With news that the PlayStation 6 could be delayed by several years, a reader insists that there’s no need to move on from the PlayStation 5.
I read with interest this week, that the PlayStation 6 may be even more delayed than people were expecting. There’s already been talk of a ‘delay’ that would rule out 2027 as a possibility, even though we’ve already had specs leaking and some vague talk from Sony saying it’s on the way. But this latest rumour says it’s going to be even later than that, and maybe not even this decade.
As far as I understand that’s mostly due to the increase in the price of RAM, which is nothing Sony can control, but I think I speak for many PlayStation fans when I say I’m glad to hear it. I have absolutely no use for a PlayStation 6 and would not buy it unless it was incredibly cheap. Which we all know it would not be, in fact it would be the opposite.
I really don’t care though, at this point my PlayStation 5 feels like the iPhone 11 that I’ve had for six years now. It still works as well as they day I got it and there is absolutely no reason in my eyes to ‘upgrade’, especially as there is nothing any other models do that I feel like I’m missing out on. The PlayStation 5 is in exactly the same position, but for consoles.
I don’t know what kind of buzzwords they’re going to end up using for PlayStation 6, but there’s no new technology or features I’m aware of that the PlayStation 5 is missing out on. Even the ones it can do, like ray-tracing, make so little difference it now seems ridiculous that they brought them up in the first place.
I feel like this is the case for most technology at the moment, where everything works fine and there is no next big thing. That’s why tech bros had to make such a big fuss about AI (which isn’t really AI), because they had nothing new to sell and yet that graph of theirs has still got to go up.
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Sony will make something up to justify the PlayStation 6 at the moment, but I very much doubt it’ll convince me or many other people in my situation. The PlayStation 5 has barely got into second gear in terms of being used effectively and even if it had been maxed out the graphics are clearly good enough at the moment that it’s not economically possible to make them better. It’d cost too much and it’d end up with games taking 10 years to make.
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In terms of hardware the PlayStation 5 does everything I can ever imagine using a console for and, as far as I’m concerned, Sony should just accept that and keep selling it for at least another 10 years. I do feel they are sort of coming round to this way of thinking too, even if they were kind of pushed into it by circumstances.
This rumour of a new portable seems like the perfect way to keep things going: make a handheld PlayStation 5 and then you’ve got a new bit of hardware to sell but you don’t have to go through the upheaval and expense of a new home console.
I would also say that keeping the PlayStation 5 around for longer would allow Sony to right the ship in terms of first party exclusives, but I’m not that naïve. I would expect to see at least some improvements though, as they get better at using the console and developers are freed up from working on failed live service games.
But really, I don’t care what Sony does, because I’m not buying it if it’s hardware. The PlayStation 5 does everything I need it to and I can’t imagine any new technology in the next 10 years, and probably 20, that would change anything about how I game. All a new console is going to do is gouge a huge hole out of my wallet that I could’ve spent on games instead.
By reader Wotan
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