- October 19, 2026
- Updated: October 19, 2026 at 12:36 PM
The new generation of consoles isn’t going to be cheap.That’s obvious from looking at the current price of consoles and how AI has driven up the price of components, but it seems to be confirmed by the latest reports coming in. According to insiders the new PlayStation 6 would cost more than $1,000, and the reason is that more than $700 of that would already go on RAM alone.
A ludicrously expensive console
We know all this because according to Video Game Chronicle and AMD insider KeplerL2, the RAM and flash memory in Sony’s next console would cost “more than $680”. While the number may seem exaggerated, it isn’t when you do the math. PlayStation 5 already uses 16.5GB of RAM, 18.5 if you include the Pro model, which, taking current memory costs into account, is a completely reasonable figure.
On top of all this, we have to add not only the cost of the other components, but also that Sony has already said it doesn’t plan to subsidize the cost of the console. In the past, PlayStation covered part of the cost of the console to make its final price more attractive. That way, although they sold it at a loss, they ended up making the money back in other ways: by selling games, peripherals or subscriptions. But in the case of PlayStation 6 they’ve already confirmed that they don’t want to sell at a loss, which only leaves them the option of selling the console well above $1,000, passing those costs directly on to consumers.
Considering that the current generation of consoles is the first to get more expensive over time, not less, this is a move that shouldn’t surprise us. But that doesn’t mean there necessarily is a market for a home console costing more than $1,000.
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