Shortly after the announcement of the PS5 Pro, there are already new reports about the PlayStation 6 – especially about its chip and possible backwards compatibility. Important decisions are said to have been made in the meantime on the way to the release.
Sony recently officially announced the PlayStation 5 Pro, which will be available in November 2024 with a considerable price tag. But now the media landscape is already looking further ahead, as key decisions are said to have been made regarding the new console generation, namely the PlayStation 6.
According to a new report by the renowned news magazine Reuters Thanks to the support of PSSR on the PS5 Pro, AMD finally seems to be becoming more competitive again compared to NVIDIA’s DLSS – and they seem to want to continue this trend with the PlayStation 6.
The contract between Sony and AMD for the PS6 SoC has already been finalized and signed. AMD’s system-on-chip hardware will therefore supply the CPU, GPU and blocks for machine learning for the new PS6.
The focus will also be on the backward compatibility of the PlayStation 6 with the current PS5, which will be ensured by using the AMD chip and is a high priority for Sony. All PS5 software will therefore also be able to run on the upcoming PlayStation 6.
Interesting: While AMD was awarded the contract for the chip, other competitors are said to have also been vying for Sony’s favor for the new console. Broadcom and Intel also threw their chips into the ring for the PS6, but AMD’s simple solutions for backwards compatibility are said to have tipped the scales in favor of this provider.
“Leaving AMD, which already made the PS5 chip, in favor of Intel would have risked backwards compatibility, which was a topic in discussions between Sony and Intel executives and engineers,” says Reuters for example in this regard. “Ensuring backwards compatibility with earlier versions of the PlayStation would therefore have been costly and resource-intensive.”
According to current information, the PlayStation 6 is expected to be released in 2028, which would make the PS5 generation last a year longer than the PlayStation 4. The PS6 is expected to offer even better image reconstruction techniques, as well as better ray tracing performance and a noticeable improvement in CPU speed.
It’s official, the new PS5 Pro will be released on November 7th with a more powerful GPU, AI upscaling and 2TB SSD.
