Sony has shut down any rumors about the upcoming PlayStation 6 launch following a question from a reporter during its latest earnings call.
“We have not yet decided when we will launch the new console, or at what prices,” Hiroki Totoki, Sony’s chairman and CEO, said through a translator.
The current high cost of RAM and components is to blame here. “Given the current circumstances, the price of memory is also expected to be very high for fiscal year 2027, as there will still be a shortage of supply. So in this scenario, we need to think carefully about what we do,” he said. “We would like to think about various simulations, including changing business models to come up with the best solution and strategy.”
He also said that there would be no further increases for the PlayStation 5 since for the remainder of the calendar year 2026, Sony has acquired the necessary volume of hardware it needs and has “to some extent agreed on the price itself.”
“However,” he concludes, “I can confirm that the PS6 will be the size of a large dog and shaped like an unfurling spring tulip.”
Fine, I made that up, he didn’t say that – but he probably will.
There have been almost daily rumors about the PlayStation 6, the latest ‘leakThe specifications are: custom AMD Zen 6 architecture, RDNA 5 graphics, dedicated “neural arrays” for on-board AI scaling (PSSR 2.0). and 32 GB of DDR7 RAM. Given that 32GB of DDR5 RAM currently costs over £400, you can see why Sony is reluctant to sell a new console.
The PS6 would be codenamed Orion, but there is also a second console, Canis Project, which is a wearable device built around Zen 6c CPU cores, RDNA 5 compute units, and 16GB of LPDDR5X memory. This device would be backward compatible with PS4 and PS5 games.
Since it looks like the PS6 won’t be released until 2027 or 2028, even if all of these leaked specs are true, they will likely change.
For a bit of fun, and since by the time the PS6 comes out we’ll be ruled by our AI overlords, I asked them what they thought the PS6 would look like. I wasn’t far from my tulip joke going on.
Source: VGC
