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What are you planning to buy PS6 or PS6 Portable ?

What will you buy ?

  • PS6

    Votes: 92 28.8%

  • PS6 Portable

    Votes: 26 8.1%

  • Both PS6 and PS6 Portable

    Votes: 58 18.1%

  • PS6 and eventually PS Portable

    Votes: 21 6.6%

  • PS6 Portable and eventually PS6

    Votes: 6 1.9%

  • other (explain)

    Votes: 12 3.8%

  • none

    Votes: 105 32.8%
  • Total voters
    320
Assuming its dockable, the portable. I play exclusives only and the kids love the Switch 2 since they can play it anywhere and fight over it everywhere.
 
Depends on what they're doing with the PC ports.

If they pull the ports I'll get PS6, or wait for PS6 Pro if the first couple years are full of cross gen titles.

If they keep the ports I'll settle with PC, maybe get a Steam Deck 2.
 
I need to see Sony put some effort into bringing their IPs to it - no remasters - or it's not gonna be worth the money. I'm even less likely to buy one if it does end up being two bespoke SKUs and not a hybrid console. I don't want to have to choose upfront whether I want to play stuff on a TV or portably and I'm sure as hell not buying both.
 
Fess said:
Depends on what they're doing with the PC ports.

If they pull the ports I'll get PS6, or wait for PS6 Pro if the first couple years are full of cross gen titles.

If they keep the ports I'll settle with PC, maybe get a Steam Deck 2.
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If the Portable really is just below a base PS5, and there's a parity requirement. I don't see why the entire generation wouldn't be cross play. There are something like 86 Million PS5s out there right now. Unless there's some gimmick with the hardware I can't see a reason to not keep supporting the PS5.

Generations are dead, hopefully you've chosen wisely where to have your library. Switching means walking away, or spending a lot.
 
bumpkin said:
I need to see Sony put some effort into bringing their IPs to it - no remasters - or it's not gonna be worth the money. I'm even less likely to buy one if it does end up being two bespoke SKUs and not a hybrid console. I don't want to have to choose upfront whether I want to play stuff on a TV or portably and I'm sure as hell not buying both.
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I imagine there will be a optional dock available.
 
SScorpio said:
If the Portable really is just below a base PS5, and there's a parity requirement. I don't see why the entire generation wouldn't be cross play. There are something like 86 Million PS5s out there right now. Unless there's some gimmick with the hardware I can't see a reason to not keep supporting the PS5.

Generations are dead, hopefully you've chosen wisely where to have your library. Switching means walking away, or spending a lot.
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What a boring generation shift that would be. Especially if their PC ports are already there doing what next gen will do.
 
I will probably buy both but definitely the PS6 at launch for sure. I'm a sucker for consoles even though I game mostly on PC nowadays. They got me for $700 when the pro launched.
 
saintjules said:
It will be Holiday 2027 most likely. Why do people think 2030? That would be 10 years since the launch of the PS5. Sony would not be without new hardware for that long. The RAM issues that are happening should not be the determining factor.

Also people should start saving their money now. You have basically 2 years if you're an early adopter to get potential funds for this.
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Well if its earlier, then the best and most practical dates are late 2028 November or December around Christmas season, or early 2029 Summer June.
 
A standalone VCR shaped console seems so quaint. Wild how rapidly perception changes. Living room is dead yall. Sony should be focused on portable or a young persons desk. PS5 fits neither places. I think to preorder a PS6 you have to be cosigning the Sony output for PS5. I'm not sure who that audience is. It's like a mix of pro gamers, streamers and nobody all at the same time. They're having a bit of an identity crisis after going through this and solving it spectacularly on PS4. Now they have to climb that hill all over again with much higher stakes because of economic conditions.
 
asdasdasdbb said:
Or treat it like the Pro console it is.
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You think the PS5 -> PS5 Pro or PS5 to PS6 performance delta will be bigger? I mean maybe you turn the FSR up one notch and a setting or two. You're already maxing all the traditionally rendered stuff, so we're just talking RT and whatnot.
 
Honestly, not sure if I'll be getting the next gen PlayStation, and I've owned every single PlayStation console since the PS1 days. I think I'll just stick to my Switch 2 + PC combo.
 
Maybe both. But that depends on how I can play my games as I tend to still prefer retail over downloads. Hopefully there will be a solution to playing the retail games on the portable device? If thats not possible I may skip the portable PS6 and will use a portable PC (Zen 6 and RDNA5).
 
Only one I could maybe see getting at some point is the PS6 portable, but that's entirely dependent on its horsepower vs other options, and if Sony can put together better emulation tools for their back catalog than I can get with whatever will be the next Steam Deck.

