PS6 release date speculation, news and rumours on Sony's next console
The PlayStation 5 cycle has now crossed the halfway point if history if anything to go by, so speculation has naturally shifted to the PlayStation 6.
With the release of thePS5 Slim andPlayStation Portal most recently arriving from Sony and word of a PS5 Pro on the horizon, Sony is not slowing down on hardware anytime soon.
Despite all that, there have been some documents that suggest the current-gen could last a bit longer than previous ones — something to do with those initial days when you couldn't buy a PS5, perhaps?
With that in mind, we've gathered all of the data from around the web to best answer when a PS6 release date might happen and what the console might actually entail.
Read on to discover everything we've heard about the PlayStation 6 and for more speculation on its price and how streaming could make a big difference in the next console generation.
The PS6 doesn't look likely to launch until at least 2028, according to official documents and speculation that has been made around them.
As part of the UK's Competition and Markets Authority investigation into Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard that took place in 2022, documents have revealed that Sony does not intend to release a new console until after 2027.
The interesting part of this document, which certainly seems to imply that Sony will not be launching the next PlayStation console on this side of 2027, reads as follows:
«Microsoft has offered to continue making Activision's games available on PlayStation only until 2027… By the time SIE launched the next generation of its PlayStation console (which is likely to occur around [redacted]), it would have lost access to Call of Duty and other Activision titles, making it extremely vulnerable to consumer switching and subsequent degradation in its competitiveness.»
«Even assuming that SIE had the ability and resources to develop a similarly successful franchise to Call of Duty, it would take many, many years and billions of dollars to
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