What should Sony do for the next Playstation?

[EricHiggin]

curl-6 said:

EricHiggin said:

It does if you keep the hardware at a reasonably low cost. Which would be easy to do if the handheld and console shared internal hardware.

You may have to wait for many PS5 gamers to skip PS6 and upgrade to PS7 in this case, but at that time you'll still have great sales between both PS6 and PS7 and you'll have far easier development for those 2 systems, since there's really only 2 pieces of hardware to dev for even though there's 4 retail systems on shelves.

This should certainly help when it comes to game development and getting games out sooner than later, which is becoming more and more of a problem, along with rising software prices.

PS6 is already going to be a bit of a different business model to begin with based on the leaks so far. A handheld and home console, that shares a library.

The only way I see PS6 selling well overall based on the leaks, is if the PS6 handheld is heavily subsidized (assuming there's no PS6 Lite), or if they also launch a PS6 Lite for as cheap as possible.

If the PS6 Lite doesn't exist, or the handheld isn't cheap enough, plenty of PS5 gamers won't transition because the PS6 main console will be too expensive. PS4 gamers still won't transition to PS6. Plenty of new consumers won't buy into PS6 because they won't be able to afford to. This would be a bad situation for SNY.

They're definitely in a pickle with PS6, but I'm not convinced a stopgap solution is the answer. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

With all the gamers I've seen that say they're (totally) ok with PS5 lasting until 2030, I personally think SNY should launch the PS6 handheld asap, but as a part of 9th gen, and subsidize it so it's $499 or less. Either call it something unique, while making the marketing super clear that it plays PS5 and PS4 games (and also possibly future PS6 games), or call it a PS5 and make it clear it's part of the PS5 ecosystem. Extend 9th gen to 3032 if need be because of this.

Heck if they were worried about the hardcore high end hardware gamers not wanting to wait that long for new tech, then launch the main PS6 as a new PS5 Pro (while dropping the old PS5 Pro). This should easily extend 9th gen until 2032.

I don't think SNY is going to do this though, even though I totally think it would work.