{"id":664126,"date":"2026-06-29T10:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664126\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:18:12","slug":"ps6-hardware-cost-estimated-at-900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664126\/","title":{"rendered":"PS6 Hardware Cost Estimated at $900+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming Sony PlayStation 6 is slated to launch sometime in 2028, and with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/forums\/threads\/micron-predicts-dram-crisis-until-at-least-2028.350343\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recent reports<\/a> claiming that the ongoing RAM crisis likely won&#8217;t end or ease up much before then, concerns are mounting about the price of next-gen gaming consoles. Those concerns are seemingly justified, with ubiquitous hardware leaker, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neogaf.com\/threads\/up-according-to-keplerl2-the-ps6%E2%80%99s-bom-is-estimated-at-around-960.1695213\/post-271729341\" target=\"_blank\">KeplerL2<\/a>, indicating that the PS6&#8217;s bill of materials cost has increased by as much as $200 since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/347874\/usd-700-ps6-still-possible-but-chances-are-slim-with-usd-800-xbox-incoming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">they predicted the cost at $760<\/a>. This puts the BOM cost of the PS6 at around $960, if the leaker is to be believed, and current speculation suggests that the console may be priced at around $850-899 when it reaches the end consumer. <\/p>\n<p>Somewhat alarmingly, this price prediction is only for the base model Digital Edition, and Sony seems to not want to ditch the Disc Edition entirely\u2014although it may be approaching disc media differently with the PS6\u2014so gamers who want a disc drive may need to pay as much as $950 for the PS6. Recently, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/348255\/sonys-price-increase-triggered-playstation-5-buying-rush-for-record-2026-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sony&#8217;s April price hikes that resulted in a $649.99 PS5 Disc Edition<\/a>, Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/350302\/xbox-console-prices-skyrocket-in-august\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">increased the price of the Xbox Series consoles across the board<\/a> by $100-150, pushing current-gen consoles to their highest prices so far. The Valve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/350224\/pre-rampocalypse-steam-machine-pricing-was-30-cheaper?cp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Steam Machine also recently launched at a painfully high price<\/a> as a result of the RAM crisis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/itgBwNCl490MKE2S.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"1200\" data-height=\"644\" data-fancybox=\"g350383\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/itgBwNCl490MKE2S_thm.jpg\" width=\"242\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/el3BJ3kFVwKJzWhO.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"1811\" data-height=\"351\" data-fancybox=\"g350383\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/el3BJ3kFVwKJzWhO_thm.jpg\" width=\"671\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The upcoming Sony PlayStation 6 is slated to launch sometime in 2028, and with recent reports claiming that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-664126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}