Forum - View topicNEWS: Sony Raises Price of PlayStation 5, PlayStation Portal Peripheral
|
Goto page 1, 2 Next Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
PilotPayback
 Posts: 139 |
|
|||
|
i'm glad i bought a ps5 when i did...because almost a thousand for a ps5 pro (which doesn't even come with a disc drive) is like, rotfl levels of funny. either the used market is going to suddenly gain popularity, or gaming will be inaccessible to a margin of people.
don't know which is the right path.. honestly, jason schreier summed it up best..."it sucks to work in the gaming industry right now". there's a lot i don't understand with sony right now... Last edited by PilotPayback on Sat Mar 28, 2026 8:33 am; edited 2 times in total |
||||
|
||||
|
JustMonika
Posts: 1570 |
|
|||
|
I'm good with my Steam Deck OLED and don't need anything else because it already does and plays everything.
|
||||
|
||||
Glordit
 Posts: 1187 |
|
|||
|
Sony: We don't want our games on other platforms. You need to buy a PS5 if you want to play our games.
Also Sony: $900 PS5 Pro. |
||||
|
||||
|
NickCMedia
Posts: 48 |
|
|||
|
This is why I planned on getting a used PS5 (most likely Slim). Besides, what good can an already-extremely-expensive-since-release PS5 Pro do that the cheaper regular PS5 and a Slim model can't?
|
||||
|
||||
whiskeyii
 Posts: 2466 |
|
|||
|
Considering how most games are *designed* around the PS5 Pro, that’s an insane asking price in any economy, let alone this one.
|
||||
|
||||
enurtsol
 Posts: 15209 |
|
|||
|
That's what happens where there's no competition
Where there's competition, there's a check on prices |
||||
|
||||
|
enurtsol
Posts: 15209 |
|
|||
It can't play games that require kernel-access anti-cheats, and it struggles with new games where GPUs with =<8GB VRAM struggles |
||||
|
||||
AiddonValentine
 Posts: 2949 |
|
|||
|
Well, at least it isn't 450, right? In all seriousness, this kind of crap because of what's going on in DC is ridiculous, not helped by AI bros still insisting they can turn it around just as investments start going sideways and projects are scrapped. Gonna be rough for a bit
Last edited by AiddonValentine on Sat Mar 28, 2026 6:30 pm; edited 1 time in total |
||||
|
||||
|
Alphael
Posts: 74 |
|
|||
I assume those two decisions are linked. There was little reason to buy a PlayStation anymore with all the games being on PC now so increasing the price would just be a death knell. If they go back to making things exclusive then the die-hard Sony game fans wont have a choice... although honestly I think those fans would be someone who already owns a PS5 anyway. Not sure how many people who want a PS5 don't already own one. But I assume Sony gets a cut of the sales of the PS5 versions of game so if that's the only version then it's something. Now let's see if Microsoft throws away the perfect set-up Sony just did and does something self-inflicting themselves. |
||||
|
||||
|
BadNewsBlues
Posts: 7199 |
|
|||
Even in 2026 there are still games that are not in fact on PC while many games that would’ve been PC exclusive are on console.
Lol this would require everything involving the Xbox from the launch of the original in 2001 to actually have made Microsoft profit. Them doing anything at this juncture won’t make up for all the cancelled games, layoffs, buying up Activision & Bethesda, jacking up Game Pass, the failure of the Xbox One and Windows 11 being shat on by almost everybody for some reason. |
||||
|
||||
|
AiddonValentine
Posts: 2949 |
|
|||
There are many reasons this is silly, but the idea it's because Sony has no competition is laughable. |
||||
|
||||
Top Gun
 Posts: 5294 |
|
|||
|
I never saw a compelling case to buy a PS5 before, and I sure as hell don't see one now.
|
||||
|
||||
|
jdnation
Posts: 2499 |
|
|||
|
This is not just some Sony thing.
This is not even a "lack of competition" thing. Sony wants the PS5 to be as cheap as possible so that more people spend money buying 3rd party games, microtransactions, and subscriptions and go through PSN for apps and metadata. Sony understandably doesn't want to eat enormous costs manufacturing the console as they learnt the hard way with PS3. The Pro is the only model sold at a premium aimed at the minority who care that much about fidelity. The base PS5 is intended to move as quickly as possible. Prices of electronics are up because: - Global Logistics got screwed when world governments panicked and instituted draconian lockdowns. - Inflated the currencies by artificially printing more to lend and purchase and pay people to lockdown and more. - Gamble their economies on big tech and AI which are now "too big to fail." - AI will be the most disruptive technology that can literally make or break companies and countries' dominative standings worldwide, economically and militarily. So everyone must by necessity stake their position at the top. Hence the big demand for limited quantities of electronic components. - Another US-led misadventure in the Middle East has now disrupted oil logistics which now seriously compound manufacturing problems as even the plastic components that go into your console and the cost of energy and other market disruptions and scrambles to do trade in anything other than the US dollar means the dollar gets devalued and component costs grow. PC manufacturers are already raising prices. Even Nintendo is reported to be seeing sluggish US sales, and it's possible they'd be forced to raise prices on top of that. I expect big price shocks from Microsoft and Valve's next offerings. If Sony expects to release any PS6, they are daft. Frankly, the 3rd rise in PS5 prices is simply one canary in the global coalmine. Things are BAD and getting worse to the point that videogames really really won't matter. |
||||
|
||||
|
enurtsol
Posts: 15209 |
|
|||
Here's the current prices: 
Guess where there's competition 
Notice the place where there's competition (US) vs. the places with absence (UK and EU) - guess which places are getting screwed And here's Japan: Xbox Series S 512GB - ¥44,578 Xbox Series X - ¥66,978 PS5 Digital - ¥89,980 PS5 - ¥97,980 PS5 Pro - ¥137,980 |
||||
|
||||
residentgrigo
 Posts: 2766 Location: Germany |
|
|||
|
I bought mine dirt cheap on eBay in 2024 and made do with my PS4 Pro and Switch + PC till then, as cross-gen refused to stop. A good console but it is what it is.
Competition didn´t stop Xbox and Nintendo from raising prices and let´s not even talk about the PC market. First Covid, then the AI bubble that finally started to burst in 2026 and who knows where the Iran War is going. Last edited by residentgrigo on Sat Mar 28, 2026 10:12 pm; edited 1 time in total |
||||
|
||||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group