Overview
- Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson reports that platform holders are debating pushing launches beyond the widely discussed 2027–2028 window to wait for memory prices to ease.
- RAM costs have jumped by hundreds of percent as AI and data‑center buyers absorb supply, tightening availability of DDR5 and graphics memory used in consoles.
- Micron plans to exit the consumer RAM market in 2026, a shift cited across coverage as further constraining consumer memory supply.
- Outlets warn that if conditions persist, current‑gen PS5 and Xbox prices could increase again in 2026 and next‑gen hardware could debut at significantly higher price points.
- There are no official delay announcements, and some insiders say fabs are ramping output, with documents pointing to PS6 manufacturing plans beginning in mid‑2027.