During a recent Q&A session as part of Sony’s financial report, Sony President and CEO Hiroki Totoki voiced concerns about the future of PlayStation 6, noting that while the company has secured the materials it needs for the rest of the year, uncertainty remains for next year. According to Totoki, this has affected plans for the upcoming console’s release.
“Looking at the current circumstances, the memory price is also expected to be very high FY 2027, because there will still be a shortage of supply. So under that assumption, we must think carefully what we will do,” Totoki said. “We have not yet decided on at what timing we will launch the new console, or at what prices, so we would like to really observe and follow the situation,” he continued.
Despite several previous rumors and reports, for now, it appears the console’s release window has not yet been decided internally, and it remains unclear how rising memory costs will affect the system’s future.
According to leaker and industry insider KeplerL2 on NeoGAF back in February, the PlayStation handheld console and the PlayStation 6 home console will feature 24GB and 30GB of GDDR7 RAM, respectively. This would be a notable increase from the 16GB of RAM found in the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro. The PlayStation 6 RAM modules are reportedly split across several 3GB modules, with the handheld using eight modules and the home console using ten. The PlayStation 6 system memory transfer speed is reportedly 32 GB/s and will be mounted on a 160-bit bus, totaling approximately 640GB/s of memory bandwidth across all modules on the motherboard.
When asked whether 24GB of RAM would be excessive for a handheld system and if 20GB would be sufficient, KeplerL2 responded, “20GB is not enough.” They added, “Yeah, an extra $100 to the [price] sucks, but they just have to deal with it for 1–2 years until prices come down.” The added cost is likely due to ongoing global memory shortages that have driven up RAM prices.
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