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Metro
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
The best thing the PS6 can do is be less powerful than PS5 - Reader's Feature
A reader argues that rising costs in the games industry means Sony would be wise to make the PS6 less powerful than current gen consoles. In two years' time we're going to be drowning in news, rumours and leaks about the PlayStation 6. Everything seems to point towards it coming out in 2027 and I have not met a single person that's excited about it. Everybody thinks it's too soon, everyone thinks the PlayStation 5 has barely started, and everyone thinks Sony has dropped the ball in terms of games. Or maybe everyone doesn't think that. Maybe I'm just living in a bubble with my video game savvy friends, but it doesn't matter because dread it, run from it, the PlayStation 6 will arrive all the same. We haven't got any details yet, that I'm aware of, but the few hints we've had are of a new console (and a portable) that is even more powerful than the last one and no doubt even more expensive. Considering the PS5 Pro is already the most expensive console I don't even want to think about how much the PlayStation 6 is going to cost. As we all know by now, more powerful means it'll take even longer to make games and need more money and people. This will mean less games, less often, and absolutely no risks of any kind – including probably any new IP at all. We've already seen this in this generation, where everything's slowed to a crawl, but a new console is only going to make things worse. What makes the whole situation all the sadder is that there is no way on Earth the extra power is going to make any difference. There's barely any difference between PlayStation 4 and 5 games as it is, so the difference between 5 and 6 is going to be miniscule and certainly nothing a normal person will ever notice. Remember that PlayStation 5 tech demo that looked a bit like Tomb Raider? We haven't seen anything like that so far in an actual game, so that was all just a lie. They always are, I know, but whatever excuse they try to give for the PlayStation 6 needing to exist is going to be a con. 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. Considering everything going on in gaming at the moment the only decision that makes any sense to me is making the PlayStation 6 less powerful than the PlayStation 5. If that sounds silly to you, I guarantee the vast majority of people wouldn't even notice. If you told them it was more powerful (which I'm not suggesting Sony do) they'd probably believe it, just because nothing in terms of graphics has looked any different in years. Sony should explain that in order for the portable and console machines to be running the same games they had to lower the overall power, since a portable can never be as powerful as a home console. There are better reasons to decrease the power though and not just because it'll make the console cheaper. We've known about the problem that games cost too much to make for years now and nobody has done a thing about it. Not Sony and not anyone else. If the PlayStation 6 is more powerful – if it is just another box under the TV- then the problem is only going to continue to get worse until something snaps and suddenly video games just aren't viable anymore. I don't want to see a future where the only video games are indies, mobile games, and free to play, but that is where we're headed, and very quickly. The future should be AA games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream (which I haven't played yet but was fascinated to hear about this week). But none of the big publishers care about that, they think it's small beans and not worth bothering with. If they carry on their current course, games will end up costing £100+ (there's already rumours of that for GTA 6), they'll take 10 years to make, and they'll only be the safest of safe franchises and ideas. It's not just publishers I worry aren't doing anything about this ticking time bomb, it's gamers who just hope the problem is going to magically go away. If games become unprofitable publishers will simply stop making them. They won't start making cheaper games because then their graphs won't go up, they'll just find something else to make money from. More Trending Something has to change. It's not enough even to draw the line here, they have to go back to before the PlayStation 5, when companies could still afford to make games and we could still afford to pay for them. By reader Captone The reader's features do not necessarily represent the views of GameCentral or Metro. You can submit your own 500 to 600-word reader feature at any time, which if used will be published in the next appropriate weekend slot. Just contact us at gamecentral@ or use our Submit Stuff page and you won't need to send an email. MORE: The standards for video game reviews need to be higher - Reader's Feature MORE: Zelda: The Wind Waker is still an amazing game that can inspire future sequels – Reader's Feature MORE: I wish Bethesda didn't make Fallout and The Elder Scrolls - Reader's Feature
