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Metro
5 days ago
- Metro
PS6 will be 20% faster than next gen Xbox suggests leaked specs
New rumours for the PS6 give a good indication of its release date, price, and how powerful it will be compared to its Xbox counterpart. We're now at that stage in the generation where new consoles from Sony and Microsoft are becoming imminent but nothing official has been announced, other than that they exist. It's still not certain what year they'll be released – either 2027 or 2028 – but a new rumour claims it's the former for the PlayStation 6, which means the next gen Xbox won't be far behind. That in turn means we'll almost certainly get an official reveal next year, with a small chance of this year (the Xbox Series X was unveiled at The Game Awards in December). The release dates won't be set in stone yet, but the latest rumour also deals with the supposed power of the machines and, if true, it seems the new PlayStation will once again beat its Xbox rival, by a relatively significant margin. For many fans, the new generation seems to be arriving too early, especially as there was such little improvement in graphics from the PlayStation 4 to 5. That implies there'll be even less between the PlayStation 5 and 6, but rather than looking for some new selling point this latest leak implies that Sony is going all out to make their next console as powerful as possible. Anonymous insider KeplerL2 has been leaking information on both consoles for some time now, although this appears to be because of information he gets from AMD sources, rather than directly from Sony or Microsoft. Writing on the forum NeoGAF, KeplerL2 states that the PlayStation 6's chip design has already been finalised and should reach the A0 tapeout step (the first time the finished chip is manufactured) this autumn, which means the console itself should be ready for sale roughly two years later. Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. Because AMD is providing chips to both next gen consoles it means that anyone that has insider information from them is able to make quite specific comparisons. KeplerL2 claims that the PlayStation is equivalent to a Radeon RX 9070 XT graphic card, while the next gen Xbox is closer to a less powerful RTX 5080. That would make the PlayStation 6 roughly 20% more powerful than its would-be Xbox rival, which is roughly the same as the difference between the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Supposedly the next gen consoles will have every feature of AMD's latest Blackwell microarchitecture 'and then some'. This is likely to include path-tracing, a new and even more realistic evolution of ray-tracing. There are more technical details in KeplerL2's original posts, as well as links to related patents, but the problem with tech specs, whether official or unofficial, is they only give a very limited idea of what a console is capable of, with the actual graphics being far more dependent on the skill, or lack thereof, of the developer. Not to mention practical and monetary limitations. More Trending The PlayStation 5 might be 20% more powerful than the Xbox Series X on paper but that is barely evident in reality, with most multiformat games looking all but identical. If next gen Xbox hardware sales perform even worse than the Xbox Series X/S then publishers may be convinced to focus more solely on the PlayStation 6 but that will be something that Microsoft will be trying its level best to convince them not to do. Pricing is impossible to predict at this point, given Trump's ever-changing tariffs, but supposedly the idea is that the PlayStation 6 should be less than the £699 PS5 Pro and ideally the same as the £449/$499 launch price of the PlayStation 5. There's no mention of the frequently rumoured new PlayStation handheld, in this new batch of rumours, but also no attempt to suggest it doesn't exist. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: Fortnite's Power Rangers live action trailer is easily its best one ever MORE: A new Nintendo Direct is due this week and Silksong fans want a release date MORE: The 8-Bit Big Band interview – 'like if Mozart wrote chiptune music'
Metro
7 days ago
- Metro
Xbox console sales are even worse than thought according to latest estimates
With Xbox console sales still in decline an insider suggests that the lifetime totals for the Xbox Series X/S are even lower than assumed. Although many companies avoid revealing video game sales figures, console manufacturers do usually update hardware results with each of their quarterly financial reports. Not Microsoft though, as they stopped saying how many consoles they've sold back in the Xbox One era and so there are no official figures for it or the Xbox Series X/S. The closest they've got is admitting that hardware sales have been decreasing by double digits for the last several quarters, with Take-Two Interactive indirectly confirming that the PlayStation 5 has sold more than twice that of its Xbox rival. Current sales for the Xbox Series X/S have been estimated at north of 33 million, compared to 75 million for the PlayStation 5, but an insider claims that the figures are even worse than that and that Xbox's current gen consoles haven't even hit the 30 million milestone yet. It's estimated that the Xbox One sold around 58 million units in its lifetime, compared to over 113 million for the PlayStation 4 and a current total of over 153 million for the Switch (and 13.56 million for the Wii U). By comparison, its predecessor the Xbox 360, which Microsoft did give official figures for, sold 84 million units – although it still came last in its generation. The information comes from insider KeplerL2, who has proven an accurate source for AMD related information – the chipmaker used by both Microsoft and Sony. KeplerL2 was participating in a thread on NeoGAF, which was discussing a claim that the Xbox Series X/S consoles have sold 37 million units. To this, he simply replied: 'They aren't even at 30 million.' Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. He insisted that this wasn't guesswork and that you can work out a rough total by using a combination of Sony's sales data and the total number of chips AMD has provided for consoles this generation. Even so, only Microsoft knows the exact numbers and it's estimated that the lowest possible number is 21 million consoles and the maximum is 29 million, which is very poor for almost five years on the market. Interestingly, KeplerL2 suggests that the Xbox Series X 'should be' profitable now, after a manufacturing and design upgrade – which often happens to consoles a few years after launch. More Trending At the same time, he suggests that, as far as he knows, the standard PlayStation 5 models are still being sold at a loss and only the more expensive PS5 Pro is currently being sold at a profit. Although it's begun to change in recent generations, it always used to be the case that consoles were sold at a minor loss (as usual, except for Nintendo) for all or most of their lifespan, with console manufacturers making their money from game sales and charging a licensing fee to third party publishers. If Xbox sales are as bad as suggested then Microsoft will be making very little from licensing fees, while Sony will be doing extremely well, as the PlayStation 5 continues to be the lead format for third party games this generation. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: Starfield on PS5 rumoured for 2026 but risks coming out alongside GTA 6 MORE: Metroid Prime 4 will launch in 2025 on Switch 2 confirms Nintendo MORE: Marvel Tōkon beta sign-ups aren't working but there's a very easy fix
Yahoo
19-07-2025
- Yahoo
PS5 Pro Games Might Need Special Patch for 2026 PSSR Update
When PSSR gets a major upgrade next year, existing Pro Enhanced games might need a special patch to take advantage of the new upscaler, according to a known leaker. In 2026, PS5 Pro will support a new AMD FSR4 model that promises signficantly better performance than current PSSR. PS5 Pro PSSR will get a 'drop-in replacement' in 2026, says Mark Cerny In a recent interview with Tom's Guide, PlayStation architect Mark Cerny said that the new PS5 Pro upscaler will be 'a drop-in replacement for the current PSSR' that developers can easily accommodate. However, he didn't elaborate further. Now, reliable AMD leaker Kepler L2 (via Wccftech) has suggested that Sony's current upscaler isn't set up to allow 'system-level DLL swaps,' which means that existing PS5 Pro Enhanced games won't have immediate support for the new upscaler right out of the gate. Studios will have to patch their games if they want to take advantage of the new tech. As previously mentioned, Cerny did say that it will be easy for devs to accommodate the 2026 upgrade, but whether all developers will be on board to patch their exsiting games or not remains to be seen. That said, PS5 Pro has seen robust support from the industry, so we don't foresee a long list of unpatched games. The post PS5 Pro Games Might Need Special Patch for 2026 PSSR Update appeared first on PlayStation LifeStyle.
Digital Trends
18-07-2025
- Digital Trends
If the latest PS6 leaks are true, you might want to start saving up now
New leaks have hit the internet that could shed some light on what kind of chip will be powering the PS6. Coming from Moore's Law Is Dead, he claims to have uncovered all the technical details about the special AMD chip that they believe will power the next-generation hardware, but if true, we might need to prepare for a very expensive console. According to the video from Moore's Law Is Dead, the AMD Zen 6 chip that he believes will be powering the PS6 is codenamed Magnus. This chip will supposedly run on 11 CPU cores split into 3 Zen 6 and 8 Zen 6 C cores. He goes into much greater detail about things like the 264 mm squared graphics die and 384-bit memory bus, but the highlights are how much more efficient the memory transfer will be and the increased number of cores. Moore's Law Is Dead believes this chip is destined for a future PlayStation console because it's described as a 'semi-custom business unit', which is a term historically tied to console chipsets. Recommended Videos The name Magnus also has some connections to prior Sony chip codenames (e.g. Jupiter), though another notable leaker, going by KeplerL2, believes Magnus is more aligned with Xbox codenames. While this should all be taken with a grain of salt until Sony or Microsoft comment, I find the speculated console cost more plausible given details of such a chipset. KeplerL2 states that 'If they go ahead with third party store support which means selling hardware at a profit this could easily be >$1,500.' That would be the most expensive console yet, and more than double the cost of a PS5 Pro. We're probably still years away from both the PS6 and whatever next-gen Xbox hardware turns out to be, but if that's the price range we can expect, you might want to start saving up now.
