Sony announces major PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal price increases starting April 2

64bitmodels · Mar 31, 2026

Lumstar said:
(massive worlds, full voice acting, cinematic soundtracks and animations, etc)

We don't need nor want that shit. Just stop spending so much money on video games. Minecraft's the most popular video game and it didn't need any of that shit.

LeyendaV · Mar 31, 2026

Only 120 comments? If Nintendo were the ones doing this, the thread would have over 1k comments already

sheepwalker · Mar 31, 2026

LeyendaV said:
Only 120 comments? If Nintendo were the ones doing this, the thread would have over 1k comments already

Well Nintendo is no better at all... sadly we all know it is only a matter of time for their price increase announcement soon

lordofcombo · Mar 31, 2026

I blame you all guys.If you stop buying these shitty consoles sony would have not done this,how the fuck a lame console 6 years old can have its price go 30 percent up when i should have been cut by half?

VioletRose · Mar 31, 2026

64bitmodels said:
We don't need nor want that shit. Just stop spending so much money on video games. Minecraft's the most popular video game and it didn't need any of that shit.

Popularity does not mean good. It only means popular. For example, Justin Bieber has 89 million followers on Facebook. Alice in Chains has 5 million in comparison. So AiC should be more like Justin Bieber because he's leaps and bounds more popular? We don't even need bands like AiC because Bieber provides all we really need? Your "we don't need that because this other thing is popular" comparison means nothing.

lordofcombo said:
I blame you all guys.If you stop buying these shitty consoles sony would have not done this,how the fuck a lame console 6 years old can have its price go 30 percent up when i should have been cut by half?

So you don't understand economics whatsoever, or the actual reasons why this is happening. Not only with Sony, but with pretty much everything else as well. A quick Google search can help you out with that. Saying Sony wouldn't have done this if people quit buying their consoles is quite an uneducated and baseless opinion.

Marc_LFD · Mar 31, 2026

sheepwalker said:
Well Nintendo is no better at all... sadly we all know it is only a matter of time for their price increase announcement soon

They'll call the price increase "Variable Pricing".

handy333 · Mar 31, 2026

It is so funny to me that when a company releases some controversial info we argue with each other and the company just slides on through.

DiscostewSM · Mar 31, 2026

sheepwalker said:
Well Nintendo is no better at all... sadly we all know it is only a matter of time for their price increase announcement soon

Probably more likely than not that they'll do a price increase too, but I do think Nintendo is a better position with more wiggle room to deal with it. Their financials are very good, like having practically no debt (or at least compared to other game companies). Heck, they are soon to drop the price of digital for the US to match the difference it has been against physical in other regions. They could have done nothing to keep taking a few more bucks, but didn't.

Now, besides that, could the decision by Sony to make this change now have to do with their stockpile of components? Their system has been out for years, and sales had been slowing down, so they may not have felt a need to stockpile as many components over time. But with the whole AI situation, it's now harder to get those components without paying that much more. With Nintendo, they launched Switch 2 roughly 10 months ago, so they already needed to start with a large stockpiling of components.

Defective1Up · Mar 31, 2026

And then Google announces the AI memory optimizations and the RAM market falls off a cliff lol

Enjoy the overkill prices!

Jakeeenator · Mar 31, 2026

Hey at least I can comment here. Wild that PS5 prices keep going up as time goes on. So glad my brother and fiance got me ram for my PC upgrade in December.

lordofcombo · Mar 31, 2026

VioletRose said:
Popularity does not mean good. It only means popular. For example, Justin Bieber has 89 million followers on Facebook. Alice in Chains has 5 million in comparison. So AiC should be more like Justin Bieber because he's leaps and bounds more popular? We don't even need bands like AiC because Bieber provides all we really need? Your "we don't need that because this other thing is popular" comparison means nothing.

So you don't understand economics whatsoever, or the actual reasons why this is happening. Not only with Sony, but with pretty much everything else as well. A quick Google search can help you out with that. Saying Sony wouldn't have done this if people quit buying their consoles is quite an uneducated and baseless opinion.

That ignoramus BS is what you tiny brain cant comprehend. Unless you wanna say a 2018 developed architecture and 6 years old and a 7 to 5 nm SOC hasn't been profitable until today? You think a manufactured ps5 slim cost Sony more than 300 dollar? You think AMD still sells their soc at the same price than 2020? The console can be sold at 400 and be profitable. Stop glorifying Corporate greed.

