We’ve seen a lot of news over the past few months that suggests this Sony could launch PS6 between late 2027 and mid or late 2028dates that make a lot of sense as they would leave the PS5 with an individual life cycle of 8 years, although its total life cycle would be longer as it would have to co-exist with the PS6 for at least two years.

We’ve also seen reports that take it almost for granted Sony will switch from PS5 Proand will focus all its efforts on the development and launch of the PS6a console that will be a next generation model and that will represent a really important evolution from the current model that would not be possible with the PS5 Pro due to costs and compatibility issues.

Although nothing has been officially confirmed yet, new rumors from industry sources have reaffirmed everything we just told you, as they reiterate that Sony will launch the PS6 in 2028 and that the PS5 Pro will not. They also suggest that Mark Cerny was chosen to take care of the hardware for this new consolewhich means Sony would be happy with the job they did with the PS5.

Does this all make sense? It’s a question I’ve asked myself on more than one occasion and I stand by it, it makes sense because The PS5 has more balanced hardware than the PS4, and therefore should age better than said console. But that doesn’t mean it won’t show signs of exhaustion, in fact the opposite is true, we’ve already seen them in some titles and ray tracing has proven to be too great for the current generation of consoles.

On the other hand, it should be considered that the PS5 is now going live second youth, its sales are skyrocketing, its availability is increasing, and Sony didn’t have to lower the price of the console to make interest in it enormous. The curious thing is that the opposite happened, the price went up by 50 euros and he didn’t have the slightest problem.

Sony could cover this five-year margin until the arrival of the PS6 the new cheaper PS5 modeland could face the final margin with further price drops that would keep said console interesting despite the fact that it would already be in the twilight of its life cycle.

It will be interesting to see what hardware Cerny decides to mount on that PS6. Because we’re still a few years away It’s hard to guess but the most logical would be a system with 32 GB of unified memory, Radeon RDNA5 graphics and a processor on the Zen 5 or Zen 6 architecture. Will this processor have more than 8 cores and 16 threads? It can, although I’m leaning more toward the idea of ​​increasing IPC and frequencies than more parallelization.