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Re:AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current gr... by thfuran on Sunday October 12, 2025 @11:21AM (#45558830)
>Consoles don't have that problem, because not providing perfect backwards compatibility for 20+ years of games isn't a dealbreaker there.

I'm not sure that's actually true for Sony. You can currently play several generations of games on the PS5, and I think losing that on PS6 would be a big deal to a lot of people.

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Re:AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current gr... by kevincox on Sunday October 12, 2025 @04:12PM (#45561462)
Maybe they can pull the old console trick of just including a copy of the old hardware inside the new console.

However I suspect that this isn't as cost and space effective as it used to be.

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