Skv0ra · Mar 31, 2026

This just reminds me how I got my PS3 - refurbished via retailer I briefly worked at so with employee discount on top, otherwise it just wouldn't have happened. Nowadays - what even is used market?

Sony can go ahead and price hike all they want, since there's next to nothing exclusive to play besides GT7 anyway, and new pricing literally aligns with i7/2070 used laptops that out-potential any console.

VioletRose · Mar 31, 2026

lordofcombo said:
That ignoramus BS is what you tiny brain cant comprehend. Unless you wanna say a 2018 developed architecture and 6 years old and a 7 to 5 nm SOC hasn't been profitable until today? You think a manufactured ps5 slim cost Sony more than 300 dollar? You think AMD still sells their soc at the same price than 2020? The console can be sold at 400 and be profitable. Stop glorifying Corporate greed.

Thanks for confirming my comments as being accurate. You don't even understand removing the part of my comment that didn't pertain to you in your reply.

UltraAziz · Apr 1, 2026

Skv0ra said:
This just reminds me how I got my PS3 - refurbished via retailer I briefly worked at so with employee discount on top, otherwise it just wouldn't have happened. Nowadays - what even is used market?

Sony can go ahead and price hike all they want, since there's next to nothing exclusive to play besides GT7 anyway, and new pricing literally aligns with i7/2070 used laptops that out-potential any console.

the used market absolutely sucks nowadays, I looked around where I live and with a used ps5 and you'd only be saving like 50-60$ compared to new

ikynx · Apr 1, 2026

Lumstar said:
That doesn't really fly when the literal hardware components to manufacture the console have gotten that much more expensive.

not sure I'm getting your point. A corporation makes profit. Shareholders want ever more profit. When components get more expensive, even only maintaining same margins requires increasing price.

Maximo101 · Apr 1, 2026

Man, I'm kicking myself now... I should have bought 10,000 ps5's when they came out, and I'd be a millionaire selling them at the higher prices.

Oh well. :rofl2:

Jakeeenator · Apr 1, 2026

ikynx said:
not sure I'm getting your point. A corporation makes profit. Shareholders want ever more profit. When components get more expensive, even only maintaining same margins requires increasing price.

But then the issue is if the price keeps going up, then people will eventually stop buying. I know the PS5 sells (or at least sold) well. But raising prices on consumers multiple times wont always work.

Marc_LFD · Apr 1, 2026

Jakeeenator said:
But then the issue is if the price keeps going up, then people will eventually stop buying. I know the PS5 sells (or at least sold) well. But raising prices on consumers multiple times wont always work.

PS6 will be where it'll split the customers. Some will be willing to pay $1200 (or whatever it'll be) while others keep using their PS4/PS5 until there's a price reduction on it.

64bitmodels · Apr 1, 2026

VioletRose said:
Popularity does not mean good. It only means popular. For example, Justin Bieber has 89 million followers on Facebook. Alice in Chains has 5 million in comparison. So AiC should be more like Justin Bieber because he's leaps and bounds more popular? We don't even need bands like AiC because Bieber provides all we really need? Your "we don't need that because this other thing is popular" comparison means nothing.

I point to minecraft as a good example because it's a much simpler, cheaper, and easier game to develop. It doesn't take 6 year long development cycle, 6000 developers, and a 500 million dollar budget to make a good game. yes, a lot of game developers could be more like Minecraft in its simplicity.

Cut the fat. Get rid of the open worlds, get rid of the mo cap, famous actors, high detail graphics, licensed music, all that shit. Make a good-ass game that people find fun. Now all of a sudden the game doesn't need to sell 20 million copies just to recoup development costs.

VioletRose · Apr 2, 2026

64bitmodels said:
I point to minecraft as a good example because it's a much simpler, cheaper, and easier game to develop. It doesn't take 6 year long development cycle, 6000 developers, and a 500 million dollar budget to make a good game. yes, a lot of game developers could be more like Minecraft in its simplicity.

Cut the fat. Get rid of the open worlds, get rid of the mo cap, famous actors, high detail graphics, licensed music, all that shit. Make a good-ass game that people find fun. Now all of a sudden the game doesn't need to sell 20 million copies just to recoup development costs.

I can agree on cutting the high paid actors and licensed music to try keeping game costs down. As sick as I am of open worlds, I don't see that making any difference. High detail graphics are kinda mandatory to keep. No one wants all new AAA games to look like PlayStation 1/2/3 games. I think the majority want graphical advancements with each gen (except DLSS 5, lol).

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