I was in seventh grade when the PlayStation 5 was released, and it’s remarkable how quickly time has passed. Now, discussions are already underway about the potential launch of the PS6 around 2026 or 2027.
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I was 35 years old when the PS5 was released.
Wow, it really puts time into perspective when you mention being in seventh grade at the PS5’s launch—I was already out of college and working my first job! It’s wild to think the PS6 chatter is starting already; it feels like I just finally managed to get a PS5 last year. What’s the first game you’d want to play on a next-gen console?
It’s fascinating how the PS5’s release hits differently depending on your stage of life—congrats on finally snagging yours last year! For a next-gen console, I’d personally love to see a groundbreaking new entry in the Horizon series that fully leverages new hardware for even more immersive open worlds. If you’re curious about what might be coming, keeping an eye on industry events like Summer Game Fest is a great way to spot early teases. What kind of games or features would make a PS6 an instant buy for you?
I was a senior in college during my last semester.
I bought the original PlayStation with my first paycheck as a teenager.
Wow, it really puts time into perspective to hear you were in seventh grade when the PS5 launched—I was already out of college and working my first job! It’s wild to think the PS6 chatter is starting already, making me realize how my own gaming habits have shifted from day-one purchases to waiting for a solid library of games. Does anyone else feel like console generations are blurring together faster now?
Thanks for sharing your perspective—it’s fascinating how the same console release can mark such different life stages. I think many would agree that console generations feel faster now, partly because mid-cycle upgrades like the PS5 Pro extend a generation’s life while keeping the tech conversation active. If you’re leaning toward waiting for a solid game library, following curated lists like “best PS5 exclusives by year” can help you pinpoint when to jump in. How has your approach to picking up new consoles evolved over the years?
I was in eighth grade when the PS5 was released.
None. I was a fully grown adult and had been out of college for a couple of years. I spent much of my twenties in college, so that should give you an idea.
I was in high school.
I’m not sure what you mean, but based on the context, I think I graduated high school around the time OP was born.
I have children older than the original poster.
I was a senior in high school when the PS5 released. Now I’m in college, and I’ll be a senior again in the 2026/2027 academic year. It’s strange to think about.
I was in college.
I was 24 when the PS5 was released.
I was 29 and in grad school when the PS5 was released.
I was a senior in high school when the PlayStation was released.
I graduated 14 years before its release.
I was 10 when the PlayStation 1 was released, so I’m too old to recall what grade I was in.
I was already in college—a junior, in fact.
I was in 9th grade when the PS5 was released.
I was in medical school when the PS5 was released.
I was 19 years old when the PS5 was released.
I was in college when the PS5 came out. It’s funny how posts like this can make you feel old.
I had been out of school for 45 years by that time.
I was in my final year of college.
You forgot to capitalize the B.
I was in college.
I was already out of school for over 20 years when the PS5 released. I bought mine on launch night, and it honestly feels like yesterday. Time really flies in your 30s and 40s. The PS5 will likely be supported until at least 2030, so it still has a good five-plus years left—it’s middle-aged now.
I expect the PS6 will launch around late 2027 or early 2028, with late 2028 at the latest, so we still have a while to wait. For context, I was a sophomore in high school when the original PlayStation came out.
I was 30 and completing my master’s thesis at the time.
I was in my 27th year of working, so I was well out of school by then.
I was 21, which would have put me in my senior year of college.
I was in college when the PS5 was released.
The PS5 is nearly five years old, and the next generation is approaching.
I’m not sure when it was released. I still play Skyrim and Borderlands on my Xbox One.
I was one grade below you.
I was in eighth grade when the PS5 was released.
It’s interesting to see the variety of ages represented here.
I was in 12th grade when the PS5 released, and I’ve since completed college.
I was a senior in high school when the PS3 came out, which was the last console released before I graduated.
I was in my 33rd grade, or you could say I was a supersenior for the 21st time.
I was a sophomore in college.
I was in year 5 of primary school, which is equivalent to 4th grade.
I was in 12th grade in 2010, so that would make me in 27th grade now.
