PS5 may be getting a console redesign in 2022
According to manufacturing sources close to Sony, the PS5 may be headed for a spec redesign that will make it less costly to reproduce.
As Sony’s flagship console in the new generation, and having only just launched in holiday 2020, one might think that the PlayStation 5 design was built to last on its current specs for the next couple foreseeable years at least. One might be wrong. According to sources familiar with Sony’s manufacturing and design, the tech giant may be gearing up with its partners to start putting a new PS5 design into production as early as 2022.
The reports on Sony’s alleged plans for a PS5 redesign come from Taiwanese outlet Digital Times (paywall) on May 6, 2021. According to Digital Times, suppliers at TSMC Taiwan are preparing to start production on a new spec model of the PS5 in 2022. Reportedly, as a spec update, this won’t be a functional upgrade. The capabilities of the new PS5 won’t change. Instead, Sony is allegedly going for a new “semi-customized” 6nm CPU that will be less costly in the manufacturing process than the current design, as noted by Kantan Games CEO Dr. Serkan Toto.
Taiwanese news outlet with spotty track record Digitimes: Sony aims for a PS5 redesign for 2Q or 3Q 2022: https://t.co/ASb1oWa3gM (paywall: and yes, I am subscribed)
— Dr. Serkan Toto / Kantan Games Inc. (@serkantoto) May 6, 2021
It says the next PS5 will come with a "new semi-customized" 6nm CPU from AMD.
5nm is said to be too costly.
Keeping a handle on its supplies and cost has seemingly been a major part of Sony’s ongoing strategy in the current console generation amid semiconductor shortages. Despite selling out 7.8 million PS5s since the console’s launch back in holiday 2020, the company also expressed concern over semiconductor shortages for at least the span of 2021 in its Q4 2020 financial report. With the console also now cleared for sale in mainland China in the near future, the new design may also be necessary to help Sony meet increased demand in production and lower costs.
Regardless, it would seem that, at least in near future, PS5 is going through its first notable redesign. Stay tuned as we follow this story for further updates and information leading up to the supposed production in 2022.
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replyTJ Denzer posted a new article, PS5 may be getting a console redesign in 2022
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Rumor of a redesigned PS5 to start production in 2022, primarily switching from a 5nm to a lower-cost 6nm CPU.
https://www.vg247.com/2021/05/06/new-ps5-hardware-redesign-entering-production-2022-report/-
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My feeling is that they were planning on a die shrink to 5nm but decided to do 6nm instead due to production concerns.
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Surely they’ll pass the savings down to the consumer!!
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Yeah make it look not absolutely ridiculously stupid and my chances of buying one increase dramatically
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That’s the joke.
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Um.. the PS5 current CPU is 7nm, not 5nm.
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They'll come in black and white stripes. The full black on is after the next upgrade which is gray.
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They should make it even bigger and just laugh
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You can if your yields at 7nm are ridiculously low and costly. Yeah basic logic says smaller means more chips per plater and thus cheaper but if each plater is much more expensive to manufacture and the chip failures are high enough, it can be cheaper.
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Bring on the PS5 - THICC
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Anything that gets a PS5 into my hands would be good. Daddy needs Demon's Souls and Returnal :(
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