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Former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden said on The Trophy Room podcast that Sony's real innovation opportunity is cutting the PS5's price to $300 rather than building a more powerful, pricier PS6. He noted the PS5 is unusual among consoles for rising in price over time, with the standard model now at $649 and the Digital Edition at $599, both well above their launch prices.
According to FlatpanelsHD, Sony's UBP-X700/K will be its last 4K Blu-ray player, and the company plans to phase out disc-based media by 2028. This means the next PlayStation console, the PS6, will not support physical game discs.
Leaker Kepler_L2 says Nvidia's next mainstream GPU, likely called the RTX 6060, may not launch until 2029 due to ongoing DRAM and NAND supply constraints tied to AI data center demand. The same shortages are reportedly already delaying the rumored RTX 50 Super lineup and pushing the full RTX 60 series back to around 2028.
Leaker Kepler_L2 says Sony and Microsoft have already taped out the graphics chips for the PlayStation 6 and the next Xbox (codenamed Helix), citing theoretical figures of 40 TFLOPs and 56 TFLOPs respectively. Both chips are expected to use AMD's RDNA 5 architecture, though the leaker raised the claims specifically to warn against comparing consoles by TFLOPs alone.
Leaker Kepler_L2 claims AMD's upcoming RDNA 5 graphics architecture will include its own neural lighting technology, similar to Nvidia's DLSS 5. Because next-gen consoles are expected to use AMD chips, this feature could bring neural rendering to the PS6 and the next Xbox rather than staying limited to high-end PC cards.