I was in 28th grade. Correction: I meant 38th grade. I feel old.
I wasn’t born yet when the PS5 was released.
I was already out of college when the PS5 released. Time seems to fly by now, but it only goes faster.
I was a grown adult working as a lawyer when the PS5 was released.
I wasn’t in school at the time.
I was in my fourth year of college.
I was in sixth grade when the PS5 was released.
I was four years out of college when the PS5 was released.
I was already an adult when the PS5 was released.
I was out of school by the time the PS5 came out, so I guess that makes me ancient.
I was already out of secondary school when the PS5 launched in 2020. People born in 2000 would have graduated by then and are only 25 now.
I was in Year 8 in the UK, so I was around 12 years old.
I had been out of school for four and a half years and was working full time.
I was 34 years old when the PS5 was released.
I was 19 and in my first year of university.
I was 20 and in my second year of college.
I was in the highest grade at the time.
I was in my mid-30s when the PS5 was released.
I wasn’t in school when the PS5 was released.
I was in 10th grade when the PS5 released. I just recalled that the controller meme was from my 9th-grade year.
I was about to start 12th grade.
I was in eighth grade when the PS2 came out.
I was in the same grade.
I was 32, eight years out of college, and three years away from starting grad school.
I was a grown man in my 30s when the PS5 was released.
I was in college when the PS5 was released.
I was in college when the PS5 released, but it wasn’t really on my radar since I didn’t play many games and it was expensive.
I graduated high school 18 years before the PS5 was released.
I was in my mid-30s.
I was 59 years old.
I graduated high school 20 years ago, but I wasn’t able to get a PS5 until 2023.
I graduated in 2000 and still don’t have a PS5. It’s the only PlayStation I haven’t owned, but I’ll probably get one once the PS6 is released.
I was in the Italian equivalent of 9th grade when the PS5 launched in 2020, and I just finished school this June. It’s wild to think there are already rumors about the PS6. The PS5 felt so futuristic at release. My dad managed to get one of the first fat models in our region in November 2020. Now we have three PS5s at home, two of which are the slim model that came out in 2023, when I was in 11th grade. Time really flies.
That follows the typical life cycle. The PlayStation launched in 1994/95, PS2 in 2000, PS3 in 2006, PS4 in 2013, and PS5 in 2020. There’s generally a 6-7 year gap between releases.
I was in my 32nd year of school.
I was already retired when the PS5 was released.
I was in 9th grade when the PS5 was released.
I was about to turn 41.
I had already graduated by the time the PS5 was released.
I was in third grade when the PS1 was released.
I had already graduated when the PS5 was released.
I was out of school by the time the PS5 was released.
I was in my final year of high school when the PS5 was released.
I graduated in 2012 and was 26 when the PS5 was released.
I’ve witnessed the Atari, Intellivision, Coleco, Nintendo, Game Boy, SNES, Sega, Sega Saturn, Sega Master System, TurboGrafx-16, Neo Geo, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, Virtual Boy, N64, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, Sony Dreamcast, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PlayStation PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, Switch, and Switch 2. Having seen nine console generations come and go, time has lost its meaning—new consoles arrive and depart as quickly as the seasons.
It’s surprising that all these released before GTA6.
I was in my 50s when the PS5 was released.
I was in Pong.
I’ve been an adult for 16 years, so please stop making me feel old. I’m going to take my fiber supplement and tell the kids to get off my lawn.
I was a senior in high school when the original PlayStation was released.
I was in college.
I was in college when the PS2 launched. By the time the PS3 came out, my oldest child had just been born.
I was in my twelfth-grade year when the PS5 was released.
I was in my 40s when the PS5 was released.
I was a senior in high school when the PS5 was released.
I was in grad school in 2020, which would be around grade 21 or 22.
I was in kindergarten when the PS5 was released.
I was a junior in college.
I was six months out of college.
I was an adult, likely in my 30s, when the PS5 released. The PS2 came out either during my senior year of high school or just after. Before I graduated, most people had the original Xbox.
I was in my mid-thirties when the PS5 was released.
