PS6 release date is still undecided, Sony CEO admits

The wait for the next-generation continues

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• 🤷‍♂️ Even Sony’s CEO has admitted he doesn’t know when the PS6 will be released

• 🤔 The reason cited is the ongoing memory crisis

• 😔 Sony has admitted this before, and it doesn’t seem likely that we’ll see the PS6 next year

• 🆚 It could be well into 2028 given the current situation, as is also expected for Microsoft’s Project Helix

Sony still doesn’t know when the PS6 is going to be released, as even its CEO has admitted.

As per an article in the Wall Street Journal, Sony’s CEO, Hiroki Totoki, has stated that Sony hasn’t fixed a date for the launch of the console.

The article goes on to note that Sony’s “Shares are down about 2.5% over the past year, reflecting rising costs for essentials such as memory chips that are affecting the broader entertainment and gaming industry.”

This, in turn, has “affected the rollout of the PS6”, as per WSJ, and the expectations of a release next year “have drifted further out because of the global shortage of key components caused by the ravenous demand from AI.”.

It has been previously rumored that Sony was targeting 2027 for the PS6 release date, and that its launch plans reportedly haven’t changed.

However, this latest news is more official acknowledgement that Sony doesn’t know when the PS6 is going to launch, or how much the console is going to cost owing to the current memory situation.

This latest news compounds the feeling that the PS6 may not arrive until 2028 at the earliest, even though the console has been “top of mind” in recent months for the manufacturer.

If the PS6 does arrive in 2028, then it would be more in line with when we expect to see Microsoft’s Project Helix arrive. Microsoft confirmed in March that alpha dev kits for Project Helix should be rolling out next year, which could point to a release in 2028 or 2029 at the latest for the PlayStation 6 rival.

Rumors have indicated that the PS6 could be a versatile console with an accompanying handheld with a large amount of memory and have the ability to play discs as well as digital games.

However, the ongoing memory crisis and the recent bombshell that the brand is discontinuing physical game disc production for all new PlayStation titles starting January 2028 would lend credence to disputing those rumors. It seems like all we can do is wait and see what happens.

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Reece Bithrey is a journalist with bylines for Trusted Reviews, Digital Foundry, PC Gamer, TechRadar and more. He also has his own blog, UNTITLED, and graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in International History and Politics in 2023.