Alby_da_Wolf on 29 October 2021
Sadly right now it wouldn't make sense anymore to make a PS4 SoC that allow to cut its price to cheap entry level system. Pandemic chip shortages and logistic problems really killed any plan to extend its life, unless economic recovery boost again chipmaking R&D and resources to levels allowing to make such SoC at a cost low enough to make the operation low-risk (older gen consoles, requiring much less computing power, are far easier to remake using emulation and cheap customisations of generic low-cost SoC, allowing Ninty, the most important company to make such replicas right now, to profit also on relatively low sales volumes, but probably PS4 power is still out of reach for the cheapest options).
