PS5 Price Increases Start, Live Now at Some Retailers

How many times has it gone up now and what was the original launch prices? I forgot.

Why am I not the slightest bit surprised that Game were first in on the action when it comes to price increases

Yesterday I went into Smyth's to pick up a Disc drive for my Pro on click and collect... there were 3 people in the queue before me all picking up PS5's before the price hike..... reminded me of the start of the COVID lockdown when everyone was stocking up on Pasta, Beers and toilet rolls

I did not get my paycheck yet and the price hike is here. This is the perfect time for me to proceed with the purchases.

@Czar_Khastik exactly! All of your debt will miraculously disappear when you die anyway because you can't shake down dead people.

Debt collectors hate the deceased because they figured out how to be beat them.

@AnginaPectoris better still just take out as many loans as possible and fill you credit cards before going off the radar for 6 years. When you reappear your debt is statue barred

@Boxmonkey true. But being dead also means being able to cast away your fleshly prison and finally being able to join the skeleton army.

Make no bones about it with joining the skeleton army. No guts and all the glory.

Kinda wish I’d picked up a Portal at Sam’s Club for $100 a month ago now.

Oh, well. I never use my Switch 2 in portable mode, I’d probably never use the Portal anyway.

Smyths hasn't increased the price yet (£400 for digital, £450 for disc, £690 for Pro, £200 for Portal). Figured I'd bring it up for those who still want to get it at the cheaper cost.

I know Sammy said the price of the DVD Attachment would not increase in price but I was also in Smyth's yesterday there was no panic buying in there Game or Argos I checked online there were 7 available there are 6 today from my corner of the World there is no panic The disc attachment was worth the money.

Some retailers will probably keep old pricing in place until they need to restock. Pro’s probably don’t sell that quickly so we might see them stay at old prices for longer than expected

If the retailers already have the stock, why not sell it through at that price if you can, then when they need to buy more, buy less at the marked up price to prevent excess supply

I got a great deal on a brand new PS5 Pro and disc drive, so ended up just biting the bullet and going for it before the hike. That's it for me now, just gonna ride the PS5 Pro wave and view next gen from afar and see how the industry pans out.

@CutchuSlow If I remember rightly, it was £450 for a disc version and £360 for a non-disc version.
Shortly after both got a £30 price hike for "exchange rate" reasons - unless you were in PS homeland of the USA. Never saw it go lower when the exchange rate were more favourable.
Now we're already £90 over those overpriced hikes for hardware that's struggling with some more modern releases.

@CutchuSlow the original launch ps5 was 499 usd, the original digital was 399.

Lmfao 6 years later and here we are...

@Yousef- Not really. The PS3 was £700/$900 at launch adjusted for inflation. We've been here before.

A UK based article in £££'s about price increases on PushSquare?!

Console sales - PS5/Pro at least - are about to go off a cliff…

@Nightcrawler71 people keep saying that , but weren't people over paying for it at launch just to have one? honestly i don't see it slowing down any time soon with gta 6 coming out ( assuming it actually comes out).

@Number09 “The disc attachment was worth the money.”
Definitely. If a person has any tolerance whatsoever to use discs, even just some of the time, then the disc drive pays for itself— picking up just a few games for $10 cheaper than the digital version, and then maybe even selling some of those games back on the second hand market… you’ve recouped the $80 investment after just a few games. For most of us who buy multiple games a year, probably break even on the thing within a few weeks! 😅

@Marquez wait a few weeks. I’m going to do the same eventually but I’ll probably sell it myself rather than being ripped off by cex

@Th3solution My only worry was the noise but once the games are loaded I can't hear it and like you pointed out there are other benefits.

At least in Greece you can avoid 24% tax if you buy like a business not an individual.

@Marquez CEX have increased the amount you get by £20 since the price increase was announced (was 175 now 195).
I might wait a while and see if that increases again but doubtful.
I do hate selling things on ebay etc though especially something this heavy and costly so if anyone has any postal or sale tips on best companies and sites to use?

Argos has upped the prices for the base consoles, but not yet the Pro.

Smyths is still selling all consoles at a discount.

@Number09 Yeah, you’re right— the drive does make some noise and maybe a smidge louder than my base PS5 with a native disc drive, but it’s not too bad and like you say, after the initial spinning and confirmation with the disc, the disc drive just shuts down while playing the game from the hard drive data file.

I will be curious to see if there is a mad rush to buy PS5s when GTA6 comes out. I’m wondering if some of that GTA5 base has moved on or is happy to stick with 5.

95m PS5s sold, 35m XBX’s sold- let’s say that’s 110m modern console owners some owning both consoles. Probably less.

GTA5 sold 225m copies. Is half the install base going to wait for it on PC, or is this a big warning sign for triple A developers?

I’ll be interested to see the sales for March.

base ps5 and ps5 pro at best buy still have not gone up in price as of today..

@KundaliniRising333 then add up how many people spent way more then that on reselling sites lol

All of which makes eBay the place to buy less than the increase.

@dskatter Ya, I never play NS1 in handheld, and won't with either NS2. Which makes the NS2's main feature gonzo, and makes straight forward PS5 ports that much less interesting.

Devs have to utlize HD Rumble 2 in unique ways, NS2's 9-Axis Gyro or Dual-HD Rumble 2-Gyro mouses to make the ports more unique and stand out, otherwise I'm just getting the better looking and performing version, and that's on PS5 with recent releases like RE Requiem, Pragmata, Reanimal etc.

Only one retailer in the uk has raised the price to £790 (very) all the others still have them listed at old prices. I guess Sony has a ton of stock out there that isn’t moving quickly enough even at the lower price.

@AnginaPectoris I'm going a bit off topic here but over here in the UK if you pass away your next of kin get shaken down for unpaid debts. My mother passed a couple of years ago and we had to pay back her debt and the extra debt the council added via council tax they decided to charge her for a single person occupancy (it appears ghosts don't get a pass either.) Seeing as she was disabled and didn't pay council tax anyway it was quite a bizarre situation to be in. Anyway onwards and upwards just like the PlayStation price hikes 👍

I hope controllers dont go up because I'm on my fifth or sixth one and it, unsurprisingly, has stick drift. These things can't last a year without drift and it's insane. My latest one is the anniversary edition and it's hilariously drifting in all 4 directions.

I was debating if i should trade in my ps5 for the pro since i do have some extra funds but after this increase thats totally out the question. I barely have time to game nowdays so investing almost 900 for a console is just crazy work.

Bought a Pro Tuesday on PS Direct. Just checked Amazon US today, and they have no new Pro inventory, and the resellers are selling them for $889.

you can still buy the base ps5 and ps5 pro at best buy without the price gone up yet..i guess they are waiting for the stores to run out of stock before they raise the price..