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The PlayStation 5 Pro reveal has left some gamers feeling bitter. After all, there’s not much news; the price is significantly higher than expected, even if it’s just a sub-generational upgrade, not an entirely new console. But even that is being heavily speculated, with the PlayStation 6 due to be unveiled unexpectedly soon and promising big news. Let’s start “from the end”. Sony’s next-generation gaming console is set to get to market roughly 7 years after the PlayStation 5. This will follow the standard 6-7 year cycle that the Japanese have kept since the first console in 1994. Here’s a brief release history of all Sony’s console generations.
PlayStation – Japan December 1994, Worldwide -September 1995
PlayStation 2 – March 2000
PlayStation 3 – November 2006
PlayStation 4 – November 2013
PlayStation 5 – November 2020
PlayStation 6 – 2027 or 2028 (estimated)
The next-generation console – as Sony refers to it, the name “PlayStation 6” has not yet been confirmed – should offer some neat new and improved features. At the center of it all is supposed to be a new AMD chipset, which Sony is directly involved in. So, a return to Intel is not in the cards for the next generation either. Reportedly, it will combine the Zen 5 processor and the UDNA graphics processor, previously known as RDNA 5. This processor will have 8 cores and 16 threads, which will be a significant improvement over the Zen 2 processor in the PlayStation 5.
