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leo-j on 20 February 2025
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XtremeBG said:
leo-j said:

Xbox will launch a year to 6 months early imo (late 2026).
Nintendo switch 2 will launch late summer 2025.

^unless sony pushes portal heavily and makes a portal that can DL everything up to ps4 gen to compete with handheld market, I see those 2 starting to take away sales from PS. Although.... If sony had the balls to lose money, they can drop ps5 to $349/$399 and increase their sales. I expect ps6 to be a minor spec upgrade to focus on handheld/console market similar to switch. Probably ps5 pro ish with better CPU/RAM/efficiency. And a 2027 release, and or late 2026. 

Nintendo were on their own about the console generation and timing since the Wii, and I think neither Microsoft or Sony are making their decisions about when to launch next gen on when Nintendo releases it. So I think Switch 2 launch is irrelevant for them in context of the time of releasing their hardware. 

Microsoft aren't really a threat anymore, and unlike 20 years ago, I don't think Sony will care much about them as well, when it comes to the time of releasing the next gen.

Also everyone talks how lately games and game development has gone from 1-2 years to 5-6-7 years, and has gotten so much expensive than before, that's also why we have 1/3 if not less of the games for the same period of time compared to any of the previous generations. And on top of that you are saying Sony will launch their next gen just 2 years after their PS5 Pro ? In a time where there are no games, and the development takes so much time, where we can't have a proper gen like before and are needed something like 10 years, for the generation to have finished form of console generation, in terms of games, both quantity and quality, you are saying PS6 will release just 2 years after the PS5 Pro ? When even back in 2016, this state of gaming was so much better and closer to what have been about the last couple of generations in terms of development and software, they will now risk it, and release almost barely any improvement (since even GPUs now have bare improvements over previous gens and they too started lifecycles of 2+ years, which were always around 1 years) ? Absolutely not. I am more inclined to believe and vote that the generation will prolong up until 2030 (something that is needed more than ever now or at least it would make sense more than ever), than PS6 releasing in 2026, and with that shorten the whole gen.

tbh that could also happen imo. We could have sony release in 2028/2029 with a hybrid handheld ps6 with a minor spec upgrade. Switch 2 which will likely be ps4- series s specced, will probably prolong the gen too with ps5 and pro being the most powerful consoles with the most market share, at least until a new xbox. I do expect them to release soon tho, because series is about to stop selling, and that would call for a new product. That's why a 2026 xbox could force sony to drop earlier than 2028. 



 

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