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It’s very hard to say what games PS6 will have at this point, not least because of the potential delay to its launch. Although games planned for PS6 are almost certainly already in development, most developers — Sony itself included — will be keeping their options open in terms of platform while they wait to see when the new console will arrive. Here’s an example: When Sony-owned developer Insomniac was hacked in 2023 its future development roadmap leaked, including proposed dates for Marvel’s Spider-Man 3 in 2028 and Marvel’s X-Men in 2030. Who knows if these dates remain accurate — a 2025 Ve

At last, here’s a question we can answer with a degree of certainty. It’s highly likely that the PS6 will be backward-compatible with PS5 games, and probably PS4 games, too. Like Microsoft, Sony has announced that it’s going to continue to work with chip supplier AMD on the processors for its future hardware. Reports suggest that the PS6 will use a next-gen Zen processor that’s compatible with the x86 architecture used in PS4 and PS5, making backward compatibility easy to implement. Backward compatibility has also become an expectation among players, who have become used to bringing their game

This is a whole separate topic, really, but it’s worth mentioning here. Sony is widely reported to be working on a handheld PlayStation to compete with Nintendo’s Switch 2 as well as the Steam Deck, Xbox Ally, and other PC handhelds. The key question about this device is its level of compatibility with the PlayStation catalog. Full PS4 compatibility would seem to be a given, and most reports suggest the handheld will be able to run PS5 games too — if not necessarily all of them, or at the same quality as PS5. In fact, some level of PS6 compatibility is even possible, because the handheld is ru