PS6: Sony would prepare a nomadic console capable of reading the PS5 games native
According to the indiscretions circulating, Sony is working on a portable version of its next generation of console, capable of performing the games of the PS5 without requiring technical adaptation. Clearly, install a PS5 game on this PS6 Nomad would come back to the same as launching it on the living room console. A daring bet, which aims to erase the boundaries between mobility and calculation power.
PS6 “Portable”: Sony’s response to Switch 2 and Steam Deck?
The PlayStation Portal, the first recent infursion of Sony in the nomadic game, remains confined to local streaming from a PS5. A limited approach, far from a real autonomous portable console, that rumor around the portable PS6 could deeply redefine. © Numériques
If the portable PS6 actually inherits from the PS5 library without adjustment on the part of the developers, the question of performance is inevitably asking. According to Leaker Keplerl2, compatibility would involve management of binary shaders identical to that of the PS5, allowing to launch games without recompilation. But this method could limit optimizations specific to portable architecture, with the consequence of a potential impact on graphic rendering or fluidity.
Unsurprisingly, the experience would not be comparable to that of a living room PS5. But to what extent will it be? Enough to seduce an audience accustomed to a certain technical requirement? The answer will depend on the compromise that Sony will manage to establish between portability and power, a complex balance on which several competitors have already encountered.
The performance would be greater than those of the Xbox Series S, but lower than those of the PS5.
However, this strategy remains in the state of rumor. Sony did not communicate either confirmation or calendar. PlayStation 6 itself is not expected for several years. But these echoes reinforce the idea of a return of the brand to the market of nomadic consoles, with a clearly displayed ambition: to offer a credible alternative to the Steam deck,, ROG Ally And Switch 2.
For the time being, these elements are still speculation. But they draw the contours of a machine that could reposition Sony in the nomadic game segment. A territory that the brand explores timidly with PlayStation Portalfocused on local streaming, but which remains far from an autonomous portable console.
Sony PlayStation Portal
Launch price 219 €
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