Scottish Sun
27-06-2025
- Scottish Sun
Surprise ‘PS6 leak' leaves stunned gamers saying ‘this is nuts' over top-secret details about ‘powerful' new machine
GAME ON Surprise 'PS6 leak' leaves stunned gamers saying 'this is nuts' over top-secret details about 'powerful' new machine Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) TOP secret details about the rumoured new PS6 have been leaked, with gamers left stunned by the "nuts" changes. The next PS6 handheld console is rumoured to be released next by Sony's PlayStation for the next generation of gaming hardware. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 1 The PlayStation 6 will follow the PS5 as Sony's newest handheld console Credit: Getty KelperL2, who has previously shared information, provided more technical details of what they claim will be part of the new PS6 handheld console on the NeoGAF forum. The post was shared on the GamingLeaksAndRumours Subreddit, which had KeplerL2 state: "The only AMD handheld with AI upscaling anytime soon will be the PlayStation handheld." New technical details of the PS6 KelperL2 also revealed that the portable PS6 will have 16GB of RAM, 16MB MALL cache and 4MB L2. This is more cache and improved memory compression than the PS5, although the handheld will only have 1/3 the memory bandwidth of the PS5. They said: "It's pretty obvious that a mode that cuts bandwidth in half is meant to stimulate the handheld." Improved processing speeds and performance improvements, however, may offset the lower memory bandwidth. They added: "There is no planned Z3 lineup for AMD's next-gen APUs. "The next OEM handheld APU lineup (if it happens at all, as AMD seems to be losing interest in this market) will be with their next-next-gen lineup in 2029. Last year, the leaker also commented in a NeoGAF forum in September that the rumoured PS6 has "two SoCs (System-on-a-Chip) in development for next-gen, idk if it's a Series X/S situation or home console + handheld but probably one of them will be affordable at least". They also speculated about the PS6 handheld on the same forum that it's console is a "15W SoC on 3nm", which is less powerful that the current PS5. PS5 and Xbox owners unlock huge game freebie you only have five days to claim – you don't need even need subscription This sparked speculation about whether the PS6 would even be able to play PS5 if less powerful, but KeplerL2 explained: "It can definitely run PS5 games, just not at the same resolution / FPS (frames per second), mainly due to lower memory bandwidth." They added on another comment from a user: "Hard to estimate performance since it's using an unreleased GPU uarch but I think it's somewhere between XSS (Xbox Series S) and PS5." Another hardware leaker who is a reputable source on Chiphell, zhangzhonhao, also claimed the PS6 console will use AMD's next generation UDNA architecture. The GPU will succeed AMD's RDNA 4 and CDNA by combining them, for possibly enhanced ray-tracing in the light, and is used in the PS5 Pro console. Responses from gamers After details from KeplerL2 were shared on Reddit, gamers responded in the comments. One self-proclaimed active member of the Dev community wrote: "This this nuts and also bonkers". Another added: "This is massive news. "My biggest worry with this handheld was no AI upscaling while Switch 2 has DLSS. "Looks like a very compelling product now." PlayStation release date history Sony has turned out an enormous array of consoles over the years. Here's a list of PlayStation release dates, along with the days of the week that they launched on: PlayStation – Saturday, December 3, 1994 (1st Saturday) PS One – Friday, July 7, 2000 (1st Friday) PlayStation 2 – Saturday, March 4, 2000 (1st Saturday) PS2 Slimline – Friday, October 29, 2004 (5th Friday) PlayStation 3 – Saturday, November 11, 2006 (2nd Saturday) PS3 Slim – Thursday, August 27, 2009 (4th Thursday) PS3 Super Slim – Tuesday, September 25, 2012 (4th Tuesday) PlayStation 4 – Friday, November 15, 2013 (3rd Friday) PS4 Slim – Thursday, September 15, 2016 (3rd Thursday) PS4 Pro – Thursday, November 10, 2016 (2nd Thursday) PlayStation 5 – Thursday, November 12, 2020 (2nd Thursday) PS5 Slim – Friday, November 10, 2023 (2nd Friday) Trends show a six to seven year gap between major console releases, however there is no confirmed date for when gamers can expect to get their hands on the PS6. Predictions suggest Sony's preference for "the second or third week of November", as during the end of the week on a Thursday or Friday or Saturday.
