This week was meant to be a momentous one for Sony. After months of silence save for a single broadcast in which the sooth voice of hardware wizard Mark Cerny filled the room with tech details that promised future-proofed gaming technology, Sony was ready to lift the veil on their plans for the PlayStation 5. That won’t be happening this week. Sony has postponed its June 4 PlayStation 5 event, in light of the protests that are currently taking part across all of North America so that ”more important voices can be heard.”

It’s time! TO S-S-S-S-S-S-S-SPENDUEL SOME CASH! CUE DRAMATIC MUSIC AND SOMETHING ABOUT THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP! Usually around this time, Sony kicks off a Days of Play event that has some significant discounts offered up, perfect for those gamers who don’t mind shoving their hungry kids out of the way as if they were a line-cutter at Tops on June 01. This year? It’s happening again.

No one does hype, better than E3. Or at least nobody did, back when the show was an unstoppable juggernaut that could convince you to wake up at an ungodly hour just to see Ubisoft’s annual acid trip that was the Just Dance showcase. E3 in its prime, was a lean and mean marketing machine that was the place to …

When it does release, Sony will aim to have make 5 to 6 million units of the PS5 in the fiscal year ending March 2021, down from the PS4 which numbered 7.5 million units during the first two quarters that it was sold from November 2013. With a reported price tag of between $499 to $549, that makes for a luxury item that few can afford.

During a recent PlayStation livestream, Sony finally lifted the lid on their next-gen console. And by that, I mean the hardware was spoken about. No reveal whatsoever of the actual console. NOTHING.

What’s in an Xbox? Lots apparently! If there’s one message that Microsoft seems hellbent on emphasising with their next video game console, it’s power. Pure power in a raw form that’ll pave the way for games to not only look better but perform beyond the norm and load quicker than ever before.

Something else that the PS2 could do which no other console was purposefully capable of at the time? Sit in a horizontal and vertical position. It was a neat touch, and seeing a PS2 propped up next to a TV looked downright futuristic back in the ay. Here’s something equally as impressive, that I had absolutely zero idea was possible: The PlayStation icon on the tray could be rotated.

Over on Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb’s podcast, Director of Xbox program management Jason Ronald detailed the upcoming audio features that’ll be present within the Xbox Series X. While dedicated hardware acceleration for audio was a topic teased for GDC not too long ago (Like that’s going to be happening this year), Ronald revealed that Microsoft is taking sound design a lot more seriously with new technology that he described as audio ray tracing.