Memory shortages aren’t going to impact PS5 stock at least until the holiday season of 2026.
The shortages and rising costs of memory have the entire community worried about how these changes will affect prices. AMD has already begun raising GPU prices, NVIDIA has discontinued GPUs, and Nintendo stated it will “carefully evaluate” the situation. Now, Sony has revealed their strategy for the PS5.
PS5 Stock Safe For Holiday 2026 as Sony Secures Required RAM
According to a post by Genki_JPN on X (formerly Twitter), Sony’s CFO Lin Tao recently discussed the issues related to PS5 stock and memory shortages. Tao announced that the minimum amount of memory needed to maintain PS5 stock levels until the end of the holiday season in 2026 has been secured. She also shared strategies to tackle the RAM shortage.
Tao mentioned that negotiations with suppliers will continue. To minimize the impact of rising RAM costs, they are considering two strategies. First, they will prioritize monetizing their current install base. Second, they plan to further expand their revenue from software and network services.
PlayStation has indicated that PS5 sales are declining in the latter half of its life cycle; however, software revenue from the PlayStation Store has reached a record high, largely due to major third-party franchises and new hit releases.
In other news, memory and storage shortages have also led Valve to reassess the pricing of the Steam Machine. Additionally, PlayStation 5 has sold better than Switch 2 during the 2025 holiday season. What are your thoughts on PS5 stock not being impacted by RAM shortages until the end of the holiday season 2026? Leave your thoughts down in the comments, and join the official Insider Gaming Discord server.
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I assume when thry say “PS5 stock won’t be affected by RAM prices” that it means the price of the PS5.
But when I read that sentence without the rest of the article for context, that sentence/the headline of the article come off as if it is meaning the amount of PS5’S in stock won’t be effected.
LoL This article says that Sony has stated it has enough RAM to get through the rest of the year without having to increase the price… With one of their main strategies being, “prioritize monetizing their current install base.”
Uhhh I don’t like the sound of that haha.
So make sure the people that have already supported you pay you as much as possible so you don’t have to increase the price for the people that are possibly going to get a PS5 at the end of the generation… Yeah sounds like a great plan.
Also, they could have said that they have enough RAM to make PS5’s until 2030, but I still wouldn’t bet against them not raising the price of the console… especially when they are admitting that the PS5 is declining in sales in the same breath. If RAM keeps going up, they are going to raise the price of the console, even if they have stock. Why? Because the value of that stock will have increased. Sony has not really done anything overly generous when it comes to giving the consumer/player base any extra monetary value.
So PS6 should come out 2027 then no delay