What is time? It feels like PlayStation 5 was released yesterday, but it’s actually more than five years old . This year will see its sixth birthday, which is usually when we can expect to start hearing more about a console’s successor. Seven years is a typical console generation lifespan; no PlayStation has ever been released more than seven years after its predecessor, and the eight-year gaps between Switch and Switch 2, or Xbox 360 and Xbox One, are the longest ever for a home console. (Both pale next to the Game Boy’s incredible 12-year run, though.) If it doesn’t feel like it’s time to start thinking about the PS6 yet, it’s because lengthening game development times have slowed the pace of new releases for PS5, because initial take-up of the console was slowed by supply issues, and because the Covid-19 pandemic distorted everyone’s sense of time. But the time is upon us all the same. As it happens, there are reasons why the PS5 could keep going for a few years yet.…