The PS4 released on November 15, 2013. The PS4 Pro released November 10, 2016. If a new rumor is to be believed, the PS5 could release in November of 2019. This rumor comes from a gaming journalist named Marcus Sellars, who has a long and successful track record of accurately predicting major gaming news. According to him, PS5 development kits were sent out earlier this year to third party developers. If this is true, the console announcement is sure to follow. Join us as we dive into the source of this rumor, and look at how dev kits have informed the release of new consoles in the past. A New Rumor Suggests Developers Already Have PS5 Dev Kits Marcus Sellars is a game journalist who has accurately predicted a number of major game announcements in the past on his Twitter account. He leaked Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 before it was announced and even outed several details about the latest Nintendo Direct and the announcement of a Diablo III Switch port. Needless to say, his predictions are often founded in reliable sources. That’s why a lot of heads turned when Marcus Tweeted the following: PS5 dev kits went out early this year to third party developers. — Marcus Sellars (@Marcus_Sellars) March 6, 2018 If this is true, then the PS5 could be coming within the next year. Dev kits, also known as development kits, are prototypes of new consoles that are sent to developers so they can begin creating titles for the new hardware. These are usually sent in several versions as the hardware is finalized, but they signify the coming of a new console. We should also take note that Marcus specified “third-party developers” in his tweet. Studios that are owned by Sony would have first access to any new dev kits, but if Sony is now sending the prototypes to third-party developers, it could mean that they are finalizing the specs of the PS5. All of this begs the question: why 2019? Isn’t that a little early for a new console? Well, let’s take a look at how Dev kits were distributed in the past. History Repeating: The Timeline Between PS4 Dev Kits and The Console’s Release Let’s go back in time to 2012. During this time, the PS3 and the Xbox 360 were in households everywhere. It was a great generation, but it was coming to a close. The PS4 and Xbox One announcements were coming very soon. In November of this year, VG247 posted an article about the PlayStation 4’s dev kits. This article confirmed information from multiple sources that Sony was sending out the final versions of a PS4 development kit by summer of 2013. Back then, the console was code-named Orbis and it was sent to developers in the housing of a standard PC, so it didn’t even look like a game console. Developers were invited to a “disclosure meeting” during this time, at which point they were shown the final hardware and … Read More