Monday, January 20th 2025

PlayStation 6 Chipset Design Finalized Says Tipster, Predicts Console Launch in 2027
Noted technology tipster, Kepler L2, believes that the Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) engineering team has finalized the design of a PlayStation 6 (PS6) system-on-chip (SoC)—insider information was shared on the NeoGAF forum (a popular computer game discussion board) late last week. It would be natural to assume that Sony's gaming division is deep into the process of developing a follow-up to its PlayStation 5 home console, but Kepler L2's fresh revelation points to surprisingly advanced progress. Insider sources point to the PS6's chip design being: "complete and in pre-silicon validation already, with A0 tapeout scheduled for late this year."
Industry experts have analyzed PlayStation development cycles of days past—history has demonstrated a pattern of the A0 tapeout phase reaching completion around two years before the rollout of finalized products at retail. Kepler L2 reckons that this pattern will be repeated—indicating a possible launch of PlayStation by 2027. The rumored PS6 chipset has been linked to AMD's "gfx13" target—everyone's favorite Team Red tipster posits that Sony engineers are working with a "fork" of this next-gen "UDNA" graphics technology. The rumor mill has generated additional PS6 SoC-related internet chatter—last Friday, Chiphell alleged a possible adoption of Team Red's X3 V-cache technology.
Sources:
NeoGaf Thread, Wccftech, Metro UK, OC3D
Industry experts have analyzed PlayStation development cycles of days past—history has demonstrated a pattern of the A0 tapeout phase reaching completion around two years before the rollout of finalized products at retail. Kepler L2 reckons that this pattern will be repeated—indicating a possible launch of PlayStation by 2027. The rumored PS6 chipset has been linked to AMD's "gfx13" target—everyone's favorite Team Red tipster posits that Sony engineers are working with a "fork" of this next-gen "UDNA" graphics technology. The rumor mill has generated additional PS6 SoC-related internet chatter—last Friday, Chiphell alleged a possible adoption of Team Red's X3 V-cache technology.
18 Comments on PlayStation 6 Chipset Design Finalized Says Tipster, Predicts Console Launch in 2027
Granted, more power would be greatly appreciated, specially if the new consoles do support proper 4K without upscaling or other gimmicks.
what the industry really needs is the return to awesome gameplay, no more empty eye candy.
Now innovate gameplay, make it betterer, while doing pretty pictures, because lately its clearly been mostly the latter. Also, interactivity. I don't want to game in static paintings, I want dynamic stuff.
but i think even 3 years from now or 4 the machine would play games at 4k when it launches
as soon as newer games launches with newer engine i very much doubt it would run them natively
even with hardware by 3 years from now
Mediocre hardware that is saved by talented game developers that can wok with any hardware and create amazing graphics and games.