Sony has increased the price of most of its PlayStation 5 console hardware in the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand by 10-15 %, accusing “a difficult economic environment”. Thanks to prices, with the rising costs of US imports, an important factor is probably likely to rise in the United States.
Sony develops its PlayStation 5 hardware in China, which is now subject to 145 % of the revenue on imports in the United States, and the game consoles have not been included. Stop at some tech tariff Announced Friday. The rise in prices in other markets can be a way to limit how prices will need to be increased in the United States, which is an important market for Sony.
Digital edition of PS5 is the main target of rising prices, which increases in all four markets, while the standard version – which includes a disk drive – is only growing in Australia and New Zealand, and not much. In all four markets, PlayStation 5 Pro is the same price remaining. Sony is also slightly reducing the price of her ad on disk drive accessories.
Gold Blog Post Announcing this change, it has been accused of “high inflation and volatility exchanges”, though there is no mention of Trump’s taxes or import costs in the United States, where prices are the same. Analyst Sarcan Tuto told Cnbc That if he was able to keep Sony PlayStation prices stable in the United States, he would be very surprised, “the company now calls” right “time” to raise prices.
This is the second time that Sony has increased the price of PS5 in most of these markets, followed by Doing the same in August 2022. At that time, Sony also blamed the “negative global inflation rates as well as the negative currency trends”, but in particular noted that it would not bring prices in the United States. There is no such confirmation this time.
The new prices of PS5 are:
Here are the new disk drive for PS5 prices: