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Sony can’t support a PS6 home and portable console warns ex-PlayStation boss

Summary by Metro News
The PS6 is rumoured have both home and handheld models that can run PS4 and PS5 video games but PlayStation's old boss is dubious.

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Former executive PlayStation Shawn Layden explains why two consoles together could become a problem for Sony.Indiscretions on a possible portable PS6 continue to chase, but according to Shawn Layden Sony should consider very carefully the idea of joining a new home console. The former president of Sony Interactive Entertainment America, who intervened in the Kiwi Talkz podcast, explained that PlayStation would historically have had several diffi…

Former PlayStation president Shawn Layden assessed the risks that Sony might have faced by simultaneously producing both a handheld and a home console during the PS6 era.

Experience has shown that Sony is unable to successfully market two different hardware platforms on the market at the same time, according to former Head of SIE Worldwide Studios, Shawn Layden...

Shawn Layden, former president of SIE Worldwide Studios, doesn't think it's okay to talk about PlayStation 6 and a new Sony laptop at the same time, as that didn't go well before.

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gamesradar broke the news on Tuesday, September 8, 2026.
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