Sony has yet to officially announce the PlayStation 6, let alone the handheld version that has been rumored for a long time. However, as AMD’s latest Zen 6 architecture information has been exposed one after another, rumors about the “PS6 handheld console” have heated up again. According to the latest Linux core patch exposure, the AMD Zen 6 architecture has a new low-power core (LP Core) design for the first time. The outside world believes that this configuration that balances performance and power consumption is very suitable for the needs of handheld gaming devices, and has also attracted attention again to the previously leaked PS6 handheld specifications.
Is the transmission performance expected to surpass that of current handheld consoles? !
According to news that has leaked many times before, the rumored PS6 handheld console will use AMD Zen 6 CPU and RDNA 5 GPU, and will be backward compatible with PS5 and PS4 games as its main selling point. Although the overall performance is not expected to be as good as the full version of the PS6 console, news broke that its game performance is expected to surpass many Windows handheld consoles currently on the market, including competing products such as ROG Ally X, and can even more efficiently execute PS5 games optimized for handheld consoles. Of course, these specifications are still in the leakage and speculation stage, and neither Sony nor AMD have officially confirmed them.
Sony’s attitude has begun to loosen, and players’ expectations are getting higher and higher!
Interestingly, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Hideaki Nishino said in a recent media interview that PlayStation hardware will develop in “different forms and different usage scenarios” in the future, hoping that players can enjoy PlayStation games in more places. Although he did not directly admit the existence of PS6 handheld console, it is generally believed that this statement once again adds credibility to relevant rumors, and also makes many players believe that Sony is indeed planning a new generation of handheld devices.
The only thing missing now is a word from Sony
In recent months, there has been almost one wave of relevant news, from AMD Zen 6 architecture and hardware specifications to Sony executives publicly discussing the direction of handheld consoles. But so far, there is still no official decision on all the content. It can only be said that what players are most looking forward to now is not the next news, but when Sony is willing to officially say: “Yes, we are really making a PS6 handheld console.”