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July Update: PlayStation 6 and PlayStation Portable future visions

 The recent PlayStation video about the "simulated" technology in development, discussed between AMD and Sony engineers that will power the PlayStation 6 was interesting from a geek point of view. But from a gameplay perspective, there is - IMO - no need for a PlayStation 6 for another few years. Especially with the limp Xbox is-it-isn't-it launch .  July 2026 Update : Sony managed a cannon-fire sized self-inflicted injury by announcing the end of physical releases across the end of the PS5 era and the launch of the PS6. Due to lack of sales (only 7 titles have passed the 100,000 mark in the last year) and economics, it still doesn't matter to PlayStation owners, collectors are stores, who can now only sell digital codes in a box.  June 2026 Update : The latest snippet of gossip for Sony's next-gen systems is a modular/external drive that will connect to both devices. Allowing installation on the portable of physical games, and reducing the cost of the PS6 by ma...

Japan Finally Gets PSN Store Back This Week

Due to lots of legal/regulatory pressure, Japan will only get its PSN store back in a couple of days on July 6. The longest of the PSN outages was due to extra testing for the service, which presumably is now Fort Knox-like in protection.

Given that Japan is Sony's biggest PSP market, it (and other games devs) will have felt the most impact from the loss of service and there must be a pretty huge queue of new content ready to go up. Add in the demand for Japan's Welcome Back package and expect a fair amount of the same bedlam we got over here.

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