Sony has revealed that the price of the PS5 is going up across the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and has announced a price change to the PS5 Disc Drive which doesn’t exactly make things better.
The general cost of gaming is on the rise right now, and even though, comparatively, gaming has never been cheaper, it’s still incredibly tough to watch the price of games and their consoles climb up the ladder. After the Nintendo Switch 2 live Direct, it was difficult to take to the internet to discover just why Nintendo was playing coy with the console’s cost – it’s because it’s a hefty price to pay, especially as Mario Kart World may have overestimated itself with a £75 / $79.99 / AU$109 price tag.
It seems like it’s about to get tougher on the other side of the gaming aisle too, as it has been revealed that Sony is feeling the squeeze of the economy taking a nosedive. PS5 is getting a price hike in a number of regions, and we’re not going to sugarcoat it – it isn’t an insignificant change in cost. Here’s what you need to know about the incoming PS5 price increase.
Sony has released a new blog post that has revealed a number of PS5 price increases across Europe, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Here’s every amended price for the console:
Thankfully, the price of the PS5 Pro is unchanged. These are some pretty lethal price increases across the board for consumers, and it isn’t a nice change for players still hoping to step into the current generation of games.
There is something left for players, though, as PlayStation has revealed that there will be a PS5 Disc Drive price decrease to accommodate these changes, in hopes that players will be able to get stuck in by downgrading their purchase to a PS5 Digital Edition and upgrade later on. The new Disc Drive prices are as follows:
This news comes after Sony revealed on its Latin American blog that prices for the PS Plus service across Latin America will be increasing, leaving users to theorise that the rest of the world will suffer similar changes. It’s not a fun change to have to endure under any circumstance, but it seems as though Sony is really starting to suffer at the hands of the changing global economy. It likely won’t end here, either, so hold onto your hats – price changes for Xbox and across the PS Plus ecosystem could follow suit. Brace for impact.
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