Sony’s PlayStation 6 Might Be Further Away than You Hoped
Sony may delay PlayStation 6 launch to 2028 or 2029 due to a global DRAM shortage driven by AI companies competing for limited memory chips.
- Bloomberg reports Sony is considering pushing back the PlayStation 6 debut to 2028 or 2029, corroborating earlier warnings of a possible multi-year delay.
- Amid a global DRAM shortage, prices rose since late last year as OpenAI and Alphabet Inc. bought memory for AI data centres, increasing supply competition.
- If released in 2029, the PlayStation 5 would remain on sale for nine years, exceeding the typical seven-year console generation timing.
- Nintendo has warned it may reevaluate the Switch 2's price next financial year, and Microsoft might aim to launch its next Xbox before a delayed PS6, reports say.
- The worldwide memory shortage looks set to raise video game hardware prices for years and shift next-generation consoles beyond 2027, delaying usual release patterns.
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Sony is seriously assessing delaying the launch of PlayStation 6 for one or two years in the face of the RAM memory crisis
AI giants are hoarding memory chips, pushing prices to hyperinflation levels
A growing procession of tech industry leaders, including Elon Musk and Tim Coo,k are warning about a global crisis in the making: A shortage of memory chips is beginning to hammer profits, derail corporate plans and inflate price tags on everything from laptops and smartphones to automobiles and data centers — and the crunch is only going to get worse.
Sony Considers PS6 Delay To 2028/2029?
A new report over at Bloomberg about the consumer memory production shortage, nicknaming it ‘RAMmageddon’, has gone into the various ramifications across the tech industry. As previously reported, the surge in demand for HBM memory production for artificial intelligence servers has led to a real shortage in consumer-supplied DRAM used in devices from laptops to phones, televisions, PCs and game consoles. Apple, Tesla and many other major corpora…
New PlayStation console possibly delayed due to memory shortage
AI’s huge demand for memory is having ongoing major flow-on effects throughout the consumer tech industry. One of the latest potential victims of the current memory shortage is Sony, which is reportedly looking at delaying the next PlayStation (widely speculated to be the PS6) until 2029. As investment in AI datacentres continues to grow, so does the requirement for DRAM, placing pressure on other devices that also need memory. As a result, phon…
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