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.
- 500 GB capacity hard drive
- Enjoy incredibly vivid and bright colors with stunning HDR graphics
- 30% thinner and 16% lighter than the original PS4 model
- Includes two Dualshock 4 V2 controllers and Fortnite content
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 cannot catch up with the rapid development of technology, therefore we think that when it comes to a platform for the PS5, it is a cycle of about six to seven years. But to do that, a lifecycle platform, we should be able to change the hardware itself and try to incorporate advancements in technology. That was the thought behind it, and the test case for that thought was the PS4 Pro that 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
