PS5 and PlayStation Portal Prices Increased - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 27 March 2026 / 10,048 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment announced it is increasing the price of the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation Portal worldwide on April 2 due to "continued pressures in the global economic landscape."
Here are the updated prices for the PS5 and PS5 Pro:
United States
- PS5 – $649.99 (previously $549.99)
- PS5 Digital Edition – $599.99 (previously $499.99)
- PS5 Pro – $899.99 (previously ($749.99)
- PS Portal – $249.99 (previously $199.99)
United Kingdom
- PS5 – £569.99 (previously £479.99)
- PS5 Digital Edition – £519.99 (previously £429.99)
- PS5 Pro – £789.99 (previously £699.99)
- PS Portal – £219.99 (previously £199.99)
Europe
- PS5 – €649.99 (previously €549.99)
- PS5 Digital Edition – €599.99 (previously €499.99)
- PS5 Pro – €899.99 (previously €799.99)
- PS Portal – €249.99 (previously €219.99)
Japan
- PS5 – ¥97,980 (previously ¥79,980)
- PS5 Digital Edition – ¥89,980 (previously ¥72,980)
- PS5 Pro – ¥137,980 (previously ¥119,980)
- PS Portal – ¥39,980 (previously ¥34,980)
Here is a video discussing the latest price increases along with comparing it to the current prices of the Xbox Series consoles:
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Switch 2 will easily win 2026 even GTA6 cant save PS5 with these prices
They 100% will
Doubtful, Nintendo is much earlier in the user acquisition process than Sony. They have much more incentive to take the hit.
We shall see,noo waay nintendo is gonne take a 200 dollar hit. 100dollar perhaps.
Doesn't matter to me either way, tho I am curious.
NS2 also doesn't have as much RAM and it's not on the higher end... So I would imagine that any increase to production cost on their end wouldn't be as much as Sony/Xbox/PC
I haven't thought that. I just said it's not impossible. Because of the price increase Sony very easily can prolong the generation till 2030, and with that use price cuts and bundles in the next few years, and ultimately reach the PS2 yes, although again that is very unlikely, however not impossible. There is always a way.
I don't think Sony even see's Switch 2 as a competitor to PS5. They couldn't care less
Well if the PS6 Portable rumors are true, I’m not all too sure Sony thinks of Nintendo as so little of a threat any longer. Especially not with all the third-party support NS2 has received.
If GTAVI ends up finding its way on NS2, then this is no longer a question. Sony will view any system that plays GTAVI at $450USD as a major competitor.
I just think that if Nintendo intended for Switch 2 to compete with PS5 it would've been designed differently with different specs and a higher price tag. There was a lot of PS4 era games that they were missing out on like RE7/8 and Elden Ring that would be great having on your platform. CPU power and memory bandwidth is basically identical to an Xbox one and I think they did that deliberately so they could be sure that any game that ran on Xbox One could run on Switch 2
CPU power exceeds PS4. GPU power is 75% of a Series S when docked. Switch 2s SOC was finished in 2021 as marked on said SOC. Nintendo delayed its release cos Switch 1 was on a pandemic boost. If Switch 2 had released in 2022/23 as planned it would've been a high end handheld.
Switch 2 is in the same market as PS5 but it primarily addresses a different market segment. However there is clear overlap and whilst Sony dont directly compete with Nintendo as fiercely as they do Microsoft, they remain a consideration and influence on their strategy. Hence their 3rd stab at a handheld to address that Nintendo competition and reclaim some Japanese market share.
No they won’t, people are not going to play GTA6 on a $450 console in 2026/2027, that’s fantasy.
it could be in the future with the 3rd party creeping into the switch 2 library
you should expect them to still discount during the holliday season again. at least bellow the new msrp.
Goodbye PS5.
Would be funny if GTA VI is delayed again.
Oh my god!! That price increase is brutal!!
What happened with the Sony had enough of a ram stock or whatever for the whole 2026 year to not increase prices ???
2025, and they sold all of it, or we gonne see another record breaking profits from them
As has already been said, it has been used. We do not know how long their contract was for components and at what prices.
in some of the articles about that, was written that they have saved enough of a stock for all of 2026.
Maybe they did, until April, lol. Or maybe they did not.
or maybe they have stock until end of the year, and are just too cocky and see that PS5 sells okay, and just take advantage of the whole situation.
I eagerly await to see this covered as widely as the pricing confusion on Nintendo Digital and Physical the other day.
A 150€ increase in europe, are we serious right now?
Piers-Harding thinks the other two will follow.
WTF?!?! Like that's stupid prices for a 5.5 year old console. Prices are meant to go down, it should be £250-300 by now.
Buy used people!
Don't buy used people
I buy all my people new. You just never know what you are getting with the used ones.
