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You’ve most likely already heard that the Nintendo Switch 2 is the fastest-selling recreation console in historical past with over 3.5 million offered after 4 days in the marketplace. I’m going to make an informed guess that PlayStation and Xbox noticed Nintendo’s announcement, as a result of each corporations are abruptly quite chatty about their subsequent consoles.
PS6 is ‘high of thoughts’ for Sony
Final week, Sony Interactive Leisure CEO Hideaki Nishino was requested about PlayStation’s {hardware} plans (by way of VGC). He didn’t share any particulars, however did say that “the way forward for the platform is high of thoughts.” He added that the corporate is “dedicated to exploring a brand new and enhanced manner for gamers to interact with our content material and companies.”
Paperwork revealed in 2022 as a part of an investigation into Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard claimed {that a} new era of consoles wasn’t anticipated till fall 2028 on the earliest. That might put the PlayStation 6 over three years away.
Contemplating how quiet Sony has been concerning the PS6 (till now), I’m prepared to wager that’s nonetheless the plan. That stated, with Nintendo prone to dominate the dialog from now by the vacation season, it’s doable these plans may change.
Xbox groups with AMD for subsequent era
To not be ignored, Xbox joined in on the enjoyable with its personal announcement. As revealed by Xbox president Sarah Bond on Tuesday, Xbox has entered into strategic partnership with AMD to co-engineer chips that can energy a spread of upcoming units, together with the next-generation Xbox consoles. Xbox has been extra direct than PlayStation with regards to its successor(s) to the Xbox Collection X/S, however that is the corporate’s largest push thus far.
“The collaboration goals to uplevel the participant expertise by delivering superior graphics with enhanced visible high quality, extra immersive gameplay utilizing the ability of AI, and compatibility with participant’s current Xbox video games library,” Xbox informed us on Tuesday. “Collectively, Xbox and AMD hope to allow play throughout units in totally new methods, delivering an Xbox expertise designed for gamers – with out being confined to a single retailer or tied to 1 gadget.”
Whereas preliminary stories steered the following era wouldn’t start till 2028, the newest rumors have pointed to fall 2026 as a possible launch window for the following Xbox. What type that future console will take is a thriller, however as Brad Sams pointed out on X, Microsoft introduced “Project Scarlett” (aka Xbox Collection X) in June 2019. The Xbox Collection X would then launch in fall 2020. If it follows the same timeline, we may see a brand new console subsequent fall.
