Sony’s tech wizard Mark Cerny has teased a number of new video game graphics features in a new video published to the official PlayStation YouTube channel titled ‘From Project Amethyst to the Future of Play: AMD and Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Shared Vision.’ Almost all of the near nine minute chat is about advances in graphics technology Sony and AMD have been working on over the past two years.
But then, at the end of the video, a rather innocuous line from Cerny himself dares to mention a "future console" coming in "a few years' time." And that's all it has taken to spark a growing wave of speculation about when Sony will release the inevitable PlayStation 6.
Here’s the line in question:
"Overall, it's of course still very early days for these technologies, they only exist in simulation right now. But the results are quite promising and I'm really excited about bringing them to a future console in a few years' time."
A future console in a few years' time? Most are taking that to suggest Sony plans to release the PS6 late 2028.
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