Sony CEO Hiroko Totoki has been speaking to the Wall Street Journal and has revealed that there is no launch date for the PlayStation 6.
In the interview (as spotted by VGC), he discusses the current shortages and high prices of components such as GPUs and memory, stating, “Considering that importance, we need to take some action. Otherwise, we cannot survive in this landscape”. The article then adds, “Totoki said the company still hasn’t fixed a date for PS6’s launch.”
Totoki made a similar comment almost a year ago. “Looking at the current circumstances, the memory price is also expected to be very high FY 2027, because there will still be a shortage of supply,” he said at the time. “So under that assumption, we must think carefully what we will do. We would like to think about various simulations, including changing business models to come up with the best solution and strategy.”
At the time, the PS6 is said to have the codename of Orion, but there is also a second console, Project Canis, which is a handheld device built around Zen 6c CPU cores, RDNA 5 compute units, 16GB of LPDDR5X memory. This device is said to be backwards compatible with PS4 and PS5 games.
If these were normal circumstances, then PlayStation fans would be clamouring for a new console by now, but I think common sense has prevailed and no one really wants to spend over £1000 on a new console that offers little more than better graphics.
Gareth Chadwick
They may as well not bother. £1000 for a console that doesn’t have discs, leaving you slave to extortionate digital pricing that never reduces.
I’ll be switching to PC instead.