Metro
5 days ago
- Metro
PS6 and next gen Xbox could cost over £1,000 based on AMD chip leak
Details have leaked concerning a powerful new AMD chip, which an insider believes is connected to Microsoft's new Xbox console. The idea of another console generation might seem premature at this point, considering both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S have barely hit their full potential, but the next wave of consoles might only be a couple of years away at this point. Sony's PlayStation 6 is expected to arrive in 2027, while Microsoft's next console could launch even sooner. Both companies have already started talking about their next gen plans, with the latter promising the 'largest technical leap' ever seen in a hardware generation. Those comments will likely end up being classic Microsoft posturing (most people think it's related to AI) but a leak of a new AMD chip has hinted at what might be under the hood of the next Xbox. This leak originates from YouTuber Moore's Law Is Dead, who previously outed specs around the Switch 2. In a new video, he claims to have details about a custom Zen 6 APU (accelerated processing unit) from AMD, codenamed Magnus. During the video, the YouTuber highlights how the APU has an 384-bit bus, which is used to transfer memory efficiently. As he points out, this is significantly larger than the Xbox Series X's 320-bit bus, which is the largest on the console market right now – although one was previously used in the Xbox One X. He also highlights various other powerful components, including an unusual total of 11 CPU cores (split between three Zen6 cores and eight Zen6c cores), while the system on a chip is a large 144mm², which is connected via a bridge die to a 'massive' 264mm² graphics die. 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. According to Moore's Law Is Dead, this APU is described as a 'semi-custom business unit', which is apparently what you would list if you were making an APU for a console. Based on this information, he speculates it could be connected to Sony's PlayStation 6. However, fellow tech insider, Kepler, chimed in on this theory on X. In a post, Kepler claimed it is 'probably' tied to the next gen Xbox instead, as AMD codenames for PlayStation consoles are often derived from Shakespeare characters (a recent example is Jupiter, which is supposedly connected to a new PlayStation handheld). 'Yeah, the design in general looks too expensive to be the PlayStation 6,' Kepler added. '[Mark] Cerny is a lot more conservative with die area.' That is probably the next-gen Xbox, the codenames that AMD uses for Playstation SoCs are from Shakespeare characters. — Kepler (@Kepler_L2) July 18, 2025 If the next gen Xbox is using this Magnus APU, Kepler claims the console is 'not gonna be cheap' and could be upwards of $1,500 (£1,116). More Trending 'If they go ahead with third party store support which means selling hardware at a profit this could easily be > $1,500,' they added. Neither Sony or Microsoft have ever released a console above £1,000 before, but based on the current trajectory of prices, it doesn't feel entirely unbelievable. The PS5 Pro is already £699.99, so any next gen console will, in theory, cost even more. The big question is what Sony and Microsoft can offer to justify the inevitably ludicrous price of its next consoles, especially as advancements in graphics have already become a case of splitting frame rate hairs. Last month, Microsoft confirmed it had signed a multi-year deal with AMD to create chips for a 'portfolio of devices', including 'the next generation of Xbox consoles in your living room and in your hands'. 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: Here's how you can play Nintendo's secret online Switch game this month MORE: Elden Ring creators FromSoftware will have two new games next year claims report MORE: Call Of Duty 2027 will launch new franchise with martial arts theme says leaker
Metro
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
I've given up on getting a PS5 and I've already got real concerns about PS6