HAha! Leaving my comment unedited because of this reply. :P
But you can buy 2 used ones for the price of a 1 new one
Seems like the better deal
So now it costs 1000 tacos to have a PS5 Pro + disk drive in the US.
What a time to be alive.
Where are getting a taco for $1USD??
Sorry, I meant to say 1000 taco dollars, the currency of president taco's kingdom.
Ahh I see. That makes more sense.
That's what no real competition looks like
Uh, are you forgetting that Xbox increased the prices twice last year? They are competing alright, competing to see who will raise prices first.
Compare the Xbox sales with PS. Xbox made sure with those price hikes (among other factors) to stop competing with PS. So easy for PS to raise prices now.
Even if they were neck to neck, one of them raising the prices is all the incentive the other needs to do it too, unless the other one was losing badly, but Microslop clearly doesn't care about that.
MS raised prices because of production costs just like Sony raised them because of production costs. Literally has nothing to do with competition
No, they pay because their attitudes toward such things have drastically changed. Back in the day, gaming was seen as an optional form of entertainment, something you could live without. Now, it's seen as essential, like smart phones, so people pay whatever, unhappy about it or not.
From an insider " I had meeting with these guys...memory prices killed their cost...memory prices is around 7 times higher compared to 6 months ago... "
time to keep buying the stuff im missing for psp and wii u
Way to go, AI.
I know there are factors beyond their control, but these companies have to figure something out or gaming will be a niche hobby for the rich.
So basically $1000 for a Pro, after tax...
Ouch, really glad I bought a prebuilt PC 6 months ago
I hope it dies a painful death. I doubt it though.
this is part to less competition, cmon microsoft get it together.
Yikes. Switch 2 is imminent for a price increase, I feel.
Goodby playstation.
Whaat THE FUCK! THIS is insane
Wow... I am glad I got the Ps5 pro at $699 on launch( Actually paid $20 after trade in)
That's too expensive for everything except maybe the Portal
console price increasing has been a good way to realise how bad the current global economy is.
XBSS might make a bit of a comeback here.
Xbox should be raising in price soon too, sadly.
Well, if XBSS price raises again then it won't but the price it's at now, be interesting to see what happens.
i do not see that happening, i love my seriesX and play it way more than my PS5
Thanks, AI and Adolf Tariff.
Better start saving for the PS6 now, anyone thinking it will be cheaper than 1k (the current cost of a Pro with a disc drive and stand) is delusional - you have 18 months to save as it will be out alongside the Helix.
Welp the gen is over for PS5. LT sales will end at just about 100 million. No one is buying at that price. I expect their sales to drop significantly, like 80-90% drop.
The price to performance ladder will soon look like this:
512gb Series S $400
1tb Series S $450
827gb PS5 (digital) $600
1tb Series X (digital) $600
1tb PS5 (disc) $650
1tb Series X (disc) $650
2tb Series X (disc) $800
2tb PS5 Pro (digital) $900
Curious how much a difference this will make on their projected sales for the coming months?
Well shit. The rumor was true after all. And it wasn’t just for Europe, EVERYONE got it.
This is NOT a good sign at all for the PS6’s launch price.
Sony will not launch a PS6 at a crazy price, they would just cancel it. They know it, we know it that a $999 PS6 would never sell. The PS3 was priced too high and it never sold, and I argue most people's spending power was better back then.
Glad I got them all when I did... but for anyone who was still on the fence of Series X or PS5... this move makes the X more appealing.
Didnt Sony just drop the price of the PS5 in Japan? Guess Sony saw that they got above 10k a week and was like, nah this aint happening, release the price increase!
Sigh:
https://youtu.be/GqQuhMwkrA4?is=3deiCr8LknL1ItvZ
Crazy times.
March PS5 worldwide hardware estimates incoming: 3.000.000
;)
What wonderful times those were .. I want time machine to go back in time.
This is getting ridiculous and bullshit, now there's no way of buying the PS5 PRO, was waiting for it to drop to AU $800 and now that never gonna happen, your loss stupid greedy Sony!!
This generation of gaming is messed up. Gone are the price drops for consoles over time, and now it's all price hikes.
Aaaand Xbox and Switch price increases incoming. This fucking timeline...
thank god i own one already
GOD almighty (Kathy Bates titanic voice)
If GTA6 comes to the Switch 2, it will be by far the cheapest way to play the game.
US PS5 Pro price going up by $150. That’s a fair bit more than the other markets. Is that the impact of the tariffs?
This is getting ridiculous and bullshit, now there's no way of buying the PS5 PRO, was waiting for it to drop to AU $800 and now that never gonna happen, your loss stupid greedy Sony!!
And some believes the PS6 wouldn't cost more then $1000, the PRO in Australia is $1200 and their is no way a more powerful PS6 will release cheaper, if they did, then the PRO is a massive rip off.
Fkn trump, guy is ruining the world
This doesn't really have much of anything to do with tariffs
The price was going up, with or without them
Why though?
