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    From Dumas Walker@42:17/1 to All on Wed Nov 12 09:13:55 2025
    Sony wants to extend the PS5 life cycle 'We believe that the PS5 is only in the middle of the journey and we are really planning to expand it even
    further' says CFO

    Date:
    Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:53:34 +0000

    FULL STORY

    Sony chief financial officer Lin Tao has said that the PlayStation 5 is currently in the middle of its life cycle, but the company aims to extend it.

    Speaking during the company's latest financial briefing , the CFO discussed Sony's future strategy as the PS5 celebrates its fifth anniversary, sharing that it wants to remain focused on the install base of the current-gen
    console.

    "Our view is that compared to conventional console lifecycles, looking at the PS4 lifecycle, it seems to be getting longer and longer," Tao said.
    "Especially the PS4, which was launched in 2013, and it's been over a decade since then, but there are many active users enjoying the console, and they're enjoying other consoles.

    "So from that perspective, we believe that the PS5 is only in the middle of
    the journey, and we are really planning to expand it even further."

    As for what this means in relation to "future launches and successors", Tao said she couldn't comment on that.

    Given it's been five years since the PS5 launched, it sounds like Sony wants
    to support the console until 2030, which could be around the time the PS6 is already on the market.

    Whether this means Sony plans to make changes to its hardware succession
    plans in favor of continuing current-gen support, we can't say, but long-running rumors have claimed that the PS6 will arrive between late 2027
    and early 2028 .

    In Sony's latest financial results for the first half of its fiscal year, the company reported that the PS5 has now sold 84.2 million lifetime units . New figures show that the console sold 3.9 million units during its last quarter ending September 30, 2025, putting the console less than 2 million units
    behind the PS4 in sales, which currently sits at 86 million lifetime units sold.

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    Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/gaming/playstation/sony-wants-to-extend-the-ps5-life -cycle-we-believe-that-the-ps5-is-only-in-the-middle-of-the-journey-and-we-are -really-planning-to-expand-it-even-further-says-cfo

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