Sony Confirms PS5 Games Will Cost More

Welp
That means that 90 dollars I used to pay thanks to VAT just went all the way to the triple digits

Yay Canada

Europe prices!! What the hell is this..

People might hate me for saying this, but the Series X seems like the better deal now, especially considering it will allegedly run all games better.

Not surprising, definitely not going to get all games at launch. Is Sackboy definitely a launch game, has anyone got a source for that?

I begrudged paying £30 for day 1 games in the PS2 era. I’ll now happily wait years for things to drop in price. Just recently bought Spider-Man for £9.

Good thing games tend to plummet in price after 6 months

What about Uk?

I had a feeling game prices were going to go up sooner or later.

how do 70 dollars convert to 80? Shouldn't it have been like the other way around?

Did they read the exchange rate backwards because er....that's a big yikes from me.

80€ is around 94.51USD

You gotta be kidding with those prices.
This kinda killed a chunk of my hype for the PS5

@Bush I think the US prices are shown without tax but the EU are? I'm Irish so I'm not sure. But every time I see games advertised as $60 online, US friends tell me it's $60 + tax.

@WCamicase You've got to wait a week longer to pay those prices too!

Demons at launch is solid. It was a terrible idea not to have this finish off the games though. It should have been clear in the trailer.

Oof! What the hell is that!? That's a big yikes.

@NDL08 Up to £70 in the UK, it's just been confirmed.

€80 is a 25% increase. It's mental.

Also Sackboy for €70?!?

I'm definitely waiting a couple of months if this is also the price of physical games. You can usually find them cheaper, but if they're way over 60 it's a big no. Good thing prices drop like a brick after a couple of months.

Jesus christ.

That's it. That's the comment.

Bye bye to day one purchases, hello to heavy discounts

Or $0 USD on PC... What a bargain.

Am waiting a year for PS5. Xbox Series X for me.

@Kalvort it is a better deal, especially with the 35 euro a month including everything console buy out plan

demon souls and spiderman make this a great start. i was hoping for bugsnax at launch too but the other 2 will keep me very occupied

@Steel76 And play and look better at the same time~

Does that mean Mile Morales is $40 on PS4

suddenly it becomes clear why the disc edition is 100$/€/£ more - to try and ward off a resurge in the used market...

nobody is going to pay £60+ for sackboy's adventures. it's probably only a few hours long. even if you did really want it why wouldn't you buy the PS4 version of it for much less, and just take the free upgrade?. don't understand this at all...

the only PS5 physical game pre-orders i seem to be able to find at the minute are AC:Valhalla and Watch Dog: Legions both for £47 (RRP: £55), and CoD: Cold War for £58 (RRP: £65).

Seriously, even if we take taxes into account, expain how $69.99=€79.99?

Thank goodness i still have a massive PS4 backlog. Getting a PS5 at launch will set you back at least $600-800 with an extra controller and a few games.

That's cool, cost of development is rising so I guess this was expected. But now I'm going to have higher expectations. I'll pay the extra money but these games better run flawlessly out of the box.

@belmont - because depending where you live in europe, the sales tax is up to 25%. if you were to add 25% to $70, it'd be $87.5

@leucocyte Wait the US price does not include tax? Here we have 24% tax... Still from 60 to 80 euros it is a big increase...

@belmont - no, they don't, because sales tax varies per state. so prices don't include sales tax.. i've only been to the US once, but i found the practice in shops to be massively frustrating to be honest.

PC for me it seems. I'll just go with youtuber story uploads of PS5 games.

@Gamer83 Do you or anyone have any proof that cost of development is rising,or is it just a thing that we as consumers just sheepishly echo,because that is what the developers have told us.
So can any body with insides info,give me a reason for this statement.

I mean we all knew this was coming eventually. I will just stick to my 2-3 full price I purchases a year and then get everything at 50% off in a sale. Sometimes having no time to game is a blessing cause you end up saving money.

And let’s not all forget some of these are now cross generation titles PS4 with PS5 upgrade.
“ We believe in generations”
You two faced liars.

@Kalvort that, and with a gamepass subscription you don’t even have to buy most games...

Man £70 for a game that’s a lot. £50 is high enough. More reason to wait for sales and never pre order.

@Dezzy70 It's one game. Let's wait. I doubt others will be cross-gen.

@Jaz007
It’s about three or four games
Spider-Man, sack boy and even HZD.
and who knows god of war???

£70? They've already just started charging us £60 over the last year or so.

If there are no more live services and microtransactions then fair enough, but this won't be the case. These companies are already making record profits.

And if you buy the digital only consoles you can't buy second hand - you have to hope they go on sale on the store.

They can go spin! I've seen nothing yet worth the upgrade and seriously rethinking a preorder.

@belmont @leucocyte @Menchi Sales tax in the United States is rarely above 10%. All things considered if the game is $60 it's usually around $68. No way around it, rest of the world is getting shafted.

That's truly expensive for one game (in UK and EU, especially), these news make Game Pass look an even better deal and, certainly, I'd avoid the digital PS5 as the plague.

Good job that only Demons and Spiderman would interest me out of those launch games. This list confirms i csn defenately wait for the ps5 to either drop in price or for the revised inevitable slim version.

Also, would be nice if a UK site actually showed UK prices too, it's one thing pandering to US first, but neglecting Sterling?

XSS with Gamepass it is then. No way are they going to justify those prices.

