60 FPS. Native 4K gaming is a must given what the Xbox One X has been able to accomplish with the Forza series and Red Dead Redemption 2.

With the PS4 Pro having a 4.2 Terra flop GPU compared with the Xbox One X’s 6, the PS5 will need to have a hefty upgrade to compete with the next-gen Xbox. 10 Terra flops of computing power should be what Sony is aiming for. A hefty increase in RAM is also necessary. At least double the 8GB that the PS4 had, and a 4K Blu Ray player wouldn’t go a miss either.

And with Xbox likely to release 3 consoles this coming generation, Sony will have its work cut out to maintain its market dominance.