Since the surprise increase in prices for PS5 and the PS5 Promany players expected a cold shower on the price of the future PS6with rumors of more than €1,000. Everything seemed to point towards an almost “luxury” console.
A leak from a closely followed hardware insider has, however, changed the tone: the price envisaged for Sony’s next console would be much more contained. At the heart of this rumor, a precise calculation of the cost of components and a launch price still considered “possible” by the source, which could bring the PS6 back to more accessible territory.
PS6 price: What does the $699 KeplerL2 leak really say?
The hardware analyst KeplerL2 shared on the forum NeoGAF his estimate of the “Bill of Materials” of the PlayStation 6that is to say the sum of the cost of its main components. He mentions a BOM around $760 around €710, including processor, GPU, memory DRAMstorage NANDmotherboard and cooling for a model without drive.
KeplerL2 writes: “My current BOM (bill of materials) estimate for PS6 is ~$760, so I would say $699 is still possible with a reasonable subsidy.” In other words, a PS6 digital equipped with SSD Gen5 of 1 TB could be displayed at $699 around €650 excluding taxes if Sony agrees to sell the machine at a loss initially, as for the PS4 And PS5reports Indy100.
PS6: a really affordable price for French players?
Converted to the European market, this launch price would leave us waiting for a price of the PS6 between €699 and €749 according to several specialized French sites, taking into account VAT. Other projections even place a lower range, around €600 to €700 for the standard model.
Opposite, the PS5 Slim is already around €650 and the PS5 Pro climbs to around €900, close to €1,000 with detachable reader. A PS6 between €700 and €750 would therefore remain expensive, but well below the €1,000 or €1,200 scenarios feared in recent months, despite the 80 to 90% surge in DRAM and NAND prices linked to the AI boom.
PS6: release date, reliability of the leak and what official price to expect?
There remains one crucial point: to date, Sony did not officially announce the PS6 nor its price. The firm simply indicated that a new generation of PlayStation is “top of mind”. The figures put forward by KeplerL2 are therefore based on current component costs and Sony’s tradition of subsidizing the launch, not on a fixed price.
Most leaks, however, agree on a release window around the end of 2027, the “holiday 2027” period. Until then, the BOM could still vary with the price of memory, the dollar-euro exchange rate or the strategy of the next Xbox. If this scenario is confirmed, French players can aim for a PS6 price around €700 for the digital model, or even a little more if Sony limits losses.