Summary
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The PS6 SoC is reportedly targeting a late 2025 release.
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In the past, Sony entered the SoC retirement phase about two years before any console intended to incorporate the target chip went on sale.
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Therefore, this claim suggests that the PS6 could be released as early as late 2027.
The PlayStation 6 could hit the market as early as late 2027, as a new report from a well-known industry insider suggests. This alleged release window lines up with what Sony has previously said about how long this current generation of consoles will last.
As part of a consolidated financial report published in February 2024, Sony president and chief financial officer Hiroki Totoki stated that the PlayStation 5 2020 had already entered the “second half” of its life cycle at that time. The statement, which was later reiterated by Sony SVP Naomi Matsuoka, indicated that the PS6 is on track to hit the market no later than 2028.

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The possibility of an even earlier release has now been raised by NeoGAF user Kepler_L2, who previously correctly leaked a number of PS5 Pro details in addition to sharing many other hardware scoops. On January 17, Kepler_L2 reported that the PS6 is “design-complete” and currently in “pre-si[licon] validation,” indicating that Sony is currently in the process of digitally testing the console's system-on-chip to ensure it works as intended before moving on to creating its first physical prototypes. The initial iteration of the PS6 SoC is said to be code .—dubbed the A0, with its release slated for late 2025. In the past, Sony has phased out SoCs—the process of making test chips—about two years before commercializing such silicon. in mass-produced consoles.
The process node of the PS6 SoC is still unknown
If history repeats itself this time, the PS6 could be released at the end of 2027. In this case, the PS5 would end up with a similar lifespan to the PS4, which also hit the market seven years before its successor. The process node of the new generation console chip is still unknown. The PS5 SoC uses TSMC's N7 family of nodes, specifically the 7nm manufacturing process, while its PS5 Pro counterpart is based on the 6nm process from the same family. The PS6 is rumored to be based on AMD's UDNA architecture – the successor to RDNA4, which was previously codenamed RDNA5 – and is expected to introduce a 3nm die reduction. However, it remains unclear whether the 3nm node will be the only manufacturing process in this family.
The PS6 is fully designed in pre-si as well[licon] validation already, with A0 registration scheduled for later this year.
The PS6 could overtake the next generation Xbox console in the market
A potential PS6 launch in late 2027 suggests that Sony's next console could arrive before the Xbox Series X/S successor(s). Poorly redacted documents from Microsoft's legal battle with the FTC over its 2023 acquisition of Activision Blizzard have revealed that the Xbox maker is targeting a 2028 launch for its next console — or at least that was the plan as of 2022, when the leaked documents surfaced. In any case, if the A0 SoC enters the physical prototype development stage in late 2025, more PS6 hardware leaks could appear by early 2026.