Forget the PlayStation 5, Sony seems to have much more ambitious projects in his sleeve …
Over the past week, the Japanese tech giant has recorded five ridiculous new brands, all destined for PlayStation consoles.
Sony Interactive Entertainment has filed applications for five other PlayStation family consoles, including PS6, PS7, PS8, PS9 and PS10 (thank you Gematsu).
Since we are still waiting for the official confirmation of the release date of the PlayStation 5, it is a rather bold gesture from Sony – and which clearly shows that the company is convinced that there is life in the PlayStation brand for years and years to come!
When a company registers a trademark, it does not necessarily mean that it will be officially linked to a product in the future. In most cases, it is simply a question of protecting the name so that another brand or manufacturer can no longer intervene and take it in the meantime.
According to GamesIndustry.biz, this is not the first time that Sony has done it, because the company has a long history in the durability of its equipment.
“In 2006, the year of the release of the PlayStation 3, the holder of the platform was a registered trademark of PlayStation 4 and 5 – which is fun when you consider that the company refused to call him until the beginning of this month, “he writes. James Batchelor on the site.
It’s worth noting that if current trends are holding and we’re seeing each console generation up to the seventh anniversary of the PlayStation 10, we will not see the launch of the console until 2055.
At this point, we do not know what a console game would look like (or if it would remain a planet on which it would be possible to play).
A long time ago, when Sony was in a particularly turbulent phase, an ad on PlayStation 2 suggested that the PlayStation 9 would look like a small sphere of glass that you would have in your hands to activate the games at the same time. # 39; inside.
These trademark registrations are an interesting distraction because we see Sony slow down to make us more ads on the PlayStation 5 – but you can bet we ‘re I will bring you all the news on the console as soon as they are revealed.