Sony is contemplating holding again the discharge of PlayStation 6 to 2028 or 2029, a brand new report claims.
In an article in regards to the ongoing surge in reminiscence costs, Bloomberg says the upcoming bottleneck of reminiscence manufacturing will trigger large ramifications throughout the tech business.
Dubbing it ‘RAMmageddon’, the article asks quite a few tech analysts on their views on the continued enhance of RAM costs, a surge primarily attributed to AI knowledge centres shopping for up large portions of it, making provides scarce.
Noting that Apple, Tesla and a minimum of a dozen different main firms have warmed that the scarcity of reminiscence will constrain manufacturing sooner or later, the article claims that Sony and Nintendo are planning on appearing accordingly.
Citing sources accustomed to Sony’s strategic considering, the article claims that “Sony Group Corp is now contemplating pushing again the debut of its subsequent PlayStation console to 2028 and even 2029″.
It additionally claims that Nintendo is contemplating elevating the value of Change 2 later this yr. Neither Sony nor Nintendo responded to requests for touch upon Bloomberg’s article.
The article insists that the RAM scarcity problem will not be going to be resolved any time quickly, quoting Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing as saying “this structural imbalance between provide and demand will not be merely a short-term fluctuation”.
Tim Archer, CEO of chip tools provider Lam Analysis Corp, reportedly informed attendees at a convention in South Korea earlier this month: “We stand on the cusp of one thing that’s larger than something we’ve confronted earlier than. What’s forward of us between now and the tip of this decade, by way of demand, is larger than something we’ve seen up to now, and, actually, will overwhelm all different sources of demand.”
Whereas up to now console costs have tended to drop over the course of a technology, the pattern has modified this yr with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all growing the costs of their methods over time.
Sony beforehand elevated the value of PS5 in choose areas in August 2022, then once more in April 2025, earlier than doing the identical within the US in August 2025.
Final yr Nintendo held fireplace on Change 2 pre-orders within the US attributable to financial uncertainty within the area (together with tariffs set by the US president), earlier than ultimately asserting that whereas the console itself wouldn’t see a worth enhance at launch, some equipment would.
“Nintendo Change 2 equipment will expertise worth changes from these introduced on April 2 [2025] attributable to modifications in market circumstances,” it stated on the time. “Different changes to the value of any Nintendo product are additionally doable sooner or later relying on market circumstances.”
This got here to cross in August, when Nintendo introduced that it was growing the value of the unique Change console within the US attributable to “market circumstances”, growing the value of Change to $339 (from $299), Change OLED to $399 (from $349) and a Change Lite to $229 (from $199).
Earlier this month Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa stated there are nonetheless no plans to extend the value of Change 2 as a result of growing value of reminiscence, however that this might change if the state of affairs isn’t resolved.
Furukawa defined that Nintendo was having discussions with its suppliers to make sure a secure provide of parts in the long run. He added that the current surge in reminiscence costs didn’t considerably impression on its {hardware} profitability throughout the third quarter of its monetary yr (October to December 2025), and he doesn’t anticipate a major impression within the fourth quarter both.
He famous, nevertheless, that ought to the surge in costs proceed into the following monetary yr and past, this might ultimately have an effect on profitability, and that ought to the state of affairs deteriorate considerably, the corporate will assess the market and take acceptable measures.
