Following the official reveal of the PlayStation 5 Pro, Reuters is reporting that AMD, which PlayStation partnered with on the PlayStation 5 and PS5 Pro, will also be working on the next PlayStation console. According to Reuters, AMD beat out Broadcom Intel and others through a competitive bidding process.
One of the big reasons PlayStation decided to stay with AMD and not contract another company was so they can have backwards compatibility with PS5.
“Moving from AMD, which made the PlayStation 5 chip, to Intel would have risked backwards compatibility, which was a subject of discussion between Intel and Sony engineers and executives,” the publication claims.
“Ensuring backward compatibility with prior versions of the PlayStation would have been costly and taken engineering resources. Allowing PlayStation users to play games they have purchased for older systems is a feature Sony often includes in a next-generation system.”
Reuters reports that the potential deal between Sony and Intel fell through over a dispute from how much profit Intel was going to take from each chip sold.
Responding to the report, an Intel spokesperson said: “We strongly disagree with this characterization but are not going to comment about any current or potential customer conversations. We have a very healthy customer pipeline across both our product and foundry business, and we are squarely focused on innovating to meet their needs.”
Documents published as part of the court battle over Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition says that Sony doesn’t expect to launch its next console until 2028 at the earliest.