PS5 Price to Increase in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 13 April 2025 / 20,999 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced it is increasing the price of the PlayStation 5 console Europe, Australia and New Zealand starting April 14.
"With a backdrop of a challenging economic environment, including high inflation and fluctuating exchange rates, SIE has made the tough decision to raise the recommended retail price (RRP) of the PlayStation 5 console in select markets in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Australia and New Zealand," said Sony.
The price of the PlayStation 5 Pro will remain unchanged.
Here are the new prices:
- Europe
- PS5 Digital Edition – €499.99 (Was €449.99)
- (No pricing changes for the standard PS5 with Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive)
- UK
- PS5 Digital Edition – £429.99 (Was £389.99)
- (No pricing changes for the standard PS5 with Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive)
- Australia
- Standard PS5 with Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive – AUD $829.95 (Was AUD $799.95)
- PS5 Digital Edition – AUD $749.95 (Was AUD $679.95)
- New Zealand
- Standard PS5 with Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive – NZD $949.95 (Was NZD $899.95)
- PS5 Digital Edition – NZD $859.95 (Was NZD $769.95)
The price of the PS5 Disc Drive is getting a price decrease on April 14:
- Europe - €79.99 (Was €119.99)
- UK - £69.99 (Was £99.99)
- Australia - AUD $124.95 (Was AUD $159.95)
- New Zealand - NZD $139.95 (Was NZD $169.95)
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The PS5 price defies gravity. Bad look on Sony.
'Member when consoles use to cost 50% less in year five? I 'member.
This is such nonsense and greed, although to be fair, consumers are letting Sony get away with it, so no wonder Sony is doing this.
Same for all companies I am afraid, the average consumer never says no apparently.
Absolutely. I've been lookin at smartphone prices for years now and wondering how companies are able to charge those prices. I guess consumers were always so willing to pay such prices, and companies in other segments were just unable to find ways to raise their prices somehow.
Fuck this shit. Let Americans pay their own tarrifs.
This just tells you there are a lot more issues in the world than just Trump’s petty excuse at a trade war.
It's bullshit , Sony never mentioned increased cost for Playstations just general inflation and why I can't speak for the rest of these countries I expect it is similar to Australia with inflation continuing to drop and currency wise the AUD returned to normal levels after a short lived dip so it seems like we are seeing the usual predatory pricing that occurs when companies take advantage of uncertainty to disguise uncalled for rises.
Considering the PS5 with disc drive isn't going up in the UK/EU, I think it's more to do with them now deciding the big discount they were giving on the digital edition just isn't giving them enough of a benefit. There's no way the Digital Edition was £90 cheaper for them to make. Which is backed up by the disc drive add-on now being heavily discounted from what it was before. And while both versions are going up in AUS/NZ the price gap between the Digital/Disc version has been reduced.
One thing is for sure though, the pricing situation this whole generation has been awful. It's unheard of for consoles to raise in price years after release, yet it happened to both Xbox Series and PS5, and now the PS5 is raising for a 2nd time.
PlayStation's profits are high enough that they don't need to be raising the hardware price like this.
No price cut for the Switch in it's 8 year lifetime and price increases for the ps5/series, we really had it good when we got things like the PS2 cut to $99 and the Wii cut to $129 later in life didn't we.
The Switch base model decreased in price when the OLED became the premium pack.
Ah, you are right. It went from £279 to £259 here in the UK in 2021. Still it's a lot different than how pricing used to change in previous generations.
It never got a price cut in the USA however.
@Zippy
Ofc, we have no proof. But personally, I agree with you.
Actually, this was my very first thought right at release about the PS5 Digital official price gap compared to PS5 disc edition.
The PS5 Digital seemed to be subsidized in manufacturing, but these costs were offset by the disc drive's retail price in the first place, followed by digital games, etc.
A 79€ price tag for the disc drive was actually my very first comment about where I'd preferably saw the price tag for it in 2020. 119€ were way too high.
Anyway.
Despite the price bump now, I guess thanks to retail we luckily won't see Sony's official price tag for the PS5 Digital at any of them.
Or, if it all, only for a short period of time.
The funny thing is they have strong PS5 sales up against, declining Switch sales and the series X stuck in the mud and negativity surrounding Switch 2's pricing , but instead of scooting ahead with the wind firmly behind their back they decide to add ballast in the form of select rises .
HSHAHAHAHAHA...stop supporting these companies
What system you are playing on again?
Ps2, and you?
Stick with that! I'll go against them fighting the good fight! I'll let know when its good to go. Stay safe, bro
Dont worry i sadly will never go back to moder. Games, 99% is utterly crap
Let me guess, Inflation? Too many defended $70 games this gen, now reap the award.
