Analysts say Sony's digital-only plan 'almost certainly guarantees that the PS6 won’t arrive until 2028…
- Sony plans to halt physical game production by January 2028
- Analysts say the announcement telegraphs that the PS6 will arrive in 2028
- It's predicted that the console won't have a disc drive
Following Sony's announcement that it will halt production of physical games within the next two years, analysts have determined that the next-gen PS6 console will launch in 2028.
According to Ampere analyst Piers Harding-Rolls, PlayStation's all-digital plan "telegraphs quite a lot of information about Sony’s plans for its next-generation console, the PlayStation 6," including a release window.
"We believe this almost certainly guarantees that the PS6 won’t arrive until 2028 at the earliest," he predicted, adding that the "current expectation is that the console will launch at the end of 2028."
Harding-Rolls also suggests that "at a minimum," the standard version of the PS6 won't have a physical media disc drive because Sony will be looking...
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