They could also probably just wait. Seeing as there are still PS4 games coming out.
Sony hasn't decided on PS6 release date or price yet, and may even "change business models" in response to the memory crisis
Submitted 3 days ago by iamthetot@piefed.ca to games@lemmy.world
https://www.eurogamer.net/ps6-release-plans-sony-business-model
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THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Their next announcement: “with our new pay-as-you-go GPU Server pricing model, you’ll never have to overpay for hardware you’re not using!”
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
AHHHHHHHH!!! 😵
Katana314@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I mean, they do that already. You can visibly see how popular PS+ Cloud is. I don’t have exact numbers, but I can see that they don’t do much to advertise it anymore, and that the whole industry saw Stadia and Luna fail.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
Just wait another 5, 10 years. Honestly. Games are crisp as fuck and devs are barely scratching modern hardware.
Hypx@piefed.social 3 days ago
They should just post-pone the PS6.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Change business models scares me. It sounds like the first steps towards exactly what the entire industry wants to become. No more hardware, just streaming devices where they own everything with the excuse of shortage manipulation. Good luck if it comes to that, it’s the first time I will say goodbye Sony since growing up with them from the beginning PS1 era.
Early 2000s i had everything, xbox, gamecube, ps2 and everything prior. Since then i only went with Sony getting a PS3, and PS4. No wii or wiiu or any xbox since the original. I did get a switch a few years after release, which was great as well, but idk about the switch 2 either. At this point its been PS5 and a gaming PC which I was lucky enough to build only a few years ago when prices came down for a short time and hope it lasts about 10 years. This will have to get me buy for the foreseeable future, and just hope the hardware doesnt fail first.
zecg@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Good luck selling any console after PS5, especially since “changing business models” undoubtedly means further enshittification. Unjailbroken consoles have always been for suckers, but now it’s getting really obvious.
Katana314@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Back around the PS4, I posited theories that we’d hit the “graphical plateau”, and while it was technically possible to make a stronger console, the returns were not great. I was wrong, and we got the PS5, but I don’t think I was wrong by much. It’s nicer to have 60fps and 1080p more reliably, but there’s really nothing urgent going past that - and if I understand right, there’s still a pretty large install base of PS4 users. It even runs some of the latest - did anyone notice games like LEGO Batman: LotDK and Jedi: Survivor somehow run on there?
I think there’s still plenty of ways to pull people’s interests, but it’s not going to be by the same big E3 reveal of some graphical leap. Not like we have E3 anymore anyway.
(I will admit this is a very anti-consumer move, but honestly, the most logical long-term strategy I could see them going for is returning to making large console-exclusive games)
dragontology@retrofed.com 2 days ago
I’m on the Xbox side, but I started with 2600/NES. I think 360 (PS3 on your side) was kind of the peak for graphics/gameplay. With XB1/PS4 we saw bigger and more expansive games, but I felt like something was lost on the way. And then with XSX/PS5 era, everything’s so pretty but I’m not really seeing those amazing gaming experiences.
The generations don’t perfectly translate… PS2 had GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas, I believe. Then GTA 5 came out (after GTA 4 which is beside the point) on PS3, then it was on PS4, and now it’s on PS5, they just keep adding onto it. But is GTA 5 really better than San Andreas? I mean, it’s prettier, and the three protagonists was cool, but IMO San Andreas was when the series peaked.
Same with Bethesda. Now, Bethesda games suck on PlayStation because PlayStation has some funny quirks, developers used to it can turn out some amazing experiences, but developers who aren’t turn out buggy messes, and Bethesda games are a buggy mess in the best of times. But again, their best games were in the 360/PS3 generation. Fallout 3 and Oblivion. Skyrim isn’t trash, but it’s very shallow. Fallout 4 is pretty, and it isn’t exacltly shallow, but I feel like something was lost from Fallout 3. Trying to turn it into a city sim, they half assed both sides of the game.
The Mass Effect series was on 360 and PS3 and is some of the best games ever. Andromeda was on XB1/PS4 and was a big step back — but it was pretty. (The best Mass Effect is the Legendary Trilogy, which is the original trilogy remastered and a lot of things fixed, was on XB1/PS4, but that’s an exception.)
dragontology@retrofed.com 2 days ago
Maybe the PS6 (and next Xbox) will be a $100 streaming box, and the games will be run on their servers, and you’ll pay a monthly fee to access the games, which gives you a break on the cost of the game, which you won’t own, you’ll just borrow a license to it.
And you’ll like it. /s
But really, on one hand it kinda sidesteps the issue of RAM/storage cost, but it’s also kinda shitty. It also begs the question of, why do I need their box at all? I should be able to pay for their streaming service and run that on my MacBook Air. I mean if they’re doing the heavy lifting, why do I need to buy their branded box at all? And PlayStation does not like to play well with others.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It also rules out all the customers who have shitty internet.
dragontology@retrofed.com 1 day ago
Which is fewer and fewer all the time. Internet to the last mile has been a thing for like, I dunno, 20-30 years or something. A lot of rural areas in the US have gigabit fiber and many have two or three options for 100Mbit or better.
And outside the US it’s usually better
As long as they can get enough, they’ll make money. I mean Netflix and other streaming services rule out people with slow Internet and they’re not struggling. It’s been a moot point for years.
I think the greater concern is if you can be kicked off the Net or excluded from it.
renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Yeah with RAM prices still inflated over 5x their usual price, good luck with that. $469! $469 for DDR5 2x16, which I paid $90 for the exact pair back in April 2025.
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I’ve owned PS 1-5 but this might be it for me. I can’t imagine the price tag on the PS6. I’ll just move to PC full time. The additional cost of PC parts will be just as painful but I’ll be able to use the PC for more than just PlayStation games.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The future business model will be “we’ll just keep selling people the same old shit because there’s no competition”.
Aielman15@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Reading this heading immediately following "Sony and Bandai Namco announce generative AI collaboration to find how the tech can “effectively contribute to realising a creator’s vision” must be one of the most unintentionally funny moments of my week.