It will take a few years before the console can see the light of day…
PS5 finally takes off, but near the end?
After two difficult years linked to the COVID-19 pandemic and the shortage of semi-components necessary for its manufacture, the PlayStation 5 finally manages to take off in sales. Sony’s console can look to the future with optimism, even if the loss of its partnership with Call of Duty risk of weighing heavily in the decision-making of many players.
Be that as it may, the PS5 catalog is expanding more and more, and the console will even benefit from great exclusives this year, such as Final Fantasy XVI et Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. Launched 3 years ago, the PS5 is well on its way to following in the footsteps of its predecessor, the PlayStation 4, which ranks high among the best-selling consoles of all time.
Marketed from 2013, the PS4 – and its PS4 Pro and PS4 Slim versions – held the house 7 long years before seeing the PS5 arrive. Will Sony continue this pattern for the PS6? It’s possible.
The PS6 already acted, but for which year?
If the rumors of a PS6 will not surprise anyone, Sony has published documents that leave no room for doubt. In this 22-page file, which notably mentions potential acts of sabotage against the PS5 version of Call of Dutyappears on page 8 a comment from the Japanese giant, which affirms that Microsoft “offered the ability to make Activision games available on PlayStation through 2027.”
If this mention does not set in stone the date of the release of Sony’s future console, it corroborates comments made by the specialist journalist Tom Hendersonwhich announced that Sony’s plans for the future are more about the PS6 than a possible PS5 Pro.
In the same way, Jason Schreiera reporter for Bloomberg, said at the beginning of the year that the titles currently entering production would be “probably designed for the PS6.” Given the increasingly long development cycles, the date of 2027 is therefore not so far-fetched.