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RAMeggedon Comes for Gaming as Nintendo and PlayStation Mull Price Hikes and Delays
The AI-driven surge in high-bandwidth memory demand has caused DRAM prices to jump 75% in a month, forcing Sony, Nintendo, and Valve to adjust product timelines and pricing.
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Global Memory Chip Shortage Could Delay Next PlayStation
Sony's next PlayStation may be slipping further into the future—and you can thank AI's memory binge. A global crunch in basic memory chips, the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) that sits inside everything from phones to cars, is rippling through the tech world and forcing some hard calls. Sony...
How a PlayStation 6 Delay Could Impact Gran Turismo 8
The anticipated timeline for the next Gran Turismo game looks to be a little more in doubt, with reports over the last few days suggesting that Sony is pushing back the launch of the PlayStation 6 console on which it was expected to debut. Like many of you, we’ve been expecting Polyphony Digital’s development of the next Gran Turismo to be running close to Sony’s production plans for the next PlayStation, and have had the back end of 2027 lightl…
The next generation of Playstations could come much later than expected: According to reports, Sony is not planning the PS6 until 2028/2029 - a market launch towards the end of 2029 would be possible. Among other reasons are the storage crisis.
Bad news for players in 2026, because the chipsets crisis is beginning to claim its first victims.
Does a ‘RAMmageddon' threaten? Artificial intelligence drives chip demand and prices with possible impacts on Sony and Nintendo's and Nintendo's schedules and pricing policies. For months, the issue of ‘chip crisis' has been a standard component of quarterly numbers and analyst switching conferences: because the unbridled computing hunger in AI data centers has prompted Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta & Co. to stock up on memory chips – …
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