The IGN article I saw had some of these disclaimers, I still think it's neat.

Would be pretty awesome if old console tech was licensed to third party manufacturers to continue making them. As much as we love our older consoles, they will eventually die out.

On a side note, be honest. How many attempts did it take you to complete the very last Astro Bot challenge level? I hovered somewhere around the 20 mark.

The PS6 handheld seems real and may target 50% of PS5's power for rasterization (but advanced tech like FSR4+ and massively improved ray tracing capabilities might close the real world gap for RT apps). 

The home console according to both MLID and Kepler will be around 9070 XT level (for rasterization). Which would easily make it the smallest generational jump in PlayStation's history, but I'm not really surprised. Everything is getting outrageously expensive and Trump's tariffs are adding insult to injury.

Looks like the right thing to do is to keep manufacturing standard PS5 in large quantities even years after PS6 is launched. If most of your games will be mandated to run on a handheld weaker than PS5, there would be no reason to drop the PS5 too soon. Transitioning to PS6 will be very slow, but Sony wouldn't care as long as their combined active playerbase/spenders (on PS4, 5, and 6) remains huge.

That was done with the SEGA Genesis until before the SEGA Genesis mini came out. ATgames Genesis consoles had 80 games built in but it also accepted Genesis carts. Shame the sound sucked on them.  There is still a hopeless few SEGA fans (not me) wanting SEGA to make modern consoles again which is stupid to me. What they should do and been saying this for a while. Make FPGA consoles for Genesis/SMS/Saturn and DC. I don't have an Analog MT but I do like my Hyperkin Mega HD.  It's a good budget alt. 

I would say "RIP Bungie as we know it" but, I can't even say that because they're nothing the way they were. Completely expected outcome, and probably the only thing that was going to save the studio from completely self-imploding. Upper management needs to finally be replaced if this is the direction Sony is taking.

Bungie has been the way it is for almost 10 years (probably more), releasing Destiny 2 after only 3 years of Destiny 1 never made sense lol. Anyway, ex Bungie developers expressed in the past that complete takeover from Sony would be the only way to save Bungie so I hope Hermen and Nishino have what it takes.

Bungie layoffs are going to hurt more now tho.

Yeah, that was part of the agreement with Activision that Bungie make 3 Destiny games within like 10 years lol. It was a horrible agreement from the start considering the kind of game Destiny turned out to be. But that was well before Joe Staten's original plan was scrapped, as Destiny was supposed to be more Halo-like in nature rather than the MMO-lite it turned into lol but I digress.

Still a huge fall from grace as Bungie has already laid off something like 40% of their employees over the past couple of years and more will surely follow. Destiny 2's latest expansion ended up only being for the hardcore audience that's still there as player numbers were nowhere previous expansions, and Marathon is a huge question mark as to how it will perform in the long run. It's going to take a massive effort from Herman and Nishino to turn that ship around.

Pete Parson's should put his car collection as collateral

EDIT: Original agreement with Activision was actually 4 Destiny games within 10 years. Good lord lol

Sony paid way more than Bungie was worth.
Bungie proceeds to do very bad by itself.

Of course they will take control of it, they are paying a lot to let them struggle like that.

If Sony are making money off D2, if Marathon catches an audience and Gummy Bears is good, then I think the investment would've been fine.

But it's def taking longer for the investment to pay dividends here. At the end of the day, Bungie being an internal studio is only a good thing. I know there were reports of the teh team trying to push for some SP games, so maybe those will get off the ground finally.