Sony: PlayStation 6 development “progressing as scheduled”
Sony has given its clearest update yet on its next console. During the company’s financial results presentation on Thursday 5 November, chief financial officer Lin Tao said development of the next PlayStation platform is “progressing as scheduled” and that Sony intends to make “solid progress” on it in the next fiscal year, which starts in April 2027. Investment in the new platform ramps up from that year, Tao said, with specifics to be announced “at an appropriate time in the future”. What Sony did not say matters too: there is still no release date, no price and no hardware specification for the PS6, and chief executive Hiroki Totoki has previously said the launch date itself is undecided. The same results showed PS5 shipments reaching 97.9 million units, with 2.6 million sold in the quarter to 30 September.
Sources: Video Games Chronicle — Sony earnings report, 5 Nov · KitGuru — PS6 development update, 5 Nov