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June 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 .  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 making the Blu-ray an accessory (like the PS5 Slim).  I prefer the idea of a dedicated dock on the PS6 that connects the next Portable to your entire PSN library, and they'd better make it work as an extra controller, but I'm sure there are practical benefits to the extra drive.   That should also boost sales of PS4 and PS5 physical games, especially on the second-hand market, as folk...

PSN Outage and what it could mean for NGP

Sony is planning a neat cloud-storage save system for its NGP and PS3. Hopefully you will still be able to save games locally, because if we get hit by Sony's current PSN outage in the future, all of sudden everyone goes back to a Level 1 Dwarf on whatever role-playing game you're in to.

The PSN incident (which Sony say will now see the store and services closed until Wednesday) and Amazon's similar outage highlight the perils of storage your stuff in the cloud. Amazon already offer a cloud storage service for your music. Apple and Google will do the same soon - what happens when that service becomes unavailable - despite these companies' promises of 99.95% uptime and multiple redundancies in the systems.

The current situation is annoying a lot of gamers, some of whom pay for the privilege, it is stopping people spending money with Sony on PSN and generating a lot of bad PR. That's being made worse by Sony refusing to say what is really going on and only hinting at a resolution - being upfront and honest would go some way to mitigating the rising anger.

Imagine if that happens to a generation of NGP or other gamers reliant on the cloud and online infrastructure, especially when even offline single player games need an online authentication system, there will be much more bad press and possibly legal investigations should that go wrong.

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