I just don't have any investment in buying another stationary box that plays most of the same games my PC can do better. Only bought a PS5 early on because I thought their first + second party output would mirror the PS4 in variety/quality, but it didn't. Even if it was exclusive, I just haven't bought many Sony published games this gen.
 
I will buy both PS6 and PS6 portable. But I think I may end up also buying the Steam Deck 2 when it comes out in 2029 or 2030. At that point I will decide which one between the portable and the deck 2 to keep but I think the Deck 2 will be my main portable device
 
happy w/ pc + switch
happy to add ps6 if it doesnt commit too many sins:
  • no exclusives
  • bunch of cross-gen
  • yet another amd x86 apu w/ no secret sauce
  • no disc drive
 
simpatico said:
You think the PS5 -> PS5 Pro or PS5 to PS6 performance delta will be bigger? I mean maybe you turn the FSR up one notch and a setting or two. You're already maxing all the traditionally rendered stuff, so we're just talking RT and whatnot.
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With the rumored PS6 only having a 160-bit bus and possibly much lower power consumption... not only is it not going to be a generational upgrade, the GPU won't be much better than the PS5 Pro.

But with the much better CPU, better feature set, and probably better Pisser, it's a much more well rounded system.

You almost have to think of it as what the PS5 Pro should have been. But you're not going to get any exclusive games or much reason to buy it unless you must have 60 fps (or just feel like upgrading)
 
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I'll get both with every intention of playing the console on my nice living room setup but will probably spend 90% of my game time on the handheld as I have 3 little kids who take over the room most of the time.
 
Neither until I have more information about these products.

Such as price, release date, games, how they intergrate with one another and with older games in the Playstation library.
 
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asdasdasdbb said:
With the rumored PS6 only having a 160-bit bus and possibly much lower power consumption... not only is it not going to be a generational upgrade, the GPU won't be much better than the PS5 Pro.

But with the much better CPU, better feature set, and probably better Pisser, it's a much more well rounded system.

You almost have to think of it as what the PS5 Pro should have been. But you're not going to get any exclusive games or much reason to buy it unless you must have 60 fps (or just feel like upgrading)
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So the Pro owner will be asked to spend $1,000 on a QoL sidegrade.
 
All depends on "exclusive" games. If not, I'm going to stay on PC as my main platform with Switch 2 for Nintendo exclusives.
 
None unless sony makes it worth the while.

If its too expensive and not offering much more than I see no reason instead of just keeping my PC upgraded
 
I have absolutely no interest in a portable PS6, or Steam Deck, or any of this.

Fess said:
Depends on what they're doing with the PC ports.

If they pull the ports I'll get PS6, or wait for PS6 Pro if the first couple years are full of cross gen titles.

If they keep the ports I'll settle with PC, maybe get a Steam Deck 2.
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huh, nu-sony shills keep telling me the pc ports have no impact whatsoever on the performance of the console
 
If the Xbox Steam Machine ends up surfacing at a fair price, I don't see myself ever buying another PlayStation. I assume the PlayStation library will be forced to move to PC eventually, anyway.
 
SScorpio said:
If the Portable really is just below a base PS5, and there's a parity requirement. I don't see why the entire generation wouldn't be cross play. There are something like 86 Million PS5s out there right now. Unless there's some gimmick with the hardware I can't see a reason to not keep supporting the PS5.

Generations are dead, hopefully you've chosen wisely where to have your library. Switching means walking away, or spending a lot.
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The PS6 will probably be the machine for ray tracing and path tracing features but I said the PS5 is here to stay and console upgrades will feel more like gpu upgrades. You can probably count on one hand or maybe two the amount of first party exclusives that were just released on PS5 no pc or ps4.
 
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diffusionx said:
huh, nu-sony shills keep telling me the pc ports have no impact whatsoever on the performance of the console
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Yeah I've heard that too. But I know there is an impact from ports just by looking at my own household. I built a couch PC and since then my PC is my PS5. It's not quite the hard swap as Xbox but I have almost all new Sony games on PC now and I can use the same controller.
 
Griffon said:
After having experienced the Steam Deck, I do not want a closed portable system ever again.
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The only closed ones for me are Nintendo's for obvious reasons such as the exclusives, but also how fluid it works to use the joycons with your friends. Incredible party machine as the four joycons work perfectly and are easy as heck to transport. You can break apart two joined controllers into four and sync them all in a heartbeat.

But a Sony console feels mostly just restricted and nothing more than "hey, now you can play PS games with worse graphics everywhere!" Steam Deck at least offers a lot of freedom with it's relatively poor graphics(compared to a PC).
 
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