Once PS5 Pro It’s official, it seems that the focus of the rumors is now on the next Japanese machine which, if there are no surprises, should be PS6. The new generation that, on paper, still has a long way to go to become reality, and which would only take shape in Sony’s offices to warm up its engines in preparation for an announcement that should not happen for another three years. So there is still a lot of fabric to cut.
And as good builders do, houses must first be built from the foundations, and in the case of a console, everything goes through the chip, through the processor, which, in addition, in this generation of PS5 also provides the GPU to the system. Thus, a bad choice of model or supplier can complicate the future of a machine that, if it has something to boast about, it is power, graphic advances and substantial improvements compared to what we currently have in store.
Sony chooses a chip for PS6, no news
The fact is that, as Reuters reports, Sony you have already chosen your partner to create the base on which they will build the PS6 and this chosen company is none other than AMD. The current head of the chip that assembles the PS5 (a custom processor developed by AMD based on the Zen 2 and RDNA architectures) would be working on another solution for the next generation, something that we can celebrate for many reasons, and the most important one has not been because the power or the technological leap that this will entail, that too.
The main reason why Sony has chosen AMD again has to do with excellent news that will affect our pockets first, namely that the Japanese are opting for a continuous system model that will allow us to continue playing in PS6 both with the purchases we already have on PS4 and with those on PS5. In this way, the backward compatibility is once again at the center of the debate in favor of players.
This, and no other, is the differentiating element that seems to have tipped the balance in favor of AMDand not Intel, which was the main competitor that aspired to become the happy supplier of chips for the future console. But it seems that the legendary company did not convince the Japanese that this condition of maintaining compatibility between generations was possible with its solution.
Intel is still far from AMD and its chips
Anyway, even if the backwards compatibility that allows to solve AMD is the key to the future of PS6According to Sony, its experience on gaming platforms where Intel chips, with integrated GPU, do not give spectacular results, has surely also influenced it. Otherwise, look at the case of MSI Claw, a portable Steam Deck-style PC with abysmal performance data, unable to outperform inferior models like Valve’s own console in many tests and falling far short of what other models like the Asus ROG Ally (X) or Lenovo LEgion Go are capable of.