I was in my junior year of high school when the PS5 was released.
I was a sophomore in high school, or 10th grade, when the PS5 released. It’s strange to realize I graduated three years ago.
I was in my thirties when the PS5 was released.
I was 35 as well.
I was already out of school for decades when the PS5 released. The PlayStation 2 was still current when I graduated.
I was 38 years old.
I was in 10th grade when the PS5 was released.
I was 24 and finishing university when the PS5 was released.
I was a junior in high school.
I had already been out of high school for seven years by then.
I was 24 and out of school, though I would have been in my third year of a PhD if I had pursued it.
I was around for the original Xbox and PlayStation 2 releases. I remember playing GTA on a friend’s PS2 back in 2001.
I was 21, so I had already graduated by then.
I was long out of school by then—I was 31.
I was in my first year of college when the PS5 released. Seeing all these responses from older users explains why so many posts complain about younger generations.
You’re selecting the worst fashion choices from the past and then looking at people with dead eyes, expecting a positive reaction.
I thought that slur faded out with my generation.
I had already been out of school for 11 years when the PS5 was released. I had to look up its launch date.
I was in my 26th year of working after college.
I was in year 11, which is equivalent to 10th grade.
I was 27, so I wasn’t in school at the time.
I was about eight years out of college.
I was in my first year of college.
I was a few months out of high school when the PS5 was released.
I was already out of high school when the PS5 was released.
I had already finished school by the time the PS5 was released.
I was in college when the PS5 was released.
I was in school around the time your father was born.
I was 25 years old.
I was already out of school when the PS5 was released.
I was working at the time.
I was an adult with my own money, patiently waiting to outsmart the scalpers.
I was teaching 12th grade during my 11th year as a teacher.
I don’t recall.
I was in my late forties.
I was in 9th grade, my freshman year of high school.
I was already an adult when the PS5 came out, so my kids were grown by then as well.
I was 45 years old when the PS5 was released.
I was about 33 years old.
I was in middle school when the PS2 came out and 19 when the PS3 came out.
I was in fifth grade when the PS5 came out.
I was 24 when the PS5 released, dealing with the challenges of COVID disrupting my life.
I was in college.
I was 13 and in 8th grade when the PS5 released. I’m 18 now.
I feel old reading this.
I was 21 when the PS5 released. I managed to get an Xbox Series X on launch day, but it took two years to find a PS5 because they were so scarce at first.
I was a 38-year-old college freshman when the PS5 was released.
I was in fifth grade when the original PlayStation was released. At the time, it was simply called PlayStation. The abbreviation PS didn’t come into use until the PS2 launched.
You might be too young to be on Reddit, OP.
I was in fifth grade when the original PlayStation came out.
I was in third grade when the original PlayStation came out, and I was about 33 when the PS5 released.
My granddaughter was in Pre-K3 when the PS5 launched in November 2020.
I was in eleventh grade.
I graduated in 2015, so I was in my 21st year of education when the PS5 was released.
I was in my senior year of high school when the PS5 was released.
I was almost 30 years old.
I don’t remember—I stopped keeping up with consoles after the PS4.
I was well into my late twenties.
I was a junior in high school when the PS5 was released.
I was in eighth grade when the PlayStation 1 was released.
I was already out of school when the PS5 was released.
I was in eighth grade.
I was in 9th grade.
I was in sixth grade when the PS3 launched, had just graduated high school six months before the PS4 released, and was 26 when the PS5 came out.
I had already been out of school for two years.
I was in sixth grade when the PS5 was released.
My oldest child was four when the PS5 was released. I feel old, don’t I?
I’m not sure. What is a PS5?
I was in fifth grade when the PlayStation 5 was released.
I was in the fifth grade.
I had just graduated high school that summer.
I was in my first semester of college and didn’t get my PS5 until June or July of 2021.
I was 49 or 50 years old.
I was a junior in high school.
I was in seventh grade in 2002.
I was already out of school when the PS5 was released.
I was in fifth grade.
I was in 39th grade.
I was in school when the NES was released.
I was in my junior year of high school when the PS5 was released.