Sony May Cut PlayStation 6 RAM to 24GB to Combat Rising Console Prices
The current crop of consoles are nearing six years old, and both Microsoft and Sony are hard at work at developing their next generation gaming systems. Unfortunately, development is happening during a memory and storage shortage, which has caused significant price increases across the industry. For the PlayStation 6, that might mean launching with less memory than that company had initially planned, in an effort to hit a more desirable MSRP.
A discussion on the NeoGAF forums, which is frequented by many leakers and insiders including the well known KeplerL2, shed some light on how much RAM Sony might integrate into the PS6. When one user suggested that the company should equip the console with just 20GB of RAM, KeplerL2 responded with, “nerfing the specs so much kinda defeats the point of having a next-gen system.”
Instead, KeplerL2 shared that the only “reasonable” configuration would be to include 1TB of...
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