A reader explains why they never got a PS5 and how they fear the PS6 will suffer from all the same issues that convinced them not to upgrade from a PS4. I'm not usually what you would call an early adopter. Like most of us, I always have a massive backlog of games but I'm also not a big fan of being a Guinea pig for companies, if there happens to be a problem with the hardware. But mostly it's just because there's usually nothing much of interest at launch and if you wait a few years things get cheaper too. I'm one of those people that are still playing my PlayStation 4. I was planning my usual thing of getting a next gen console about two years in, but when that time came around for the PlayStation 5, that's exactly when Sony stopped making single-player games. The problem now, is that there's already talk of the PlayStation 6 and yet at the same time there's no sign that Sony is going back to anything close to how they used to make games. So even if I did get the PlayStation 6 on day one, to compensate for skipping a generation, I'm not sure we're going to be in a better a situation. They say that Microsoft is trying to kill the concept of exclusives but to me Sony is doing much more damage, simply because nobody has an Xbox anyway, so it doesn't really matter what they do. But PlayStation 5 is the default console of the generation and all it's doing is teaching Sony that they don't need exclusives to sell their consoles. And if they don't need them then no one else does either (except Nintendo, but I'll get to them in a minute). If that's the obvious lesson from the PlayStation 5, and it is showing no sign of changing, then why would things be any different on the PlayStation 6? From Sony's perspective it just doesn't make any sense spending hundreds of millions of dollars on making a AAA game, only to make a tiny profit or even a loss – as happened with Spider-Man 2. They'll keep making live service games, I'm sure, but they're all going to be on PC day one or soon after anyway. Either way, the idea that exclusives sell consoles is being broken down. 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. I'm not the first one to point this out and the usual solution I see from other people is either a PC or a Switch (2 now, I suppose). But I don't want either. I respect Nintendo – more than I respect Sony – but I still don't really like most of their games. And I hate the idea of having to constantly upgrade a PC and the general difficulty of getting games to work on it and the fact that they're not well optimised even after that. Perhaps I will have to force myself to learn to live with a PC but – and I think this is the heart of the problem for many people – I was very happy with my PlayStation 4. Its graphics were great, its line-up of games was fantastic, and it had plenty of top notch exclusives. For me it was the perfect console and it did not need replacing, not for the paltry improvements offered by the PlayStation 5. But if they were going to do it, it needed to learn all the tricks of the PlayStation 5 and amplify them. Instead, it ripped them out and trod them into the dirt. More Trending I don't see any reason to believe the PlayStation 6 will be any different and that worries me. Not just for the sake of the console itself but whether I'm losing my love for gaming, not wanting to put up with Sony's nonsense. In my opinion it's all their fault, and I can't believe that I'm the only one who is beginning to feel very disenfranchised by the whole PlayStation brand. By reader Sagashow The reader's features do not necessarily represent the views of GameCentral or Metro. You can submit your own 500 to 600-word reader feature at any time, which if used will be published in the next appropriate weekend slot. Just contact us at gamecentral@ or use our Submit Stuff page and you won't need to send an email. MORE: Competition does not drive innovation in video games, talent does – Reader's Feature MORE: Everyone should play Rematch: the best new football game in years – Reader's Feature MORE: As an Xbox fan all I can say is that Microsoft betrayed us - Reader's Feature
Metro
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Gaming peaked with the PS4 and I want the PS6 to recognise that
A reader is frustrated with the current state of gaming and hopes that the PS6 will be a simple and straightforward console, that focuses on single-player games. After watching Xbox self-destruct this week, I have to say that, as a PlayStation owner, I'm not happy about it. I'm a PlayStation owner , not fan, and I am under no delusions that Sony is interested in me for anything other than the contents of my wallet. They're not my friend and if left unchecked, without any direct competition, they will be as anti-consumer as the law allows, and then some. So, I'm not pleased that PlayStation has beaten Xbox, quite the opposite. If not for the Xbox 360, Sony would've served up the PlayStation 3 just as it was and expected us to swallow it all down with no complaints – high price and no games. If that had continued, then who knows what we'd have to be putting up with by now. We'll be in exactly that position but worse with the PlayStation 6, if things go badly. At least with the PlayStation 3, Sony still recognised that their main job was to make a powerful console with good exclusives. Nowadays all Sony seems interested in is doing the absolute minimum effort, while chasing the dream of a successful live service game. Sony will be celebrating the failures at Xbox, not because it was ever particularly close competition, but because now they've got free reign to do whatever they want, with no other choice for people other than the Switch 2. Although the good games keep coming there's a lot to be worried about with gaming at the moment, and I'm already concerned about the rumours that the PlayStation 6 is going to be a hybrid console or a portable and a home one, like the next gen Xbox. I don't want any of that. The hybrid will compromise the graphics and a portable will be expensive and compromise on graphics. All I want is for the PlayStation 6 to be a normal console with normal games. 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. I know that might not seem very adventurous but as far as I'm concerned gaming peaked with the PlayStation 4 and the more we move away from that, in terms of time and the attitude of Sony – and, for what it's worth, Microsoft – the more it feels like the whole concept of gaming is leaking away. For years now we've had mobile gaming, free-to-play, microtransactions, and live service games eating away at gaming, and very successfully too. Mobile is the most common way for people to play games nowadays, while the games they do play on consoles and PC are usually just one of a dozen or so 'forever games', many of which have been out for a decade or more. I hate all of that. If you're into them then great, I'm not trying to take it away from you. I just want what I like to exist as well, but at the moment it barely does. Sony is so off the ball this generation it's as if they're not even playing. They know what people want but they're point blank not giving us it, in favour of playing roulette with the idea of having a hit live service game. All I want is a boring, ordinary console: powerful, quiet, and ideally not the size of a house. I don't want it to be portable or to have 'innovative' controllers or any other nonsense. I just want it to put all its effort into running games and that's it. Wanting a boring console isn't a bad thing, it just means I want Sony to provide a format and let the games speak for themselves. Proper games, not forever games, and ideally primarily single-player games. Just like it was on the PlayStation 4. More Trending I have no idea whether any of my pleas will be answered but if the PlayStation 6 is a gimmick console, where most of its games are live service titles, then I'll be lamenting the collapse of Xbox all the more. By reader Carlton The reader's features do not necessarily represent the views of GameCentral or Metro. You can submit your own 500 to 600-word reader feature at any time, which if used will be published in the next appropriate weekend slot. Just contact us at gamecentral@ or use our Submit Stuff page and you won't need to send an email. MORE: After 24 years of wasted potential the Xbox dream is finally dead - Reader's Feature MORE: Rainbow Road in Mario Kart World is the best track ever – Reader's Feature MORE: Square Enix should hire the Expedition 33 team for Final Fantasy 17 - Reader's Feature
Scottish Sun
03-07-2025
- Scottish Sun
Sony insider drops huge hint about PS6 release date
Cerny's mention of a "multi-year" timeline suggests analysts may be correct with their 2027 or 2028 forecasts. THE coveted PlayStation 6 could be released in as little as two years, according to analysts and a top Sony insider. However, Mark Cerny, the lead architect of several Sony consoles, is in no rush to get the PS6 onto shelves. 1 The PS6 is still thought to be years away Credit: sONY In a new interview, Cerny explained that PS5 Pro software enhancements, like FSR 4 upscaling, are his priority, Notebook Check reported. Many analysts have projected a PS6 release date in 2027 or 2028. While recent discussions have raised hopes that the PS6 release date may arrive sooner rather than later - it is still thought to be years away. Cerny, the lead designer of the PlayStation Vita, PS4 and PS5, appeared to be focused on boosting existing Sony consoles and games through software updates. "What I'm trying to do is prepare for the next generation of consoles, so my timeframe is multi-year here," he said. Talk of a "multi-year" timeline suggests analysts may be correct with their 2027 or 2028 forecasts. Although a handheld device that supports PS5 games may also be released around the same time, analysts have noted. Gaming rival Microsoft is set to launch its first handheld Xbox console later this year, after years of speculation. PlayStation release date history Sony has turned out an enormous array of consoles over the years. Sony issuing refunds to PS5 owners over gaming blunder as players given 'sincere apology' and promised urgent fix Here's a list of PlayStation release dates, along with the days of the week that they launched on:
