PlayStation 6 likely to launch in 2028, says former Sony exec

Forward-looking: Now that the PlayStation 5 Pro is here, attention is turning toward Sony's next generation of its console, the PlayStation 6. There's been plenty of speculation about when it will arrive, and according to Shuhei Yoshida, the former Sony exec who was head of SIE Worldwide Studios, we could be waiting until 2028. Yoshida worked at Sony for 38 years, 31 of which were spent at PlayStation. After leaving the company on January 15, 2025, he gave a lengthy interview to GamesBeat. Among the topics covered was console cycles. The publication notes that during his tenure at PlayStation, the gap between console launches was around five or six years, but it's getting longer. The PlayStation 4 was released in November 2013. And while the PlayStation 4 Pro launched in 2016, the PlayStation 5 didn't get here until November 2020, seven years after its predecessor. For comparison, there were only five years between the original PlayStation (1995) and PS2 (2000). The PS3 launched six ... Read full article.