Thursday, August 25th 2022
PlayStation 5 Prices Up 3-24% Globally
Prices of the Sony PlayStation 5 (PS5) entertainment system are on the boil globally. The Verge tabulated prices across 7 key regions for the console, and found that they've been adjusted by anywhere between 3% to 24%, with the worst hikes hitting SCE's home market of Japan. The PS5 is available in two variants—the standard one with a Blu-ray drive, and a Digital Edition variant that lacks it, and relies on the Internet to download and play new games. The latter is significantly cheaper.
Canada sees the mildest price hikes, ranging between +3% for the standard version, and +4% for the Digital-only version. Australia, Mexico, and the United Kingdom are next, with price-hikes ranging between 7% to 9%, depending on the model. China and Europe (the Eurozone) see exactly 10% to 12% hikes. The worst hit, as we mentioned, is Japan, with 21% to 24% hikes. The specific MSRPs for the two variants are tabulated below. Interestingly, Interestingly, SCE hasn't finalized a price-hike for the US, but you can bet that they're coming.
Sources:
The Verge, VideoCardz
Canada sees the mildest price hikes, ranging between +3% for the standard version, and +4% for the Digital-only version. Australia, Mexico, and the United Kingdom are next, with price-hikes ranging between 7% to 9%, depending on the model. China and Europe (the Eurozone) see exactly 10% to 12% hikes. The worst hit, as we mentioned, is Japan, with 21% to 24% hikes. The specific MSRPs for the two variants are tabulated below. Interestingly, Interestingly, SCE hasn't finalized a price-hike for the US, but you can bet that they're coming.
34 Comments on PlayStation 5 Prices Up 3-24% Globally
Anyone else think Sony is completely braindead by not raising the price to begin with?
Out of 64 offerings there are only 16 not from eBay. And they aren't sold out because of ripoff pricing.Over here the Xbox Series X goes for around 150€ less over the table. ;) And yet the PS5 keeps outselling the xBox.
But they are way down compared to the last gen sale numbers, lol.
Minus the US, of course.
Sales I believe the Series are outselling the PS5s, probably the Series S that's making the difference.
PS4 was such a low price, they were perpetually out-of-stock on sites like Amazon; ps5 is looking to continue that tradition, thanks to the complete lack of killer apps from MS!
Odd the united states isn't getting an increase in price feel bad for people in other countries still trying to get one.
Right now with basically both high end console offerings selling out almost instantly it probably doesn't matter though.
A slow death of Playstation is inevitable if current plans continues.