It has not yet been a year since the release of the PS5 on the market, but already many are wondering what it will be and when the PlayStation 6 will arrive. Will the generation cycle of the new Sony flagship be the same as PS4, or will the Japanese giant’s latest platform have a longer life?
Obviously, we have no official news on the future of PlayStation, but it is possible to reflect on these first months of PS5 starting from the impact that the pandemic has had on the gaming industry and in particular on the hardware market, in crisis due to the strong shortage of semiconductors. which has slowed the production of every next-gen game system. Forced to limit its stocks while scoring important sales milestones, Sony has therefore had to give up a wider spread of its latest platform, at least for the moment.
With this in mind, it is reasonable to think of a possible extension of the PlayStation 5 life cycle, beyond the canonical 7 years of life that represented the previous console generations and that they would see a planned end in 2027. Clearly, it is difficult to predict how things will go, PlayStation 5 has in fact just been launched and sales travel at a ” reduced rate ” due to the known problems of availability of semiconductors (a problem that is making life difficult even for Microsoft and CPU manufacturers. and GPUs like AMD and NVIDIA)
This does not mean that the Japanese company is not already thinking about the future: we know that Sony is hiring staff for the new PlayStation, in particular looking for designers and engineers aimed at a technological research sector in the hardware field. A piece of news that, as predictable, confirms a first, initial step towards the post PS5. In this regard, the registration of trademarks from PS6 to PS10 in Japan should be noted, a commercial move to prevent unauthorized use of the trademark.
