Sony’s PS5 console will flip 5 years previous in November, and with a watch on the long run, the corporate just lately revealed its ideas on what’s subsequent for PlayStation. Throughout a business presentation hosted by a number of prime Sony executives, president and CEO Hideaki Nishino responded to a question about future PlayStation {hardware} and if a next-gen PS6 console was even obligatory when cloud gaming has improved through the years.
In accordance with Nishino, whereas cloud gaming is “progressing effectively from a technical standpoint,” sure difficult points like end-to-end community stability stay out of Sony’s management. Nishino added that cloud-based gameplay remains to be a viable possibility for players and permits them to entry extra content material, however the “native execution” of games–via bodily media or content material downloaded on to console hardware–remains in excessive demand by nearly all of PlayStation players.
“Cloud gaming is more and more offering a further possibility for gamers to entry content material, however our perception is that almost all of gamers proceed to wish to play and expertise gaming by way of native execution with out dependency on community circumstances,” Nishino stated. “PS5 and PS5 Professional have validated this thesis, I imagine.”
On the subject of the next-gen PlayStation console, Nishino remained tight-lipped. “Our console enterprise has developed right into a multi-faceted platform, and we now have a big ecosystem of extremely engaged gamers throughout each the PS5 and PS4 generations, so naturally, there’s an enormous curiosity in our next-generation console technique,” Nishino stated. “Whereas we can’t share additional particulars at this stage, the way forward for the platform is prime of thoughts. We’re dedicated to exploring a brand new and enhanced method for gamers to have interaction with our content material and providers.”
What we do know in regards to the PS6 is that it possible will not be out for fairly some time but. Former PlayStation govt Shuhei Yoshida just lately stated that if the following PlayStation comes out in 2028, that will really feel proper to him, given how present console generations usually run for round seven years now.
In 2024, it was reported that Intel made an enormous push to supply chips for the PS6, however Sony determined to stay with AMD. Whereas PlayStation players shall be in for an extended wait, Sony did introduce a mid-gen PS5 refresh final yr within the type of the PS5 Professional.