Sony is Undecided on the Release Date and Price for PS6 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 May 2026 / 6,240 Views
Sony president and CEO Hiroki Totoki in an earnings call with investors revealed the company has not decided on when to launch the PlayStation 6 or how much to charge for it.
Totoki said if the price of memory continues to increase that would increase the cost to manufacture consoles, which would have big impact on consoles.
Sony for the rest of the 2026 calendar year has been able to acquire the necessary volume of parts and has "to a certain extent agreed on the price itself."
When it comes to the PS6 Totoki stated "We have not yet decided on at what timing we will launch the new console, or at what prices."
He continued, "So we would like to really observe and follow the situation. 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."
Sony will be looking at other ways to reduce the cost of hardware and will look at new potential ways to sell the PS6.
"We would like to think about various simulations, including changing business models to come up with the best solution and strategy," he said.
Lifetime shipment figures for the PS5 have reached 93.7 million with the number of consoles shipped down 46.4 percent to 1.3 million units for the quarter ending March 2026.
Thanks, VideoGamesChronicle.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can follow the author on Bluesky.
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im not ready for a PS6, lets get some more PS5 games going
I still can’t believe there were people shouting “PS5 has NO games” back in years as jam packed as 2022 and 2024. Yeah ignoring these people is almost always the right call.
This happens every years for so many years now.
Funny I was talking to a coworker yesterday that nowdays the problem is either having time and money to keep up with so many games, and I come to a site about games and have to read that, lol.
You said it didn't get "ANY" you goof!
People don't buy Playstation just to play first and second party games, which btw are much more popular today than they were in PS3 days. And no, you just can't accept that different people are drawn to different things. The "facts" don't revolve around your sensibilities.
Facts are facts... they don't revolve around anyone because they are exactly that. Facts. And while it may seem conjecture to use the phrase "ANY" in relation to the "more" from the op comment... it still stands to reason that it is a valid statement. Especially when you consider the amount of time that has passed since the 5 was announced, to launch, to current and the rate of games that have come from Sony studios has been extremely barren. Hence why i even said "ANY" to begin with.
And yes people buy PS because of 1st/2nd party games. 3rd party are dime a dozen and often times never fully embrace the capabilities of a platform because they have to cover all the bases. which leaves ONLY the studios that are 1st/2nd party to take up the mantle and prove why the hardware is worth the price of admission.
You have been around long enough to know this, dont play silly.
More mental gymnastics. You made a factually wrong statement, then refused to acknowledge that different people buy the console for different reasons, or that Sony's output limited as it is today, is a lot more popular than their output was in the PS3 era.
PS5 deserves much of the criticism it gets. But you don't dictate its final value to people who disagree with you. Its overall library is already superior to PS3 as far as quality games that people talk about. Most people don't care that many of their favorite games are available on other systems. And unlike PS3, PS5 still has give or take 7 more years of near full support.
PS5 is the better console, no contest. Popularity, spending, and engagement don't lie. You screaming "worst generation" is your opinion and you're entitled to it, but acting like people who disagree with you are in denial is ignorant and arrogant.
As far as I'm concerned, the PS360 generation is the worst that I experienced (and I've been gaming since the NES days). But I'll respect the opinion of those who disagree and won't belittle them.
So you don't see the difference between Saros and Alienation, Dead Nation, Matterfall, ect and you talk about screwed up minds...I have extensive experience with Housmarque games.. Do you? Do you have an argument, or are you going to default to the retard that prays for a Legend Of Dragoon sequel for the 1000th time? You're already 98% there!
My argument? Yours is calling something slop like every braindead people posting the same thing in the internet for the last year and you are asking about my argument?
Your argument is parroting internet catchphrases and becoming angry and bringing random stuff to the discussion, so yes, your mind is beyond screwed, as it was clear from the previous post.
They are going to look to lease you the console. They have something like for PS5 in certain markets already to test it out.
Sounds like they want to wait out this hardware shortage if they can. I'm expecting late 2028.
The shortage won't end because of AI twats and their stupid fucking data centers for Skynet.
PS6 will release November 2028.
Yet another consequence of short sighted billionaires spreading data centers and using AI to layoff their already underpaid workforce, all so the obscenely rich can get richer. I can see why the French Revolution happened and why it may need to happen again.
Sony and Microsoft both would be smart to delay until at least 2028 if they were planning on 2027 as rumored originally, maybe even wait till 2029. Wait it out and hope that supply starts to meet demand again on RAM and SSD storage, so that you can afford to release PS6 and Project Helix under $1000, lol
Wish all those data centers were demolished so that their RAM and memory could instead be used for gaming.
The generational leap that the market expects won't be possible, at anything approaching a reasonable price, at least until 2029. Maybe 2030.
As they should be.
Releasing it in November 2027 is less a problem for PS5 and more a pricing and manufacturing issue for PS6.
I don't think Sony wants to release a console that will have a good to great holiday and then drop off a cliff right away because most of the enthusiasts already got it.
$900 seems like the floor for PS6 and so Sony needs to really convince people to upgrade.
Games are also taking longer and longer to develop from a lot of studios. Naughty Dog still hasn't released a new game yet on PS5.
I still think $800 is the floor, and too expensive.
Imho, anything above $700 is too much, and $700 is just wishful thinking ATM.
There would be absolutely no point in it next year. If it was up to me I'd say 2030. The technology just doesn't evolve enough in 7 years any longer and with hardware getting more expensive it's also less practical to produce and expect people to buy these systems as often as they used to. The only argument that still remains for 7 year lifecycles is tradition.
Wait for the AI bubble to hopefully pop first.
Delay it to 2030.
If they announce it in 2028 somewhere in April, then the price will at least $799 to not lose a lot of money. This is probably the last generation of traditional gaming consoles. The next ones will be probably multimedia devices that can do gaming and productivity.
No one has been able to explain to me why the government allowed one company to buy all the ram. Doesn't make any sense. Or even continues to do so.
I was optimistic there for a second because that turned out to only be letters of intent, and not an actual purchase of that much ram, yet the market took it as a done deal. So when that deal fell through, I thought we might start to go back to normalcy. It's all just going to new AI data centers being built lol
