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It's Game On as Sony Holds Out for a PS5 Christmas
The company’s most-anticipated product isn’t here yet, which is awkward timing in this pandemic.
Anti-lockdown-boredom device: a PS5 controller.
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When Sony Corp. started developing its next games console, it couldn’t have known that the release would coincide with the worst viral pandemic in a century. And if executives had, they would have struggled to understand the implications.
But Covid-19 is here now, and the PlayStation 5 isn’t. Yet.
Sony reiterated a previous timeline Tuesday for releasing the newest version of its popular games machine by the holiday season — which generally means the December Christmas period. That's none too soon, because the current model needs replacing to capitalize on a time of extraordinary demand.