PlayStation 5. Get used to this name shortly.

There’s a possibility that Sony would launch the next, non-mid-generation PlayStation as early as the second half of 2018. This is predicted by Macquarie Research analyst, Damian Thong in his latest financial prediction. He says that Sony’s profits will increase by 13% in 2018, and by the end of the financial year in March 2019, the Japanese company would see a record profit of 565.6 Japanese Yen. Sony can pull it off with three things: image sensors, gaming and network services, and fewer write-offs (Sony wrote down $1 billion off Sony Pictures in January due to the arm’s sub-par performance). The second one would be the most important for Sony, as it contains the PlayStation brand as well.

Thong’s prediction says that the PlayStation 5 would have over 10 TFLOPS of performance. The PlayStation 4 Pro is at 4.2, and the Xbox One Project Scorpio would be at 6 according to Microsoft, which means the new PS console would be providing a significant improvement.

If you think about it, the timing could make sense: Sony Bend’s Days Gone, Naughty Dog’s The Last Of Us Part 2, as well as Sony Santa Monica’s new God of War might be arriving in 2018, and they could be launch titles for the new PlayStation. (If that’s true, the PlayStation 4 Pro would be in a different light: it came out three years after the classic PS4 but would be out on the market for only two before the PS5 arrived…)