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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...

PlayStation 5 will be more about the streaming

Sony's corporate investor day, where it explains its plans to shareholders and other investors, was light on juice, but interesting on the ground work going on for PlayStation 5. Of most interest from PlayStation's Jim Ryan's presentation is the focus on streaming to multiple devices, even though the company ignored the Vita on its pretty picture of compatible devices.

While streaming to every billion-selling device is good for the numbers, surely Sony needs a dedicated device to save people lugging controller, connector, battery pack, and other gadgets around. That's not optimal compared to what a HD/5G Vita 2 could offer.

Sony also bigs up PlayStation now, even though it only has 700,000 users, something else that used to work fine on the Vita until Sony pulled support for it. If that's part of the backward-compatible future, even a cheaper PlayStation Now portable box would do the trick.

And with backward compatibility finally being recognised as more than just a "nice-to-have", the Vita 2 could also come with that library of \PSP and Vita games, which would look better on a small screen than on a whopping 4K TV.

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