The rumour is two systems. Codename Canis that is a handheld/hybrid and Orion which is the home console.

Canis: 16 CU's RDNA5, 24GB Ram, 4x Zen6c and 2x Zen6 LP cores.

Orion: 52 CU's RDNA5, 30GB Ram, 7x Zen6c cores and 2x Zen6 LP cores.

Midgen upgrades are overpriced because they're designed to sell in low quantities to enthusiasts at respectable profit margins.

Series S was overall more advanced and poweful than a One X and it cost $200 less at launch ($500 vs $300). I think if it weren't for the RAM crisis (which may affect old and new consoles alike), PS6 digital would be notably cheaper to buy than a PS5 Pro.

And since PS6 is also launching in handheld form, Sony may offer a VitaTV-esque version of the handheld, which would act like their "Series S". That would be weaker than the Pro at almost all tasks, but it can be $300 cheaper and will mainly sell to remaining PS4 players and people looking for a "cheap" console with a neat form factor.

Still, it's a shame that Sony targeted 2027. Even without the RAM troubles, I would've gone with better specs for 2028 or 29. PS5 and especially PS5 Pro should remain decent platforms to game on for many more years. I don't understand the rush.

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Another thing PS6 has going for it (against the current PS5 Pro) is that Sony can launch it with 1TB or even 512 GB storage (like Series S). The Pro comes with a standard 2TB SSD. Compression technology improvement and a focus on RT/PT could also lead to game file sizes getting smaller.

Sony will have no need to keep the price down if the other option is paying $1000+ on a Xbox PC.

My guess would be that the PS6 will cost $700 and there will only be a discless version of it, with support to add a disc drive like the PS5 Slim and Pro. Should have a bundle of it plus the disc drive for $750 for convenience plus a small discount ($20). I do think the PS6 will ship with a 2tb SSD as the only option tho, but would like to see a 1tb version for $650 (or even $600 as they cost about $100 now), they should have done the same for the PS5 Pro.

I think the Xbox Helix will cost $1100 so asking $700 for a PS6 will look like a blessing, Sony won't eat basically any loss over it from day one, $50 tops if they want to have a round number like I'm thinking.

$700 for a PS6 that is 3x stronger than a PS5 Pro, has access to PSSR 2 (they are purposedly not calling the PS5 Pro current upgrade now PSSR 2 to save it for marketing) with Path Tracing, comes with the Dualsense 2, and the benefit of being the primary system games are developed for, costing what the PS5 Pro launched at despite this huge price increases and it having even better SSD and RAm, doesn't sound bad at all IF you are willing to pay $700 in the first place (won't have a similar choice nowhere near that price point otherwise tho).

It'll definitely price out a lot of people, but sadly there won't be where to run off to, so I think if it doesn't reach $800 it still look like the best deal around by far.

Sony will have no need to keep the price down if the other option is paying $1000+ on a Xbox PC.

My guess would be that the PS6 will cost $700 and there will only be a discless version of it, with support to add a disc drive like the PS5 Slim and Pro. Should have a bundle of it plus the disc drive for $750 for convenience plus a small discount ($20). I do think the PS6 will ship with a 2tb SSD as the only option tho, but would like to see a 1tb version for $650 (or even $600 as they cost about $100 now), they should have done the same for the PS5 Pro.

I think the Xbox Helix will cost $1100 so asking $700 for a PS6 will look like a blessing, Sony won't eat basically any loss over it from day one, $50 tops if they want to have a round number like I'm thinking.

$700 for a PS6 that is 3x stronger than a PS5 Pro, has access to PSSR 2 (they are purposedly not calling the PS5 Pro current upgrade now PSSR 2 to save it for marketing) with Path Tracing, comes with the Dualsense 2, and the benefit of being the primary system games are developed for, costing what the PS5 Pro launched at despite this huge price increases and it having even better SSD and RAm, doesn't sound bad at all IF you are willing to pay $700 in the first place (won't have a similar choice nowhere near that price point otherwise tho).

It'll definitely price out a lot of people, but sadly there won't be where to run off to, so I think if it doesn't reach $800 it still look like the best deal around by far.

AI emulator isn't a thing.

You need to remember that a LOT of resources are dumped into chasing resolution and framerates.

Portables by their very nature are a massive compromise on those fronts.

It would be fine. Graphics will be fine. Engines and graphics are scalable.

Xbox One X had 1TB (HDD), Series S had 512GB.

Unless Sony wants to position the "standard PS6" as an enthusiast device, why would they want to go for 2TB as the only option? This makes no sense in a market where NAND prices are significantly increasing. Reducing SSD size is an immediate and simple solution. They recently reduced standard PS5's storage from 1TB to around 825GB (which is the original PS5 storage size).

Because game sizes are increasing, my OG PS5 couldn't hold 5 games on it right now when I wanted to move Ghost of Yotei back to it to play the Legends update, I had to move Gran Turismo 7 to the extra drive, it literally is holding 4 games right now and I can't move GT7 back into it.

I would like to see an one 1tb model as an option but I think Sony won't do it to avoid people complaining about having buy an extra drive on top of the already very expensive purchase AND possibly the extra disc drive when they have 6 games and already can't fit all of them there.

It would still be better to have the option but I do think Sony will want to avoid that.

And yet PS5 literally got a size reduction recently as I noted.

They should release multiple options to see which one has the most demand, then phase out the less popular option if it causes any logistics issues. There will always be complainers no matter what they do, but forcing consumers to go for the expensive 2TB model is bound to generate more complaints than giving them more options to choose from.

Sony will have no need to keep the price down if the other option is paying $1000+ on a Xbox PC.

My guess would be that the PS6 will cost $700 and there will only be a discless version of it, with support to add a disc drive like the PS5 Slim and Pro. Should have a bundle of it plus the disc drive for $750 for convenience plus a small discount ($20). I do think the PS6 will ship with a 2tb SSD as the only option tho, but would like to see a 1tb version for $650 (or even $600 as they cost about $100 now), they should have done the same for the PS5 Pro.

I think the Xbox Helix will cost $1100 so asking $700 for a PS6 will look like a blessing, Sony won't eat basically any loss over it from day one, $50 tops if they want to have a round number like I'm thinking.

$700 for a PS6 that is 3x stronger than a PS5 Pro, has access to PSSR 2 (they are purposedly not calling the PS5 Pro current upgrade now PSSR 2 to save it for marketing) with Path Tracing, comes with the Dualsense 2, and the benefit of being the primary system games are developed for, costing what the PS5 Pro launched at despite this huge price increases and it having even better SSD and RAm, doesn't sound bad at all IF you are willing to pay $700 in the first place (won't have a similar choice nowhere near that price point otherwise tho).

It'll definitely price out a lot of people, but sadly there won't be where to run off to, so I think if it doesn't reach $800 it still look like the best deal around by far.