It took the two biggest names in console gaming nearly a decade, but Sony and Microsoft Finally Seem to Be Learning The Lesson Nintendo Taught Them Ages ago. Handheds are in season, and it seems Sony Imagines its next big release will be a full-on portable PlayStation 5 (No, Not that oneThe Real Question is what it might be called, and if it will be released along with a willle new console generation, namely the playstation 6.
We have doubts Sony will suggest a Necessarily Lower-Power Handheld Console will be a sequel to the playstation 5 and-competed 5 and-nar More-Powerful PS5 ProIt may indicate Sony is antiicipating a dual-resile, with one console focused on performance and the other on portability. Eather Way, The Little Flecks of Info Falling Out the Grinding Rumor Mill Sugged This upcoming console could be the side-grade we’ve ben hoping for. A mobile playstation that can access your complete library of digital titles in a device you can slip into your backpack.
Late Last Year, Reports from Bloomberg Claimed Sony was hard at work on a handhed Gaming device. There are still no details beyond the promise that it could be capable of playing playstation 5 games. That’s enough to get the thoughts Racing, even thoughts there’s still no hint of when we could see this handhedhed in action, or your it will sit along with a play Official Xbox Handheld, The Company is Reportedly Working with asus to create one Slated for this year. Hell, asus’ republic of gamers brand and xbox have even added fuel to the rumor fires with cheeky teaser videos,
Sony has ben much more reserved. The company released the playstation 5 pro late last year, which sported a Fair Number of Hardware Updates Beyond the much-touted Enhancements to the GPUAs for the PS6, Known Leaker Keplerl2 on the Neogaf Forums Claimed The “PS6 Design is complete” and further hinted the console could be run on next-gene amd hardware. Some PlayStation Diehards are bettering on a 2027 release date. Sony Normally Works on a 6 to 7-Year Console Cycle, With the PlayStation 5 Debuting in 2020. Still, there’s little left to a release date but pure speculation.
Reuters Reported Last year that Sony is sticking with amd for the playstation 6 chip. It sugges that the console may be compatible in some way with ps5 games. Depending on the when it launches, the new cpu in a playstation 6 could be running on the modern zen 5 architecture or, according to the few leaks we have, on the supposed invital zen 6, Plus the Chipmaker’s’ Next-Gen Graphics Architecture. The current version of the PS5 and PS5 Pro are running on modified zen 2 architecture, but without more specification we can only goesstimate the PS6’s performance.
Sony sticking with amd for the PS6 (and any handhed version) is practically a given. Lead Playstation Designer Mark CERNY said the company Planned to introduce fidelity fx super resolutionOr FSR 4, to the playstation in the future. AMD’s Updated Upscaling Technology takes a frame rendered at a lower resolution and uses ai algorithms to upscale it to a higher resolution, Whilele Keeping The Framerate of the Original Rendering. FSR 4 Introduced a Whole Host of New Capability that Increase The Clarity and Detail of UPSCALED Images, and it’s alredy a Winner on the latest amd graphics cards, the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 xt. UPSCALING BE EVEN More of a Boon on a Handhed, Especially when Trying to Produce Console-Like-Like, Consistent Performance that Most PlayStation Gamers Expect.
Leaker keplerl2 also hinted That the next console would have “Shader binary compatibility.” That just means games would “just work” on this new handheld. Otherwise, The Leaker Claimed It will have a 3nm chip running at 15w tdp, or thermal design power. Essentially, that means the chip will be running at relatively low wattages, equivalent to the max of what a Steam Deck can produce. AMD is already the main enabler of handhead gaming pcs, like the step and asus rog ally x. The chipmaker has also announced its amd ryzen z2 go and ryzen z2 extrame for this year for this year’s slate of handhelled cpus. The Z2 Extreme is meant to power top-end devices like the upcoming Lenovo Legion Go 2.
Until we know more about the playstation 6’s performance, it’s hard to speech about pricing. A portable playstation would need to be more powerful than a $ 450 switch 2. Nintendo’s upcoming handhed Is equivalent in performance to somevehere between a playstation 4 and playstation 4 pro. The switch 2 is Making use of nvidia’s dlss UPSCAler to Help Achieve 4K Resolution in Some Games. If Sony Makes Use of UPSCALIGH AMD, it may alredy have all the pieces in place to offer us a handhedhead and far sooner than 2027. The way gaming is gaming, as consolesoleslesles benefits more and more PORHAPS VEMAY NOTABLE, PORHAPS WERHAPS even need a traditional playstation 6 at all.