As pointed out by Nibel on Twitter, a listing on the NEXT jobs website for a role in the SIE Materials Department says that the successful applicant will work "with the design department and the quality assurance department to create the PlayStation 5 scheduled to be released in October 2020."
Previously, Sony has only specified Holiday 2020 as a release window for the new console. October would be slightly earlier than expected for that window, so it may be that this is a mistake, but the listing itself does appear to be offical (although there's no date listed on the page for when the listing was posted).IGN has contacted Sony for comment, but received no reply at time of writing.
Previous reports has said that the outbreak of COVID-19 is unlikely to delay the console's planned release, but could lead to scarcity of materials needed to build the console. Those same reports said Sony could limit production due to a higher launch price point than PS4.
After a long period of silence, we're beginning to learn more about PS5 – we've seen its full specs, how they compare to Xbox Series X, gotten a look at its new controller, the DualSense, and we know a few games coming to the system. For a full round-up, here's everything we know about PS5 so far. Joe Skrebels is IGN's Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter.