Games Inbox: PlayStation 6 release date speculation, Starfield bugs, and Spider-Man 2 co-op
The Tuesday letters page works out how much it costs to run a console for an hour, as one reader finally completes Subnautica.
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Start the clock The Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 are going to be two years old this Christmas, which is usually well past the honeymoon period for most consoles. Obviously things have been a bit different this time round but normally you’d expect to start hearing about their successor by the five year mark, in fact I seem to remember the PlayStation 5 was hinted at surprisingly early by Sony, at not much more than four years in.
I think it’s safe to assume that will not be happening this time round but when could we be looking at movement in that area? If we assume the generation hasn’t really started yet, do we just add five years to now and assume we won’t hear about a new console until 2027? That is an awful long way off, especially if you assume the PlayStation 6 won’t be out until a year or so after that.
By that time I imagine Sony would be starting to wonder if a console even makes sense anymore. Will broadband be fast and reliable enough to make streaming only a reality by the end of the decade? If Sony releases a PlayStation 6 in 2028, will it be outdated in just a few years? Because I can bet that Xbox wants to go streaming only as soon as possible. It’s interesting to think where our hobby might be by that point, especially if this generation still doesn’t kick into gear next year.St1nger
People power So that story about fans preparing unofficial patches for Starfield is pretty much the perfect illustration of everything that’s wrong with the modern games industry, both in terms of a terrible thin that publisher do
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