Flood gates are now open for these brands to do whatever they like because they know people will defend it.
We can't go back in time, but I assure you, 1983 can happen again if they're not careful lol.
Price rises are weird. No gen has it gone like this and it can't just be inflation, greed, cost of parts, politics. It all leads to this.
What happened to lowering the cost of entry to sell more games? I thought that was the idea.
... god, we are 4.5 years in. This gen does not feel like it's even done anything. Just a blur.
Bruh, I thought the US was gonna get a price increase before the rest of the world did lol
Well, apparently not.
Probably waiting on the final tariff rates before implementing a price increase in the USA. The tariff information seems to change every few days, and they probably don't want to have to increase costs multiple times this year.
The tariffs on Vietnamese made products are at 10% atm (where the Switch 2 is manufactured), so I don't think they'll increase the price. In fact, I think a deal will be reached there soon.
everyone wants to raise prices during inflation and when people are doing it tougher. greedy cunts all of them. It's all about targets and keeping shareholders happy.
The greed is getting out of control
What the fuck? Sorry but legit, Why? The price of a disced slim is already around £430 if you can find it. Why would you ever buy digital and then the disc drive separate for nearly £100 more?
What is wrong with this gen? Consoles should be 40% cheaper by now. Is inflation, cost of parts and general companies wanting to make money causing this so much?
I spent $749 Australian on the Playstation 5 with Ultra HD Disc Drive on launch day. - Now it's $829?
Never have I owned a console that kept going up in value and price.
I hope the Europeans stop buying PS5 consoles, we are subsidising the US market.
Well thats just fruxkin great news ey!?
5+ years have past and the price ain't going down,
Ps5 is still selling like hotcakes though
Hey on the upside people that already bought a PS5 Digital Edition can upgrade to the Disc Drive cheaper.
On the downside: Everything else.
Next up...
$80 for PlayStation games
It's when you make record profits that times are economicaly very challenging.
Completely shameless.
It's looking more and more likely PS6 will be a repeat of PS3's early years.
PS3 Sony tried to add too much and the costs were too much, PS2 BC (which was hardware based), Cell, Harddrive, Blu-ray. It was a massive leap from what we had but we know the result.
I don't think PS6 will as a big of a leap, if the pro's price tag is anything to go by, but if they are going to warrant releasing another in just a few years, they've got to somehow make it better than the Pro but vastly cheaper than the current trend.
I don't see that happening and it's not just on their greed either. People compared pros power/hardware to current prices at the time and it was about right. How are they and manufacturers going to reduce costs?
EDIT: Outside of telling AI companies to stop buying up all the chips to create shite.
I don't see how PS6 can't be a leap...
Historically new consoles are the same price, or very very close, to the previous generation launch price... but that was when console prices would go down every year or so
I don't know how you can release a PS6 for the same price as a PS5 and it still be a generational leap in specs
Even NX1 to NX2 had a 50% price increase from base model to base model in price... $300 to $450, just to get a solid bump in specs
Whilst PS6 will be a leap it will suffer from diminishing returns. PS5 can confidently say it brought 60 FPS games back.
PS6 can make games look better, but it's getting more difficult to really improve on visuals these days. Especially considering that game budgets are not unlimited.
TLOU part 2 on PS5 for example is by today's standards still a good looking game. Hell even Horizon Forbidden West is among the better looking 60 FPS games this gen. I would say it's even a looker on PC. And whilst it looks quite a bit better on ultra, we shouldn't expect PS6 to come close to a 4080 super.
I suppose this means we get more money if we sell our PS5s.
I mean if Nintendo can get away with it, of course Sony will try as well. They are trying to see just how far they can pull our pants down before someone starts to scream (and you know full well some like it)
My theory is they know the US revenue are going to take severe a blow thanks to the tarrifs and are dividing the costs of losing revenue in US to other markets
It's kind of hard to not think that way at this point...
Prices in the US will be rising no doubt to pay for the tarrifs. The US govt is so chaotic under Trump that companies don't know what the tariffs are gonna be next week or next month. They are probably just waiting a bit to get some sense of where the tarrifs will settle before implementing the price increase in the US, so that they don't have to do a new price increase every month in the US. Meanwhile other countries don't have the economic chaos the US has now so they can go ahead and do price increase already in other places.
Make no mistake, Americans are definitely paying the tariff tax.
You have to remember that the US is the only country where Xbox is even semi competitive with the PS5, so I think they just can't raise it there above XBSX prices.
They didn't want to raise the price in the Americas right before NX2 releases... They could potentially loose quite a bit of ground
