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+
Ill say this last time in this thread ...
You compared Apple to Sony (...???)
Apple just buys out its competitors and other people technology's then they think and YOU think Apple is great.
Apple just rips people of yearly with basically the same product.
Not my fault poeple think updating your iphone is required every YEAR.
For the quality and services Sony provide with their products THEY never rip people off like your lovely Apple.
A $2000 PSX every 5 years is still cheaper than a new $500 iphone every year for 5 years.
Go back to school kid. They should refund your parents the education money they paid on you cause it didnt work.
Go and stick your Apple logo (and most probably your Tux penguin logo) on your car and have a nice life.
Oh Apple is having enough trouble dealing with Samsung, cause they couldnt buy them out LOL
Nice blob of text there, still absolutely nothing to do with what I wrote or referred to. I'd might say it's a strawman argument, but you failed to make any kind of argument at all.
So, to make it clear: We have spoken about DRAM (chip) manufacturing and DRAM prices where you called local PC-shops "small buyers" of DRAM. I corrected you, that on the DRAM (chip) market, Sony, G.Skill and such are the small buyers pushes on the fringes by Datacenters. PC shops and such are the buyers of those small buyers.
And for that, you started this tirade about Apple and ripoffs and whatnot.
LOL indeed... More like ROTFLCOPTER...
Accept you are not going to put more than 1tb in the thing. Painful cuts I am sure but may be the right move in the current climate.