It doesn’t look like Sony is planning a name change for their next console, as they register trademarks for PS6, PS7, PS8, PS9, and PS10.
For Sony, though, there is no question. As long as their consoles continue to be as successful as they are it’d be madness to call their next one anything other thanAnd now they can, without fear of legal complication, as they’ve just registered the names PlayStation 6 through 10 in Japan, to make sure no one else can ever use them.
This doesn’t mean the PlayStation 6 is imminent, as Sony has a long history of registering new console names long before they use them., they registered PlayStation 5 in 2006 and it didn’t come out until 2020 – so these new trademarks don’t mean a surprise early release. These are obviously only very rough calculations but assuming a seven year gap between the release of each console then the PlayStation 6 will be out in 2027.by Microsoft in the recent FC court case and indeed you’d expect a year or two to be added to the usual length of a generation, given the supply problems at the start of this one.
Using 2028 as the launch date for the PlayStation 6 you can then expect to see the PlayStation 7 in 2035, the PlayStation 8 in 2042, the PlayStation 9 in 2049, and the PlayStation 10 in the space year 2056.
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