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The global economic environment is a challenge that many of you around the world are no doubt experiencing. We’re seeing high global inflation rates, as well as adverse currency trends, impacting consumers and creating pressure on many industries. Based on these challenging economic conditions, SIE has made the difficult decision to increase the recommended retail price (RRP) of PlayStation 5 in select markets across Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), Asia-Pacific (APAC), Latin America (LATAM), as well as Canada. There will be no price increase in the United States.

The new RRPs below are effective immediately unless otherwise noted.*

  • Europe
    • PS5 with Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive – €549.99
    • PS5 Digital Edition – €449.99
  • UK
    • PS5 with Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive – £479.99
    • PS5 Digital Edition – £389.99
  • Japan (effective Sept. 15, 2022)
    • PS5 with Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive – ¥60,478 yen (including tax)
    • PS5 Digital Edition – ¥49,478 yen (including tax)
  • China
    • PS5 with Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive – ¥4,299 yuan
    • PS5 Digital Edition – ¥3,499 yuan
  • Australia
    • PS5 with Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive – AUD $799.95
    • PS5 Digital Edition – AUD $649.95
  • Mexico
    • PS5 with Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive – MXN $14,999
    • PS5 Digital Edition – MXN $12,499
  • Canada
    • PS5 with Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive – CAD $649.99
    • PS5 Digital Edition – CAD $519.99
While this price increase is a necessity given the current global economic environment and its impact on SIE’s business, our top priority continues to be improving the PS5 supply situation so that as many players as possible can experience everything that PS5 offers and what’s still to come.

Thank you for your continued support.

Couldn't throw in a free game download or a 3 months of ps+, just so it least doesn't seem so bad. Fuckin Sony
 
Meanwhile, the GPU shortage is over, so prices have come back down, aaaaaaaaaaaand Steam Deck production got ramped up, lol.

Shieeeeeet, man, even the PS3 didn't get a price hike. This is getting to be some Producers-tier insanity from Sony.
 
Pissmaster dijo:
Meanwhile, the GPU shortage is over, so prices have come back down, aaaaaaaaaaaand Steam Deck production got ramped up, lol.

Shieeeeeet, man, even the PS3 didn't get a price hike. This is getting to be some Producers-tier insanity from Sony.
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I get why they have done it and it's not Producers-tier insanity but because profit margin are lower to due to inflation, PS5 are going to sell no matter what case in point look at the resellers, so short sighted greed is the answer.

However this is such a bad look and is just bad press which they don't need, they didn't even do "hey the price is going up but you can now get one of this first party older ps5 games at no extra cost" to least make the new price seem that little bit less shitty at really no extra cost to sony if they are digital codes.

While the PS5 for now is still going to sell like hotcakes, do wonder if more people will now try to get a Xbox Series X over it.
 
Pay more for your next gen machine that shares most games with last gen hardware, genius.
 
IDanceonTrannyGraves dijo:
Lolol Imagine trying to justify a price increase when people can't even get them.
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Well... that's how it works. When demand far outpaces supply, the price increases. It's happened with everything else throughout the last 2 years of economic exceptionalism, hasn't it?

Especially in the context of borderline hyper-inflation across the globe. Especially in the context of exchange rates tanking, especially in Europe. When the PS5 came out, the Euro had just over 20% on the US dollar. Now, they're fucking matched. Frankly, Europe has especially got and is going to have much more pressing issues than price increases for a console.

This is the result of coof lockdownerism. The world really fucked itself for no reason.
 
Raging Capybara dijo:
This shit is selling as good as the WiiU, man. WTF are you talking about?
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PS5 sells out of every they can make and as of June at over 20 million, Wii U only did 13.56 million live time sales


If they were able to make more units, that number would be even higher. Lots of shit you can give Sony but that doesn't change the fact the PS5 is still selling out like crazy. Now in a year's time that could change but as of right now, what i said is very true.
 
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Product Placement dijo:
PS5 sells out of every they can make and as of June at over 20 million, Wii U only did 13.56 million live time sales


If they were able to make more units, that number would be even higher. Lots of shit you can give Sony but that doesn't change the fact the PS5 is still selling out like crazy. Now in a year's time that could change but as of right now, what i said is very true.
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We already went with the same argument with Marissa Moira several times in the past: the PS5 is the proof that you shouldn't ever rely on hardware unit sales alone as a metric for success, but game software sales should be taken account as well. And PS5 game sales don't match up with the current amount of PS5 units seemingly sold, as it has been shown with the Famitsu & Media Create charts in Japan. Even the official reports from Playstation for the global PS5 best-sellers were mediocre numbers.
 
BananaSplit dijo:
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We already went with the same argument with Marissa Moira several times in the past: the PS5 is the proof that you shouldn't ever rely on hardware unit sales alone as a metric for success, but game software sales should be taken account as well. And PS5 game sales don't match up with the current amount of PS5 units seemingly sold, as it has been shown with the Famitsu & Media Create charts in Japan. Even the official reports from Playstation for the global PS5 best-sellers were mediocre numbers.
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I was only talking about hardware , as was the poster who i replied to, Game sales is a whole another talk and hard to get numbers as they rarely report them now, last report I can find was from mid last year. I've no comment on game sales outside that and what you posted about sales for PS5 games in Japan is correct.

I mean at this point in it's life the Wii U hardware sales was around 7 million, far cry from Sony 20 million at the same point. So saying the Wii U even by it life ends number of 13.56 million is close to what the PS5 has done as of now is just pain dumb. You can criticize Playstation without making shit up, and they have lots of shit to criticize.
 
Raiken dijo:
Well it looks like I'm getting an Xbox series X.
PS5 was gripping my balls by letting me play my PS4 games on it/getting upgraded, but enough is enough. It has no exclusives worth getting it when you have a PS4, there is just no stock and the games are far to expensive.
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Just save up and build a PC, dude. Since I got mine built, I've been kinda neglecting a lot of my Series X and Switch. Most of Microsoft's library is already available on PC, and Sony's losing exclusives like crazy, and I'm beginning to wonder even if there'll BE another console generation after this one.
 
marvlouslie dijo:
Just save up and build a PC, dude. Since I got mine built, I've been kinda neglecting a lot of my Series X and Switch. Most of Microsoft's library is already available on PC, and Sony's losing exclusives like crazy, and I'm beginning to wonder even if there'll BE another console generation after this one.
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Same here. Built mine a little over a couple years ago, and it and my Switch have kept me plenty entertained. Ninty will still keep making hardware, no doubt in my mind about that. Sony and Microsoft? Not so sure.
 
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