PS5 Release Date: 2018 leak hints that PlayStation 5 game is coming to PS4 Pro, Xbox One X

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PS5 Release Date: 2018 leak hints that PlayStation 5 game is coming to PS4 Pro, Xbox One X

THE SONY PlayStation 5 console is coming - eventually - but aside from rumours around Dev Kits this week, it's also possible that one of the first PlayStation 5 games may have been revealed - but it's coming to PS4 Pro and Xbox One X first.

Earlier this week it was rumoured that PS5 dev kits had been sent out to game developers so they could begin working on blockbuster AAA games for the future console.

Insiders are claiming that while the super machine is still at least a year or two away from release, game makers are already hard at work on “next generation” games for it because it takes years to develop these top-tier titles.

The source of these rumours is industry insider Marcus Sellars, who seems to have been bang on the money lately with talk of the recent Nintendo Direct and Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4.

According to him, dev kits were set out earlier this year, but outside of this, there's no hard evidence.

Despite news, leaks and all-around industry chatter around Sony's next PlayStation 5 console continuing to snowball in 2018, to date the only official news has come from Sony's Shawn Layden - Chairman of Worldwide Studios and President of Sony Interactive Entertainment America - after E3 last June.

This took place in an interview with German website Golem, where Layden confirmed a PS5 is "coming"  but will “probably be some time”.

Whilst not as exciting as rumours about dev kits, there was another piece of news this week which could prove more interesting and substantial in the long run.

The news refers to Cyberpunk 2077, the next game from CD Projekt RED, the developer famous for releasing The Witcher series.

More specifically though, CD Projekt Red’s CFO Piotr Nielubowicz and CEO Adam Kicińsk recently spoke at the Pareto Securities Gaming Seminar and spent a good chunk of time talking about the companies next big AAA game.

Why is this important? Because during one slide of their presentation the duo mentioned that Cyberpunk 2077 will be built on “current and next-generation technology.

This would seem to suggest that Cyberpunk 2077 will be a cross-generation game that not only launches on the Xbox One and PS4, but also on the next Xbox and PS5 as well.

A similar strategy was applied by Rockstar for the release of GTA V, which released at the end of the PS3 and Xbox 360 era before releasing a few months later on PS4 and Xbox One.

Of course, it's possible the comments in the presentation could mean nothing. But with Cyberpunk 2077 likely still a year or two away from release, it would certainly make sense when you put all the evidence together with what we know about when the PS5 is rumoured to release.