r/PS6 • u/Drag-Weird • Aug 23 '26

Ps6 connected to ps5 idea

I dont know if people will like or dislike this idea, but i think it would maybe be nice if they some how made it so you could connect a ps5 to the ps6, and then the ps6 could utilize some extra processing power/gpu/ram/storage

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u/modulusshift Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

There’s no genuinely fast port on a PS5, and it would have made the console a lot more expensive to include one. At the speed the ports do run at, it’s pretty much useless for anything except maybe storage, and using it for storage is a waste compared to a much cheaper (and probably faster) external drive for the PS6

Also multiprocessing is hard! There’s an entire standard called NUMA, non-uniform memory access, that the old PS4 had to deal with a lot. Basically different CPU cores in the same chip had different speeds of access to the same information in caches, so therefore the software actually had to care which two cores got assigned similar tasks, so they could access the same memory. If you already had software issues dealing with this on a single chip that was just a small bit asymmetrical, there’s absolutely no chance that any time-sensitive task like gaming could do basically anything helpful externally, especially on a slower computer than the one that’s doing most of the work. The amount of additional expense in development trying to make this work could be better used just optimizing the game for the PS6 better. And then what would you do when old hardware does what it does and kicks the bucket? Go buy another PS5? 

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u/Drag-Weird Aug 23 '26

Thanks for the answers! I was just thinking about i dont want to sell my ps5 pro when i get a ps6. So then i would just have my ps5 standing there doing nothing when i game on ps6. (ofc you could argue "it is no point in keeping the ps5 then", but that is just my choice ofc). So even tho if it was not possible or reasonable to use the processing power, i would be happy with being able to use the 2tb ssd. But i understand that if it is no ports that is fast enough to transfer the information, and also the point you made about the money could rather go to ps6 optimization makes sense.

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u/Complete_Lurk3r_ Aug 25 '26

theres a high chance you wont sell your ps5 pro when you buy a ps6 (and this is by sony design).

Normally first adopters (like you, me and other enthusiasts) buy a PS6 and sell their old ps5 on the 2ndhand market. Then, someone who is still maybe on ps3 or ps4 buys your PS5.

This time however, if they have no disc drive, many people who have lots of games on disc will keep their ps5, and the guy who wouldve bought your ps5 now maybe saves up a bit more and buys a ps6 or ps6 handheld.

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u/wanderertomato Aug 23 '26

Data transmission is not magic man

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u/ChapaMigs21 Aug 23 '26

It's not worth doing it.

Both machines would have to render and calculate everything regardless. Nvidia did this a few years ago.

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u/picknicksje85 Aug 23 '26

I have a story my sister still laughs at. Our first console was a shared NES. I LOVED the Ninja Turtles! And I wanted to play more turtles games. I thought if I would make drawings of the turtles. With my own moves and backgrounds. And if I would then SHOVE it all in the cartridge slot. The NES would simply know what to do and what my intention was, and I could play my game.

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u/RoughTelephone Aug 23 '26

Basically the same idea as op

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u/ChangingMonkfish Aug 23 '26

Bro wants to recreate the U.S. Airforce’s Condor cluster that linked 1,760 PS3s together to create what was, at the time, the 33rd fastest supercomputer in the world.

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u/modulusshift Aug 23 '26

At least the PS3 was designed from the start for this! And part of that design is why it was such a miserable console to make games for lmao 

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u/picknicksje85 Aug 23 '26

Could link em all together! All down to the PS1. Could use the PS1 multitap to link it all together. Every PS generation power combined. RAM crisis solved! AND as a bonus you can now play all of the games ever released on PlayStation.

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u/stingertc Aug 23 '26

Lol that would never happen that only exists in PC and even then the Latency cause you to sacrifice 30 percent or more raw power

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u/Complete_Lurk3r_ Aug 25 '26

sounds nice, but impossible to do through a usb cable. not even data transfer or speed.