Ex–PlayStation Exec Says True Innovation Would Be Making The PS6 Cheaper: ‘We Have Enough Power In The Machine’

PlayStation 6 is coming and it’s not coming cheaply. Sony is making “solid progress in preparing for the next-generation platform,” the company said last week , but its next-gen device is also reportedly likely to cost over $1,000 . Ex-PlayStation executive Shawn Layden would prefer the PS6 innovate on price rather than power. “I think we have enough power in the machine,” the former chairman of SIE Worldwide Studios told The Trophy Room in a recent interview . “The innovation needs to come not from making PS6 for $1,200–it’s to make another PS5 for $300.