The price and release date of the PS6 has not yet been decided, according to the president and CEO of Sony Group Corporation Hiroki Totoki.
During the company’s corporate strategy and earnings announcement presentation (via Reset Era), Sony Group Corporation president and CEO Hiroki Totoki said that the company hasn’t yet determined a price and release schedule for its next-gen console, the PS6.
Totoki talked about memory prices directly impacting the PS6’s Bill of Materials (BoM), which is why Sony Group Corporation hasn’t yet decided on a launch window for the next-gen platform. He expects memory prices to remain high in 2027, so the company will carefully evaluate the advancement and work with that. Additionally, Sony is also looking at new business models and products to tackle the market situation, possibly suggesting the rumored PlayStation handheld as a cheaper entry point to next-gen.
“About the upcoming generation, future generation gaming consoles,” said Totoki. “We have not yet decided on at what timing we will launch the new console at what prices. So we would like to really observe and follow the situation. The memory prices, looking at the current circumstances, the memory prices is expected to be very high also in FY27, because there will still be a shortage in supply. So under that assumption, what can, we will like to think about, think carefully what we can do. The, how can we reduce the other costs of the hardware other than the semiconductor? And also, we might think of new ways of selling the product. So in, we would like to think about various, we will do various simulations, including changing business models to come up with the best solution and strategy.”
Meanwhile, hardware insiders Moore’s Law Is Dead and KeplerL2 have both claimed that the PS6 is still on track for a late 2027 launch.