You can suck it Sony, sticking with my pro for a while

Suddenly, Xbox Game Pass for $15/month with first-party releases sounds more affordable...

@leucocyte I feel the same way. This is the endgame of digital-only: hike up base prices even though we have no guarantee of less microtransactions or better performance. And it eliminates the Amazon/Storefront discounts 1-5 months down the line, pressuring people to buy Day 1.

I aren’t paying £70 for a new game. Spider-Man and God of war are the main PS games that interest me and I enjoyed watching the reveal etc. But the PS plus all access just showed all old games and if that doesn’t compete with game pass I might go with a Xbox series S/ a year of game pass and maybe get PS5 down the line when it’s abit cheaper or when the games are. Hmmm. Edit: Actually just realised I can get Miles Morales on my PS4! Winner! Possibly going with series X for now then! MS looking good value ATM

Absolute bloody nonsense. Games are making more money than they ever have and production values are relative to the hardware at that time. This is just another way to screw us over. Guess I’ll be buying my games second hand.

@BlueOcean Nah, man. PS5 SAD at the end of the gen when all the $70 exclusives drop to $10 or less like they always do. Game Pass until then.

@nessisonett Better not buy the digital Ps5 bro.

Since when has sterling to dollar exchange rate been 1:1 $70 is around £55 in the uk so why are we getting shafted along with having to wait a week more?

@Ralizah That's smart.

@Fuzzymonkeyfunk - add 20% VAT to £55.

@TrolleyProblems Yep, I wanted the disc one anyway as I use my PS4 for blu-rays but still, it’s pretty silly. Release a digital console tied into a specific ecosystem and then yank the rug out, increasing prices. Utterly disgusting.

@TheFrenchiestFry And Australia..Demon's Souls $124.95

@Dezzy70 Wow, just saw the other games. I will be really mad if God of War isn't next gen, Horizon is a real shame, but there are easily worse games it could have been done to like GoW. Demon's Souls I doubt will end up on PS4 at this point since they've clarified on other launch titles.

@rachetmarvel
I was actually just preempting what others were going to say to me.

So, it looks like the rest of the world is financing the prices of the american market.

I'm not going to pay 106 bucks for a video game. Not unless my boss give me a big raise lol

@TheFrenchiestFry I feel your pain. 15% tax rate in Quebec is ridiculous. I hate that they taxe digital versions too. Makes no sense.

@Turbodream I agree, the digital tax is a joke (a worldwide joke). I always wait for deals before buying games, must play the games I already have before wasting money.

Man, if only they had some kind of service, or sub, where you could get first party games the day they came out for one low monthly price...(´-﹏-`)

Have Sony commented on why games prices have gone up $10 in the US and £/€20 in the UK and EU? Doesn't seem right. It feels like they've tried to slip that one under the door and hope no one kicks up a fuss.

That's a huge price hike and means I will be buying purely second hand or in sales for the entire generation. I can't really see anyone I know paying that much even if we can afford it.

@Old-Red - As @leucocyte mentioned, the US prices don't include tax, as they apparently vary between states, so in reality, the prices will likely end up being roughly equal but how much will depend on which state you're in.

Well, this pretty much solidifies a 'wait for a sale' approach for this gen, provided they don't reverse the prices at some point. $125 AUD for any game (unless it's a special edition) is a bit too ridiculous for me even if I could afford it, so while I would've liked to get Demon's Souls at launch, at that price that's probably not gonna happen.

Yup, I’m gonna get the ps5 physical version so I can sell my game after I’m done with it (and buy it again digitally when it’s discounted).

Hoping that places like Base.com will continue to get things cheaper, they are normally £5-10 cheaper so hoping they can be legends like normal

Wohhh, I guess they need to make up for that hit they have to take on the hardware price somewhere but there goes any thought of going digital. I wonder if they are going to up the disk price for third parties in a similar way?

This also makes game pass look like even better value!

@TooBarFoo - most third party games are also going up in price. i think ubisoft (so far) is the only one so far to commit to keeping current-gen pricing for now.

if people are expecting loads of brand new games to go on game pass they are fooling themselves.. MS stuff yes, but most of their output is extremely weak in my opinion (or not proven to be anywhere near top tier talent yet). if you hadn't played on PS4, the PS collection for PS5 has much better stuff imo. but services are not really my thing. i look at game pass and see 200 games of (mostly) rubbish or stuff i played already. i look at PSnow and see 800 games of (mostly) rubbish or stuff i played already.

@leucocyte For a new PS player a 3 months PS+ to play the PS collection is great value, a great selection of games, all sitting on my shelf. I'm unsure how the service game model will play out into the future but I'm open minded about the change if they improve

I'm not happy with the new prices. Was so annoyed with Activision for putting Crash Bandicoot 4 up to £60 so expected PS5 to end up £70. Now the question is how long will it be until Activision puts it up to £75 and then near the end of the generation £80.

Currently I buy a LOT of games. But this price hike is going to cause me to buy a lot less. And even wait for more steep sales. Due to the number of games I like to play, I never have time to replay my past purhcases again. But with this price hike, I can certainly see myself playing them multiple times now.

The regional pricing is ridiculously out of balance, charging the £70 in the Uk and $70 in the US? Even after US sales tax gets added on it still comes to UK customers paying the equivalent of $20 more.

@KidBoruto Went on the PS Blog and saw shortly after that comment, but thank you!

Well now that made me to reconsider buying ps5 is a good idea, Adding more money to my budget and buying a gaming laptop and getting cheaper games is better for me.