{"id":576542,"date":"2026-08-22T04:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576542\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T04:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:36:09","slug":"leaker-tips-ps6-handeld-price-at-over-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576542\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaker Tips PS6 Handeld Price at Over $600"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a number of leaks about the upcoming PlayStation 6 handheld, including purported details about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/346135\/leak-suggests-generous-memory-specs-for-playstation-6-console-handheld-sibling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Canis APU<\/a> slated to arrive in the handheld with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/350429\/amd-backs-up-ps6-portable-rumors-with-zen-6-lp-core-support-in-linux\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zen 6 LP cores<\/a>. Despite this, we still haven&#8217;t seen any real indication of a price for the new handheld, even though there are already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/350383\/ps6-hardware-cost-estimated-at-usd-900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BOM estimates floating around for the PS6 living room console<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>According to ubiquitous hardware leaker, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neogaf.com\/threads\/launching-ps6-and-xbox-helix-at-1-000-could-lead-to-a-nearly-40-drop-in-sales-over-five-years-analyst-warns.1700385\/post-271897560\" target=\"_blank\">KeplerL2 on the NeoGAF forums<\/a>, however, it seems as though a $600 PlayStation 6 Portable is off the cards. In response to a recent question about the price of the PS6 Portable&#8217;s price, the leaker stated that a $600 handheld &#8220;is definitely not possible right now,&#8221; thanks to LPDDR memory price increases attributed to demand from data centers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/wTeicYmV480fQetI.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"1280\" data-height=\"720\" data-fancybox=\"g351819\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wTeicYmV480fQetI_thm.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/W0la3Au9HUbbggGo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"1695\" data-height=\"346\" data-fancybox=\"g351819\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/W0la3Au9HUbbggGo_thm.jpg\" width=\"637\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a> KeplerL2$600 is definitely not possible right now, LPDDR memory is actually seeing the biggest price increases since it&#8217;s being used in a lot of datacenter products.The memory and storage crises have already pushed the prices of powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/348371\/lenovo-legion-go-s-gets-eyewatering-price-bump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PC gaming handhelds well north of $1,000<\/a>, with even Valve&#8217;s aging Steam Deck feeling the pinch resulting in a price increase that saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/349412\/steam-deck-oled-prices-rise-by-up-to-usd-300-amid-component-shortages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">base model climb to $789<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been a number of leaks about the upcoming PlayStation 6 handheld, including purported details about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-576542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}