How? Already an article on the PS6? While the PS5 has still not offered its full potential and the PS5 Pro has only been available for a few weeks? As surprising as it may be, yes, because a console generation is not prepared at the last minute. Manufacturers like Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo prepare their new machine directly after the release of their last console.
So, for the PS6, it has been since 2020, already five years, that Sony and the company's engineers have been thinking and starting to work on the "next PlayStation console". And since September 2024, the first information, rumors and statements are slowly starting to come out, allowing us to start writing this file, which will aim to list all the information, statements, announcements and other (reliable) rumors that we will be able to read and discover in the coming weeks and years, until the release of the beast.
Because yes, even if the PS5 has not yet said its last word, it will (already) be 5 years since the Sony console has been on the market. And like all previous consoles, we have already had the right to the Slim models (since 2023), then to the Pro model, like the PS4 since last year. If all goes well, this new PS6 should arrive at the end of 2027. So, yes, there are already things to say.
NB: This file is a common thread. The goal of this kind of file is to be regularly updated over the weeks, months and years, allowing you to get a complete summary of the most reliable information about the PS6. Thus, the file will be incomplete when it is initially published and will aim to be completed until the console is revealed and released.
- Creation of the file: February 17, 2025
PS6: any official statements from Sony?
To date (February 17, 2025), PlayStation has only mentioned the next PlayStation once. It was on the occasion of the brand's 30th anniversary in December 2024, when Hideaki Nishino, PlayStation CEO, confirmed that the console would arrive "at the right time." Sony did not want to rush the release of its new console or delay it to make room for the PS5 Pro.
For PlayStation, launch timing is very important, and as with previous generations, Sony intends to release its PS6 at the best time, both for players and developers.
PS6: the first information from insiders and journalists?
The first time the PS6 was talked about, through rumors and information from insiders, was in September 2024, shortly after the reveal of the PS5 Pro. It was via a Reuters report that we learned that Sony and AMD were in discussions to renew their partnership with the PS6, allowing them to keep the same architecture and make the console backwards compatible.
In January 2025, insider KeplerL2, who distinguished himself in 2024 by being the first to officially share the characteristics of the PS5 Pro, confirmed on the NeoGaf forums that the PS6 was "fully designed and in the pre-silicon validation phase". This step means that the development of the machine is in its final phase and that engineers are carrying out the final tests in order to validate the theoretical performance of a chip to give the green light and launch the physical production of the first prototype of the PS6.
Still according to insider KeplerL2, this phase occurs on average two years before the console's release, suggesting that the PS6 was planned for the 2027 holiday season.
PS6: a backwards compatible console?
According to information from Reuters, in September 2024, the renewed partnership between Sony and AMD will allow future PS6s to be equipped with a backwards compatible AMD chip. Unfortunately, we do not yet know whether this backwards compatibility will only be with PS5 games or whether it will extend to PS4 games and perhaps even PS1, PS2 and PS3 games (although this is very unlikely).
PS6: release date?
According to information from insider KeplerL2 in January 2025, the PS6 entered "pre-silicon validation phase" at the end of 2024. This stage usually occurs two years before the console's release. Thus, the PS6 should be released by the end of 2027.
PS6: what price?
For the moment, no information on this subject.
PS6: what power?
Still no information to date.
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