With many already assuming that the PlayStation 6 will launch in 2027, a new rumour seems to confirm exactly that.
Sony’s yet to formally announce its next video game console, but it has begun discussing something called Project Amethyst, that it’s working on alongside chip maker AMD, which can reasonably be assumed to be the PlayStation 6.
Last week, PlayStation 5 lead architect Mark Cerny appeared in a video, alongside AMD senior vice president Jack Hunyh, to discuss upcoming technologies Sony plans to implement for unnamed future hardware.
Cerny mentioned ‘bringing them to a future console in a few years’ time,’ which added to rumours that it will launch in 2027 or 2028. As if to confirm that, a new rumour claims to know when Sony will start manufacturing the console, which in turn suggests it’ll arrive sooner rather than later.
This comes from YouTuber Moore’s Law Is Dead, a frequent source of leaks and rumours regarding the next generation of consoles, having accurately shared the specs for the PS5 Pro before its official reveal.
In a recent video, Moore’s Law Is Dead claims to have obtained documentation that states manufacturing for the PlayStation 6 will begin ‘in middle or to even early 2027′ (from the 57:10 mark).
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Back in May 2020, then Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan told the Financial Times that manufacturing on the PlayStation 5 had begun, with the console launching that following November.
Assuming Moore’s Law Is Dead’s info is accurate, and everything goes according to plan, then the PlayStation 6 should arrive around autumn 2027 or spring 2028 at the very latest.
This does line up with previous rumours, as well as the usual console cycle. The PlayStation 5 came out seven years after the PlayStation 4, which in turn came out seven years after the PlayStation 3.
It’s also common for details of a new console’s components and manufacturing plans to leak out early, because that involves multiple external companies, that may not be as good at keeping secrets as Sony.
That said, the circumstances surrounding the launch of the PlayStation 6 will be very different to the PlayStation 5. For one, there (hopefully) won’t be a global pandemic that affects production and results in stock shortages.
There’s also the matter of US president’s Donald Trump’s tariffs against China, which is where the PlayStation 5 is manufactured. It’s already resulted in the price of the console increasing, although for diplomatic reasons Sony has purposefully not admitted to the reason.
The trade war between the US and China is still ongoing and there’s frankly no telling how things will look in two more years (Trump doesn’t have to leave office until January 2029). Sony will likely try to get the console manufactured elsewhere, but that will be a difficult and costly process.
That alone will likely result in the PlayStation 6 being significantly more expensive than current consoles, although the running theory is that it’ll still be cheaper (albeit less powerful) than the new Xbox.
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