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PlayStation 6 Bill of Materials Is Now Very Close to the Dreaded $1,000 Line, But a Delay Still Isn’t Likely

A PlayStation 6 console on a pedestal with glowing blue accents is featured beside the 'PS6 PlayStation.6' logo.

Almost exactly three months ago, renowned AMD leaker Kepler_L2 claimed that Sony’s current BoM (bill of materials) for the upcoming PlayStation 6 console was around $760, thus floating the possibility that the console could be priced at $699 with an initial subsidy from the Japanese corporation. Fellow leaker Moore’s Law Is Dead reported a very similar BoM ($743) just days later. However, the component crisis is worsening almost weekly. We’ve seen that Valve was forced to launch its Steam Machine at $1049, about $300 more than the price it originally targeted, and Microsoft also had to substantially increase the pricing […]

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