Sony is raising PS5 prices by $100 in April
adrianhon
15 points
8 comments
March 27, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
eigenspace
I'm surprised it took them this long. They must have had an extremely large stockpile of PS5s, or just a large willingness to lose margings when they refused to raise prices in the USA (but raised them outside of the USA!) in response to the tariffs, and then even held steady when RAM prices went crazy. My guess is that this is because the USA was the last holdout region for the Xbox having any degree of market penetration, so they kept prices there low in order to totally kill the Xbox, and have now decided that it's time to start recovering those lost margins.
doom2
Don't console prices typically go down over the lifetime of a console? For example, the PS4 launched at $399 on 2013. By 2015 it was $350 or lower.