Report suggests Sony could push PS6 launch to 2029 due to memory shortages

The tech industry is currently dealing with major shortages and rising costs for memory. RAM prices have gone up quickly, and this has already affected GPUs, SSDs, and other hardware. And now, it seems like, because of the ongoing memory crisis, Sony may be forced to delay its next-generation console.

According to a new report from Bloomberg, Sony Group Corp is considering pushing the launch of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or even 2029. This is a big change from earlier expectations, which pointed to a late-2027 release.

“Sony Group Corp. is now considering pushing back the debut of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or even 2029, according to people familiar with the company’s thinking. That would be a major upset to a carefully orchestrated strategy to sustain user engagement between hardware generations.”

Bloomberg notes that such a delay would disrupt Sony’s usual console strategy. Sony typically plans its hardware launches carefully to keep players engaged between console generations. Delaying the PS6 by one or two years would be a significant shift, but launching during a memory shortage could make the console far more expensive than Sony would like. A previous leak claimed that the PS6 is expected to feature 30GB of GDDR7 RAM, which is 14GB more than the current PS5.