MP1st recently reported on Sony's plans for the PlayStation 6 console. The company is expected to continue improving its AI image upscaling technology, PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution), and use a faster SSD.
Sources told journalists that work on the hardware infrastructure for next-generation cloud streaming has been underway for approximately 3-4 years. PCIe Gen5 NVMe will be used for data storage, and MP1st suggests that the hypothetical PlayStation 6 will also use such drives.
Earlier, the use of Gen5 was suggested by well-known insider KeplerL2.
The publication provides comparative figures — new SSDs are twice as fast, which will allow for faster streaming of resources to local devices (consoles):
- PCIe Gen4 NVMe: sequential read speed of 7500 MB/s and sequential write speed of 7000 MB/s.
- PCIe Gen5 NVMe: read — 14,900 MB/s, write — 14,000 MB/s.
Further improvements to PSSR are expected. Journalists noted that the profile of one employee, who works on machine learning and computer vision at Sony, includes the entry: "Led key research underlying the frame interpolation pipeline for the next-generation PlayStation platform."
MP1st also suggests that the hypothetical "DualSense 2.0" will continue to use the SAVANT architecture, and engineers will further improve vibration.
Sources told MP1st that Sony is collaborating with a studio developing a next-gen game. It will be an immersive third-person horror game with shooter mechanics, allegedly created on the Unreal Engine 5. The developers and project name are currently unknown.
It seems that Sony will release some of its games not only on PlayStation 6 but also on PS5. MP1st came to this conclusion after examining information about studios working on creating "AAA assets" for both new and old consoles:
This is in the realm of "so obvious anyone could have guessed." […] It appears Sony has teams working on creating assets (both 2D and 3D) for the current generation (PS5) and the next (PS6). These assets are described as having AAA-level quality […] this could mean that Sony will continue to release cross-gen games in the next generation — much like PS5 games were released on PS4.
For now, these are all "insider reports" rather than official announcements, so journalists warned that Sony's plans might change.