PS5 Price to Increase in the US on August 21 Due to 'Challenging Economic Environment' - News

So they didn't want to eat the costs of the tariffs, huh. Who would have thought...

Is America great yet?

I'm sure this is all part of the master plan to make America great again!

Any day now, Sony will abandon Japan, move into the Rust Belt, and start stamping out PlayStations in Detroit. Forget being Japanese - PlayStations will now be proudly American!

Just as everything Romulus touched became Rome, everything under this plan will magically become...America. The next PlayStation won’t be White like the PS5, Black like the PS2/PS3, or even Grey like the original - it’ll be Red, White, and Blue. Truly the future we were promised!

No? This is all a mad hallucination? Well fukith me.

Thanks for nothing, Adolf Tariff.

And the Cheetoh-in-Chief strikes yet again…

Trumps tariffs strike again.

But...But...But everyone said PS5 would drop in price because Sony was "so far ahead of the competition" lmao
Glad I already have 2, shame for anyone who was still on the fence

I swear people forget that the PS5 launched at $399 for the Digital, Literally gone up $100 since launch

I don't think PS5 will pass PS4 now

Hahahahahah. This genn is beyond horrible

I've got a new video discussing the PS5 price increase in the US!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DZ54JHO310

We all knew this was coming.

Shameful to see it getting constant price bumps everywhere, USA was just the last place for it to happen.

Sony definitely wants to keep making decent money on hardware too, PS6 price should follow in line, sadly.

This is happening to every single product, btw, since the tariffs are all-encompassing. These are just the ones we get news about.

I'm sure this is somehow Hilary Clinton's fault.

Nintendo will be next... they already adjusted the price of the original Switch. Of course I blame Trump, but I also blame the Republicans in Congress for not standing up to him.

11.1% increase on the Digital which was already up 12.5% since the original launch digital edition.

This truly is the worst gaming gen for console pricing. I bought mine long ago but anyone who was waiting for the exclusives to build up...

I knew it was gonna happen at some point, but it sucks nevertheless.

I'm keeping the same energy I had when Nintendo had their price increases. The Switch 2 accessories I understand since those just came out, but the Switch 1 consoles and accessories I do not understand since those came out 8 years ago with no price drop.

For Playstation the base models shouldn't have been increased at all since we're almost 5 years since they released with no price drop. The PS5 Pro I can understand since that just came out less than a year ago.

These consoles/accessories that are years old and never dropped in price shouldn't have increased in price. Xbox same thing.

Switch 2 is going up to $500-$550 in the USA after the holiday season at the latest. It might even happen before then.
We already hit the point years ago where consoles didn't decrease in price over time (because apparently keeping the price when inflation happens year on year is enough of a cut over the years) and now we're hitting the point due to these tariffs that they are getting more expensive over time.

Nothing like combining the video game gen of corporate greed with the US's 2025 dumpster fire economic policy. Between those two things the consumer is getting absolutely blasted.

Greedy corps, as usual.

The days of heavy subsidies on gaming consoles are over. This may be the last generation where I buy both Xbox and PlayStation. It's becoming less necessary to play the games I want, plus I have less time for gaming, and the hardware is just getting too expensive for me to justify it. For decades I have always picked up one of them near launch, waited a few years for the price to decrease, and picked up the other. But if the prices aren't going to decrease, that strategy no longer works.

It really doesn't matter though, since it seems like exclusivity for Xbox is coming to an end, and Sony probably won't be very far behind them. In many respects, I think it's actually better for gamers this way. Not that we want the consoles to be expensive, but if exclusivity is ending, and we can play everything without buying both platforms, I'd call that a win.

This was hound to happen, absolutely nothing you can do about it

it's still cheaper than series x but now at least series s is cheaper by a some decent amount again.

This gen will die quickly... especially if PS6 is more powerful and will cost less than PS5 as it is expected.

I hope the company fails and goes back on this, these companies are greedy. Sony had record profits last quarter. The cost of hardware didn't go up, this is pure greed. I foresee that the PS5 stock in the US will run out quickly in August.

Whos suprised?

Look I get increasing the price, but why give those who don’t own a PS5 such a short amount of time before the increase goes into effect?

"We have taken the difficult decision of making YOU guys pay the costs of the tariffs. Because clearly the average Jill or Joe, who barely have enough money to hang in there every month are in a much better position to deal with this economic situation than us, the multi billion dollar company that already squeezes your entertainment budget with insane online subscription plans and overpriced games".

$ony