Sony says the PS6 is on schedule. Speaking alongside the company's latest financial results, chief financial officer Lin Tao confirmed that work on the next console generation is "progressing as scheduled," per Push Square.

Tao also made clear the next platform ranks high on Sony's priority list: "For future growth, we have to attach great importance to our new platform," the CFO said, as reported by GamesRadar+.

The reassurance comes with real headwinds attached. GamesRadar+ notes PlayStation is contending with the industry-wide RAM shortage and actively balancing memory procurement — a meaningful constraint for a console whose performance targets depend heavily on fast, plentiful memory. Component scarcity has derailed console supply before; anyone who tried to buy a PS5 in its first two years remembers how that goes.

Sony is saying the right things: development on track, solid progress, platform treated as a growth pillar. No dates, specs, or pricing accompanied the update — this was an investor-facing status check, not a reveal. But with memory markets tight, the procurement balancing act Tao described may matter as much to the PS6's launch as anything happening in the devkit labs.