According to a job posting from Sony Interactive Entertainment, the PS6 could experience a radical change compared to the Japanese manufacturer’s previous consoles.
In any case, this is the result of speculation in specialist circles. By studying the Sony job offer in question, the Japanese giant could indicate that a profound architectural change could take place on the PS6.
The manufacturer Sony is already thinking about the architecture of the PS6
This job offer freshly published by Sony is for software system development. It asks the candidate to ensure that games and programs are compatible with different architectures. There is even mention of a “new architectural system”. Without ever mentioning the PS6, we could therefore imagine that the Japanese manufacturer’s future console will feature a CPU architecture different from other consoles. Specialists therefore speculate that it could abandon x86 for ARM.
Roughly speaking, ARM architecture is currently booming compared to x86. The first favors energy savings, calculation speed and stability, to the detriment of raw power, the prerogative of the second. However, ARM processors continue to develop and attract the favor of manufacturers. This is particularly the case for Apple for its Macs, and a priori for Microsoft regarding the next iteration of Xbox consoles like the Series 2. According to Microsoft, this would also offer “ the biggest technological leap ever seen in a console generation “. We’ll see how it fares against the PS6 in due time.
Sony could in any case follow this architectural trend when it comes to its famous PS6. In the past, we learned that the Japanese giant would like to make it backwards compatible with previous consoles. This new job offer once again illustrates this desire. But even if such a radical change is plausible, with new sets of fairly eloquent clues, all this is for the moment pure speculation. We will have to wait for official confirmation to be sure.