Sony is contemplating delaying the debut of its subsequent PlayStation console to 2028 and even 2029 as a world scarcity of reminiscence chips — pushed by the AI business’s quickly rising urge for food for a similar DRAM that goes into gaming {hardware}, smartphones, and laptops — squeezes provide and sends costs surging, Bloomberg Information reported Monday.A delay of that magnitude would upend Sony’s rigorously orchestrated technique to maintain person engagement between {hardware} generations. The scarcity traces again to Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron diverting the majority of their manufacturing towards high-bandwidth reminiscence for Nvidia’s AI accelerators, leaving much less capability for standard DRAM. The price of one sort of DRAM jumped 75% between December and January alone. Nintendo can also be considering elevating the value of its Change 2 console in 2026.
