#8 - The Road to PlayStation 5

It all starts again for Sony tomorrow.

By the time this goes out, PlayStation 5 will launch in two waves, starting tomorrow in North America, Japan and other countries (in fact, it's already rolling out in Australia and New Zealand) - but not the EU and UK. That’ll come next Thursday. With those two launch waves and the global launch of Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X yesterday as this goes out, it marks the end of another transition between the now outgoing-gen and the just starting next-gen.

By right of being the more successful first-party from what we’ll now refer to here as the last-generation, Sony should be going into this incoming generation with PlayStation 5 the market leader. But despite that, it also faces a more game (no pun intended) Microsoft this time round with Xbox Series S/X who’ve not put a foot wrong in the build-up to this generation unlike last time with Xbox One or even Sony’s past mistakes with PlayStation 3. And even this time round, Sony has slipped up in one or two big ways.

With PlayStation 5 24 hours from release at this point, the second of two episodes of Press Play this week takes a look at how we got to this point in time as we head towards tomorrow's first launch wave and then the second wave next Thursday.