Why everyone seems to think that it's impossible that the reveal takes place in March ?
Since late January, everybody seems to be like "it's February of April or May" but never March!
March had been canceled this year? Did I missed something?
I have my reasons.
I mean, first, I think Sony thought they would be busy with PAX/GDC stuff in March. That's already two back-to-back events for their events team; preparing for a third at the same time would have been a lot.
Second, end of March is a busy time in general for a lot of companies, with the end of the fiscal year and all.
Third, I think they'd be looking for an opportune time to break into the media cycle. I don't think they'd want to risk having their PS5 event on the same day that, say, Apple has an event. Apple often has an event in late March, and there are only so many weekdays in March.
Fourth, I don't think it makes strategic sense for them to reveal it that soon. I think they'd want to wait until after FFVII, if they possibly could (and they can). They really view that game as a potential sales driver. I also think they want to have one more State of Play focused on the PS4 and its titles; that's a better candidate for March I think.
And fifth, I simply think that if the reveal was in the first half of the month, they would have probably already told everybody, even if it was a stream instead of a live event.
So yeah, I have my reasons. And most of them would be good reasons not to expect a reveal even if there wasn't a global health crisis messing up everyone's plans right now, and one that might actually change the details of the product's release.