Sunday, June 28th 2026
PS6 Hardware Cost Estimated at $900+
The upcoming Sony PlayStation 6 is slated to launch sometime in 2028, and with recent reports claiming that the ongoing RAM crisis likely won't end or ease up much before then, concerns are mounting about the price of next-gen gaming consoles. Those concerns are seemingly justified, with ubiquitous hardware leaker, KeplerL2, indicating that the PS6's bill of materials cost has increased by as much as $200 since they predicted the cost at $760. This puts the BOM cost of the PS6 at around $960, if the leaker is to be believed, and current speculation suggests that the console may be priced at around $850-899 when it reaches the end consumer.
Somewhat alarmingly, this price prediction is only for the base model Digital Edition, and Sony seems to not want to ditch the Disc Edition entirely—although it may be approaching disc media differently with the PS6—so gamers who want a disc drive may need to pay as much as $950 for the PS6. Recently, following Sony's April price hikes that resulted in a $649.99 PS5 Disc Edition, Microsoft increased the price of the Xbox Series consoles across the board by $100-150, pushing current-gen consoles to their highest prices so far. The Valve Steam Machine also recently launched at a painfully high price as a result of the RAM crisis.
Source:
KeplerL2 via NeoGAF forums
Somewhat alarmingly, this price prediction is only for the base model Digital Edition, and Sony seems to not want to ditch the Disc Edition entirely—although it may be approaching disc media differently with the PS6—so gamers who want a disc drive may need to pay as much as $950 for the PS6. Recently, following Sony's April price hikes that resulted in a $649.99 PS5 Disc Edition, Microsoft increased the price of the Xbox Series consoles across the board by $100-150, pushing current-gen consoles to their highest prices so far. The Valve Steam Machine also recently launched at a painfully high price as a result of the RAM crisis.
55 Comments on PS6 Hardware Cost Estimated at $900+
Screw you Sony.
Please try again to read what I wrote. Make sure the checkbox "comprehensive" is marked at you reading settings beforehand.
The future is 100% cloud gaming, so people will just have a basically cheap box that just has some I/O ports, a small storage device, and that will be about it
Given the rising income gap there probably is 80 to 90 million families worldwide that can afford $1000 console at least that's what Sony seems to be counting on. That's one reason more why I'm a PC gamer. With back catalogue of 385 games in steam library and 598 on Epic store, most of them I haven't touched yet, I'm probably good for 10 years, without a need to upgrade hardware if I choose not to.