PlayStation 6 will launch in 2027 says insider as next gen specs leak

Sony’s adjacent console mightiness beryllium person than expected, arsenic a leaker claims to person details astir the system’s capabilities.

With fractional of each PlayStation players still yet to bargain a PlayStation 5, Sony has a existent task connected its hands convincing radical to put successful the adjacent generation.

A caller console successful the adjacent fewer years mightiness look premature but Sony has already talked about the PlayStation 6. Around the aforesaid clip past year, a report emerged claiming Sony had already struck a woody with AMD to make the console’s technology.

Now, soon aft the reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2, caller insider accusation has emerged astir Sony’s adjacent console, suggesting it is further on successful improvement than antecedently anticipated.

This caller leak stems from insider Kepler, who previously leaked specs for the PS5 Pro console. In a station connected NeoGaf, the leaker claimed the PlayStation 6 is ‘design implicit and successful pre-si[licon] validation already’.

They besides assertion ‘A0 tapeout’ – the process of manufacturing the archetypal iteration of the system’s spot – is ‘scheduled for precocious this year’. According to Kepler, ‘Sony’s accustomed cadence is 2 years from A0 tapeout to console release’.

If true, this means the PlayStation 6 could motorboat successful precocious 2027. This would way with Sony’s gaps betwixt consoles since the PlayStation 3, with the PlayStation 4 arriving 7 years aboriginal successful 2013, and the PlayStation 5 launching aft different 7 years aft that successful 2020.

Sony already described the PlayStation 5 arsenic being successful the ‘latter fractional of the console cycle’ successful February past year, though it’s unclear if this rhythm could beryllium extended if the fig of progressive users connected PlayStation 5 doesn’t leap up significantly. With Xbox besides cooking up a caller console though, Sony volition astir apt privation to motorboat the PlayStation 6 wrong a akin window.

The aforesaid leaker besides claims to person details astir the PlayStation 6’s specifications. According to Kepler, the console’s GPU is simply a ‘fork of [AMD] gfx13’, which was formerly known arsenic RDNA 5 and is present called UDNA.

For comparison, the precocious released PS5 Pro is mostly based connected RDNA 2 architecture, but it uses features backported from RDNA 3 and upcoming RDNA 4 cards too, specifically successful narration to ray-tracing upgrades.

This isn’t the lone caller rumour astir the PlayStation 6 either. According to Chinese forum idiosyncratic zhangzhonghao, who is known for hardware leaks, Sony’s adjacent procreation console volition utilise AMD’s 3D V-Cache technology, which is utilized to signicantly boost show successful its fastest gaming processors.

In short, each this means it volition beryllium precise powerful, which is what you’d expect from Sony’s adjacent console. However, considering the graphical arms contention has go a lawsuit of splitting hairs for astir people, Sony mightiness request thing other if it wants to marque the adjacent PlayStation an appealing and meaningful upgrade.

Along with the PlayStation 6, which mightiness motorboat as 2 antithetic consoles, respective rumours person suggested Sony is moving connected a caller handheld, which could beryllium positioned arsenic a Switch 2 competitor.

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