Will Buying a PS6 Bankrupt You? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 10.19.26
October 19, 2026
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5 min read"At this rate, the next gen may not even release till '28, and when it does, north of a grand is the floor." That warning from an industry analyst set the tone for Monday's Kinda Funny Games Daily, which returned after the studio's Top 100 Games of All Time event to find the hosts, Tim Gettys and Andy Cortez, staring down a future where the PS6 might cost more than a thousand dollars before you even buy a game. The episode covered a handful of major developments, but the dominant theme was unmistakable: the economics of console gaming are shifting in ways that feel irreversible, and the forces driving prices up—AI data center demand, memory shortages, and corporate strategy—are the same ones reshaping how games are made and who gets to make them.
The $680 Memory Bill and the $1,000 Console Floor
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:04) **PS6 Memory Costs Could Push Console Past $1,000** - Leaked insider report claims RAM and NAND alone will cost Sony over $680 per PS6, signaling a massive price hike for next-gen hardware.
- 2 (06:02) **PS6 Frame-Generation Patent Hints at Sony's AI Future** - A new Sony patent describes a frame-gen system that uses controller input data to predict and generate interpolated frames, possibly enabling multi-frame generation.
- 3 (10:04) **GTA 6 Dating Mechanics Spark Real-World Cheating Debate** - A British poll found 6% of adults consider dating in a video game cheating, and 90% of the rest wouldn't be okay with it, as Rockstar deepens the Jason-Lucia relationship system.
- 4 (11:38) **Konami President Defends Human Chemistry Over AI** - Hadeki Hayakawa argues in Konami's business report that generative AI won't significantly change game development because the real magic is in human creative teams.
- 5 (14:34) **Mario 64's "L is Real 2401" Mystery Solved by Computational Analysis** - Programmer Mochi64 used an open-source algorithm to decode the infamous fountain plaque, concluding it reads "Eternal Star" and "We Hope So," not the Luigi hint fans believed for 30 years.
- 6 (17:42) **Wii News Roundup: X Button Launch, Liquid Swords Bankruptcy, and More** - A quick-fire segment covers new indie media site X Button from ex-IGN staff, a studio bankruptcy, and several game updates.
- 7 (21:52) **You're Wrong Corrections and Super Chat Finale** - Tim corrects a Top 100 mistake about the Halo announcer, and the hosts read emotional birthday and memorial super chats from the community.
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Show Notes
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Run of Show -
00:00:00 - Start
00:04:00 - PlayStation 6’s memory costs alone exceed $680 per console, it’s claimed
00:14:09 - PlayStation 6 Will Likely Have Sony's Own Take on Frame Generation, According to Latest Patent
00:22:19 - SuperChats
00:23:55 - Ads
00:26:31 - A Lot of People Think Dating in GTA 6 Is Cheating
00:33:03 - Konami boss says AI can’t replace the human chemistry behind great games
00:39:15 - Computational analysis ‘solves’ what Mario 64’s infamous plaque says, and it’s not ‘L is Real 2401’
00:45:00 - Wee News!
00:49:03 - SuperChats & You‘re Wrong
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