About a year to go until the new Sony console is launched on the market. So far we have seen photos of the DevKit of it, which by the way, is not liking much. Now the company is celebrating 25 years since the launch of the first PlayStation. During an interview with Masayasu Ito, Executive Vice President of Hardware Engineering and Operation at SIE, he spoke about the PlayStation 5 Pro.
Many things are being said about the future Sony console, which may not be a reality. They have even leaked a kind of cartridges for the PlayStation 5 that would integrate an SSD drive. We do not know their functionality, but they remind us a lot of the Memory Cards of the first PlayStation.
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A PlayStation 5 Pro in the future?
Ito has highlighted that current consoles have a life cycle of between 7 and 10 years. Sony on this occasion would have reduced the life cycle of the console, going to be 6-7 years.
In fact, in the past, the cycle for a new platform was 7 to 10 years, but in view of the rapid development and evolution of technology, it is really a platform cycle of six to seven years.
So we can't catch up with the rapid development of technology, so we think that as far as a platform for the PS5 is concerned, it's a cycle of about six to seven years. But to do that, a platform lifecycle, we should be able to change the hardware itself and try to incorporate advances in the technology. That was the thinking behind it, and the test case for that thinking was the PS4 Pro which launched midway through the PS4 release cycle.
If this is confirmed we could see the PlayStation 6 for 2026-2027 or maybe not. Smartphones are becoming highly powerful for gaming thanks to Qualcomm. The company launched the Snapdragon 865 that offers us high graphics quality in games and 144GHz refresh rate. This without counting Google Stadia and the alternatives to it that are yet to come.
Source: TT
