Switch 2 is priced at $450. The same cannot be applied to the PS6.
That would be my preference. They're both going into their next console from a position of strength.
The PS6 will not be much more expensive.
Come on, it's not a "lmao, no", it's more of a "Sony will, perhaps, change its strategy and not talk so early about its next generation plans compared to the last time". Did you guys even read the example I put in the OP.
www.gamesindustry.biz
Sony committed to PS3 "for 10 years and beyond"
Tretton plays down console sales figures
I did, and I agree that that is what Sony did with the PS5's reveal, but for various reasons, I don't think that they are ready to commit to that this time around for various reasons, which include, among other things:
That statement does not imply that the successor is going to release in 5 years as Sony has always committed to selling its consoles for, at least, 10 years. PS4, for example, was only discontinued in March of last year.
Eh, you have Team Asobi, Polyphony Digital, Santa Monica Studio, Insomniac Games (they have Venom internally targeting 2027 and Spider-Man 3 internally targeting 2028), and then Guerrilla Games could have something ready by 2029, as well as Sucker Punch. This is also not taking into account any external collaborations Sony could have, like Marvel Tōkon.
I don't think there's any other option. We're stuck with the current administration until 2029, and there's no guarantee that the democrats will even get rid of Trump's tariffs.
Discontinuation does not mean actively manufactured and sold. We know from Sony's own shipment numbers that PS4 hasn't even sold any notable few hundred thousand units in the almost three years since early 2022 when the 117 million lifetime total was announced for it. This means that they were obviously not being actively manufactured beyond that date in any meaningful quantities, because among other things, we know Sony prioritized maximizing production volumes for PS5 at the cost of continued PS4 sales. This was with one total hardware profile for them to manufacture, and with first party PS4 games scheduled through to the end of at the very least that year. They are absolutely not going to do that with two hardware profiles for them to be launching.
I can definitely agree with Asobi, Polyphony, and Santa Monica; but as I mentioned, I don't really see the other studios being ready to launch anything meaningful in the first couple of years. The collaborations are a good point, but they are also not anything that has moved significant hardware or software volumes for them so far, so I am not really counting them as meaningfully having gotten your ducks in a row from a pure financial perspective.
The issue is not the existence of the tariffs themselves, they are what they are, if we are stuck with them, we are stuck with them. The issue is the unpredictability, everything from the countries being tariffed, the industries, the rates, the very existence of many tariffs, changes all the time. No company wants to launch two new expensive bits of mass market hardware in this climate. Valve or Asus or these other brands selling a few hundred thousand a year? Sure, they can take that on. Sony is operating at a scale of tens of millions. The sheer losses they would take because of any unpredictable and unanticipated changes would be astronomical. It makes no sense.
Discontinuation definitely means actively sold, though. The amount of consoles being manufactured is not the primary factor as it's, generally, dictated by its own demand. Or at least it was, production on PS4 was extremely reduced due to major issues on global chip manufacturing at the time, something that was clearly visible by the first two quarters of FY2020 before the PS5 was released.
I don't really agree, Guerrilla has been gearing up for multi-project production for a while, and Sucker Punch shouldn't generally take a lot with the next Ghost title when not doing DLC or finding itself right within a pandemic.
They'll either upgrade their specs and launch in like 2030, or they'll talk about what makes their device unique before Steam Machine is out, yes.Sony?
They did that in 2019. The PS6 is launching in fall 2027 so if Sony does that again it'll be around April 2026.November 15, 2013: PS4 is released
April 16, 2019: SCE outlines its next generation plans for the first time
Sony had Mark Cerny giving an interview with WIRED regarding their plans for the successor of PlayStation 4, information at the time including initial specs, the support of physical media, backwards compatibility with both PS4 and PSVR games, and the launch year being 2020.
Exclusive: What to Expect From Sony's Next-Gen PlayStation
Don't expect it anytime in 2019, but the next PlayStation console is well on its way—and it's packing ray-tracing support and a loadtime-killing solid-state hard drive.www.wired.com
If history is any guide, it will eventually be dubbed the PlayStation 5. For now, Cerny responds to that question—and many others—with an enigmatic smile. The "next-gen console," as he refers to it repeatedly, won't be landing in stores anytime in 2019. A number of studios have been working with it, though, and Sony recently accelerated its deployment of devkits so that game creators will have the time they need to adjust to its capabilities.
- 8 core AMD 7nm Zen 2 based on third generation Ryzen.
- Ray-tracing support with custom AMD Navi GPU.
- Custom AMD unit for 3D Audio, also aided by ray-tracing, a big upgrade.
- Extremely fast high-end custom SSD storage faster than any solution currently available for PC: Spider-Man load times on PS4 Pro: 15 seconds → 0.8 seconds on next-gen PlayStation.
- Technically supports 8K but Cerny demoed Spider-Man load speed improvements on a 4K screen.
- New Virtual Reality platform strongly hinted at but also supports current PSVR (meaning millions of VR users 'day one').
- Death Stranding might be a cross-gen title (speculation in article based on Cerny reply).
- Physical Media.
- Backwards Compatible with at least PS4.
- Four years in development so far.
- 2020.
PlayStation's next-generation console ticks all those boxes, starting with an AMD chip at the heart of the device. (Warning: some alphabet soup follows.) The CPU is based on the third generation of AMD's Ryzen line and contains eight cores of the company's new 7nm Zen 2 microarchitecture. The GPU, a custom variant of Radeon's Navi family, will support ray tracing, a technique that models the travel of light to simulate complex interactions in 3D environments.
Considering that this was shared 1.5 years before the PS5 launched, in around 6 months we will be in a similar situation before the PS6 is released. Worth mentioning that Sony isn't exactly consistent with these things and it could go different ways, like within a year from launch as it was the case with the PS Vita and PS4.
PS5 Pro will simply get discontinued.
It will be much faster from ps5pr0 but even if we take into consideration ps5pr0 launch(nov 2024) and substantial inflation from that time to holidays 2027 or holidays 2028 its not feasible, lets not forget nasty increase in ram/vram prices due huge ai demand that will be happening for a while at least and much newer(and much more expensive obviously, new tech isnt cheap, especially on very high demand 3nm manufacturing process all big tech players are fighting for) both gpu and cpu tech in ps6.
Yups, even if sony uses zen5(and zen6 is around the corner, gonna debut in 2026 sometime) we will get huge cpu perf increase in ps6, at least 2x, if not 3x.
it takes them like 5 seconds to replace the 5 with a 6
Look at the thread date.
Oops. I thought it was made today! Lol
