If PS5 is not in place, it may be the last chance for the party. Sony announced yesterday evening that, under the continuing pressure of the global economic situation, the prices of the PS5 mainframe would be adjusted, including higher prices for PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal.
Effective 2 April, all PS5s will be sold at a price of at least $150 more than when they were first launched in 2020. The adjusted PS5 digital sale price was $600 and the PV sale price was $650. The top-up PS5 Pro was sold at $900, $200 more than when it was first launched in 2024. If you want to play a real game, an additional $80 is required for optical equipment.The new prices for the regions are as follows:National bank: PS5 standard edition RMB 4399/ digitized version RMB 3999 / PS5 Pro 6299 US$ 649.99 / digitized version: PS5 standard edition US$ 699.99 / € 599.99 / PS5 Pro 899.99 / PS Portal 249.99 English version: £ 569.99 / £ 519.99 / £ PS5 Pro 789.99 / £ PS5 PS Portal / £ 649.99 / € 599.99 / € / PS5 Pro 899.99 / € / PS Portal Standard edition: £ 97980 / £ 89980 / PS5 Pro 137980 EK/ PS Portal 399880In the case of Playstation Portal, the sale price for the American version will increase from $200 to $250. Since its sale about three years ago, Sony has been regularly updating the remote handheld and is now supporting a 1080-p game under a new “high-color” mode. However, PlayStation Portal is only a serial, and it is useless without PS5. The price increase would cost at least $850 for both.
In his bulletin, Sony stated: “We are well aware of the impact that price changes will have on a wide range of players, but, after careful assessment, we see this as a necessary step to ensure that we can continue to provide global players with innovative, high-quality game experiences.” The last price increase for PS5 was in 2025, when it was $550. Following the increase in the round, the start-up price of PS5 was set at $650 for Xbox Series X. Xbox Series X, PS5, which is more competitive, no longer has a price advantage. The most difficult for players is the price of PS5 Pro. Now it costs almost $1,000 to experience a game that supports PSSR graphic enhancement. When selling $750, PS5 Pro is the best value for money host for 3As. In the current economic situation, it is clear that an additional $200 will not be acceptable to players.
Sony’s so-called “quality game experience” may not include the dynamic pricing mechanism that is allegedly being piloted. It was reported that the mechanism would provide different discounts for the same game, depending on the consumption of different players at Playstation. In short, “kill well”, that is, higher-consumption players may see less discounts than less. Sony is currently not responding to dynamic pricing, but a number of players have noticed that different prices can be found in different accounts.
Sony’s current global price increase is likely to address a continuing memory shortage. The major memory semiconductor company has shifted its entire operation to the supply of high bandwidth memory (HBM) for the AI data centre, leading to a severe shortage of consumer-grade equipment and driving a surge in solid-state hard drives and memory prices. Since the end of last year, major PC and notebook manufacturers have been increasing their hardware prices on an ongoing basis. Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that, owing to a shortage of memory, Sony was considering postponing an unpublished generation of mainframes and that PS6 might not be available until 2028 or even later. No one seems to know how long the RAM shortfall will last, and President Choi Tae-jin of the leading RAM manufacturer, SK Hercules, has recently indicated that the company may not be able to meet the market’s demand for consumer-grade memory until around 2030.
This does not correspond to the “aging” trajectory of electronic products. Prices will become cheaper over time during the life cycle of previous hosts. Host manufacturers will also normally upgrade the machine in the medium term and upgrade the hardware to boost the promotion. Now, both start-up and upgrades cost hundreds of dollars more than when they were first sold. As the price of the game rose, the player was being turned away by his own love.