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While I call that bullshit too it makes sense for a early 2020 release.
Plus remember Sony is not attending E3 so a big event to reveal PS5 days before the event is GOD level.
You could forget that such a reveal will be this year. Sony is about revealing release dates for Lou 2, Tsushima, Dreams, Death Stranding and whatever other titles they have cooking for this gen...... Inclusive of that is their revised and rumored PS4 hardware...... That will be their focus and nothing else.....
Despite all the fever for next gen, this gen is not close to being done, relative to quality titles and persons buying hardware.... Sony will double down on a reduced price PS4/PRO system this holiday, people will buy them in droves as there's still many people who will buy PS4 at the $179-199 range....... They have nothing to lose.... Sony will rack up PSN subs...... These new PS owners have no worries, they will buy as many games as they can on their new PS4's, because PS5 will be backwards compatible... A genius move to tell them that so early, that's strategy right there.......PS4 owners are guaranteed they won't be left out, they can upgrade to PS5 2 to 3 years after it launches and play all their titles, it's a win for them and for Sony. It locks and secures them in the ecosystem....
This announcement in Wired was not so much about PS5 but about establishing continuity and momentum for PS4...... I think you will see that Sony's focus is still PS4 this year...... They don't need to combat MS with semantics and a PS5 reveal this year, they only need to combat MS with games when it launches.... And of course, games for both PS4 and PS5 is brewing. So everybody in the ecosystem wins.