With console generations typically lasting seven years, we are nearing the assumed end of the PS5's reign as the current-gen Sony affair after all, but to assume is to make a colloquialism for a donkey of 'u' and 'me', as they say, and so we'll be delving deep into when we could realistically expect the PS6 release date, and wince as we investigate how much it will be.
No doubt, there are many moving parts, and only so many levels for Sony to pull to accommodate consumers whilst protecting its own cash flow, so let's get on with just what may lie in store for the PS6.
When will we get a PS6 release date?
Market conditions have changed drastically in the last year, with memory pricing in particular proving to be a sticking point, preventing Sony from committing to a release date, as is the case with the Steam Machine and Steam Frame.
Looking further back, as part of the UK's Competition and Markets Authority investigation into Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard that took place in 2022, documents have revealed that Sony does not intend to release a new console until after 2027.
"Microsoft has offered to continue making Activision's games available on PlayStation only until 2027... By the time SIE launched the next generation of its PlayStation console (which is likely to occur around [redacted]), it would have lost access to Call of Duty and other Activision titles, making it extremely vulnerable to consumer switching and subsequent degradation in its competitiveness."
"Even assuming that SIE had the ability and resources to develop a similarly successful franchise to Call of Duty, it would take many, many years and billions of dollars to create a challenger to Call of Duty – and the example of EA's Battlefield shows that any such efforts would more than likely be unsuccessful."
He added: "Therefore our thinking is that as far as a platform is concerned for the PS5, it’s a cycle of maybe six to seven years. But doing that, a platform lifecycle, we should be able to change the hardware itself and try to incorporate advancements in technology. That was the thinking behind it, and the test case of that thinking was the PS4 Pro that launched in the midway of the PS4 launch cycle."
So there's still likely a fair few years before Sony commits to its next console. If you've been on the fence, now is as good a time as any to upgrade to a PS5.
PS6 price: How much could it cost?
There have already been multiple price increases for the PlayStation 5 this console generation, something Microsoft, Valve and Nintendo have also had to contend with.
In a recent poll, Digital Foundry found that 41% of its viewers would pay $699, $799 and more for a PlayStation 6, which is an increase of $200 and $300 over the PS5 Digital and Disc editions, respectively.
Digital Foundry's viewers are more immersed in the gaming world than a typical consumer, but Sony will no doubt have insight into telemetry that will inform the company how much users would be willing to pay.
Of course, with the global economy in flux due to events such as the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, consumers may find themselves unable to stomach such a cost, but Sony may also find it economically unviable to subsidise the cost of a PS6, given how many users play free-to-play titles these days.
View Green Video on the source websiteWhat could we expect from the PS6?
We have already seen the introduction of PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR), a machine-learning-based upscaler that allows the PS5 Pro to render games at a lower base resolution before upscaling to a higher resolution. This means that developers can use more resources on features such as ray-tracing.
In terms of how this will translate into real-world performance, many believe that the PS6 will have the graphical capabilities of a video card in the region of an Nvidia RTX 5080, being capable of advanced ray-tracing and able to deploy frame generation.
When the PS5 launched, there were many cross-gen titles, such as Dirt 5, which was capable of running at 120 FPS on the then-new console.
To help sell the console, there will no doubt be some sort of exclusive title that shows off the capabilities of the new system.
Another wildcard is that it's likely we will see a PS6 handheld, and so games will have to be able to run on that system, as well as the premier home console.
All said, the next generation is going to be interesting, especially as Valve is making moe inroads with the Steam Machine, Steam Frame and SteamOS becoming available on more systems.
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