The first news of the PlayStation 5 (PS5)[1] came from Mark Cerny in an interview with Wired in April 2019.[2] Sony intends for the PlayStation 5 to be its next-generation console and to ship worldwide by the end of 2020.[3] In early 2019, Sony's financial report for the quarter ending March 31, 2019, affirmed that new next-generation hardware was in development but would ship no earlier than April 2020.[52]