PlayStation 5 lifespan has fans divided, and we can see why

It’s no real secret that the PlayStation 6 will likely drop in the next two years or so.

After all, the PlayStation 5 landed in 2020 and seven years is about the average for a PlayStation’s lifecycle.

The arrival of the PS6 doesn’t exactly mean that the PS5 is immediately going to ‘die out’ though.

Plenty of people have kept on playing their PlayStation 4s well into the PS5’s lifecycle.

Admittedly, the longer this generation has gone on, the more outdated the PS4 perhaps has begun to feel.

It’s still an impressive machine, there’s no denying that, but Sony did stop supporting it with new game releases a while back.

And, of course, from next year, PlayStation Plus will cease offering PlayStation 4 titles too.

It’ll be a similar situation when the PS6 drops.

Plenty of people will keep hold of their PS5s, playing last-gen versions where available until, eventually, that is no longer possible.

The question fans want answered is this: When will the PS5 ‘die out’ for good?

People have mixed ideas.

“I think it easily has at least another decade considering how long the PS4 has been out and still going strong,” wrote Reddit user AdxmBlxck.

“Look after it and it should be OK. But the way technology is advancing, a PS5 will be obsolete, unneeded and unwanted in 20 years,” added Wellidrivea190e.

“My PS5 died a couple weeks ago. Since the PS1 I've had them all since their launch and PS5 is the only PlayStation that's died, the rest work great,” countered fizz0o_2pointoh.

If you ask me, there are just so many parameters to measure a console’s longevity by.

I wouldn’t be surprised if two or three years after the PS6’s release, the PS5 was left behind in terms of new game releases.

But as a bit of kit that could one day in the future be considered a ‘retro’ console, there’s no reason why a PS5 shouldn’t survive if well looked after.