PS5 Pro Is No Longer the Most Expensive Console You Can Buy

They really don’t want to sell these things do they 😂

Can’t say whether it’s viable but Sony just waiting till 2026 to raise console prices will move so many units IF GTA6 is still coming this year.

The fact the Series S is nearly 400 USD and the Series X 2TB glitter edition is more than a Pro is insanity, Sony have already doubled down on their big games this year being £70 so I wonder if it’s possible.

Crazy to think my Series X is now worth more than I paid all those years ago lmao.

Well Microsoft doesn’t really want to sell consoles anyway, so I guess they think we are not gonna sell at loss.

My Pro has started finally giving me what I want like in Hogwarts and Assassins creed shadows. 60fps with better resolution but importantly zero shimmer and pixel crawl, when panning around, which all other consoles still get.

For the people who were planning on buying a Playstation but haven’t yet, now is the time… PS5 Digital being just $20 more than a Series S is just wild, better make use of it while it lasts

"Five-Hundred Ninety-Nine US Dollars" 👀

No longer the most expensive but still the best. Microsoft really want to move away from consoles don't they.

next gen is going to be pricey

Why don’t they just import the consoles straight from China to Europe.
Europe should not have to share the higher costs of Trumps Tariffs.
It’s just also a lazy excuse to increase UK and Europe prices and spread the tariff costs outside the USA

@UltimateOtaku91
Why don’t they just import the consoles straight from China to Europe.
Europe should not have to share the higher costs of Trumps Tariffs.
It’s just also a lazy excuse to increase UK and Europe prices and spread the tariff costs outside the USA

Really thinking about going to Gamefly and just renting the games I want to play for a flat rate a month, and keeping or using holiday money for the few games I will really want to collect.

@personauser93 Surely you'll need a console to play said games though?

You'd have to be out of your mind to pay more for an Xbox than a PS5 Pro

buy a console at launch to get cheapest price

I feel like I'm missing a piece of information. Is the US price adjusted for tariffs? Has there been wild inflation in the supply chain? Have sales slipped below some threshold which means they don't get efficiencies of scale?

I just don't understand how Microsoft would charge more for a lower power console. The must still prefer someone buys an Xbox, right? Someone who owns an Xbox is more likely to get Gamepass than someone who owns a PS5.

Microsoft was already having a hard time I’ll loading these things. Good move.

@AK4tywill Well yeah, I already have PS5 and am fixing to get a Switch 2.

This is why the economic system we live in is so disgusting. Xbox has an earnings report where they announce they are finally seeing some growth due to some smart changes in terms of a more multiplat approach. An approach that in some ways is even more gamer friendly, especially more so than what Sony has done this gen.

So then just a day or two later, these little fat pigs in the boardroom decide the next best course of action is to raise the price of everything just to squeeze the masses a little more and continue the trajectory of pricing some people out of their platform.

All in the midst of an economic climate where purchasing power of the vast majority of the world is low and projected to continue to worsen in the foreseeable future.

All the while you have a game like expedition 33 coming out for sub 50 and is better than 99% of the AAA output we've seen this entire generation. Along with a fraction of the dev team, budget, and in less than 5 years.

Sony has been no better this gen.
You factor in hardware capability gaps, these price increases in games/hardware; then the value proposition of the PC space is far more appealing. Especially considering the next console Gen to come. It would take only a year or two of pc games at a more valid price to make up the ever decreasing gap between the cost of a console and a pc(that is more powerful, and something that can be upgraded incrementally).

It's seems so insane to price people out of a console cycle that is nearly over. Ridiculous. I expected it next Gen, and will likely drop Sony as my platform then, considering how garbage this gen as been in terms of their only shtick: exclusives (Which became remasters and canceled live projects this gen 🤣).

Genius.... You don't want my money anymore MS and Sony? No worries, I will oblige

Wonder if Sony will raise the price of the Pro? Either way glad i got it when i did.

$729 for more storage (equal to the Pro's), sparkles that don't even sparkle, and a green base stand. Zero hardware or software improvements.

If you're going to take the plunge and buy one, do it now. It would be great if Sony didn't raise the price to match competitors but it's almost certain they will in short order.

@carlos82 The X was barely being bought as it was (S is 75% of Xbox sales) so this is pretty much Microsoft taking the X to the shed. I doubt they are even Manufacturing the disc X anymore.

Lets put this into perspective when people pay over £1000 just for a graphics card for a pc.

I managed to get mine before the price inevitably increased because of Trump's tariffs. Zero regrets.

a 5 year old console, if we want some more perspective 😬

A 5 year old console and a slightly bigger SSD vs the brand new(ish) Pro that also has a 2tb SSD and a fair amount of upgrades over the X.

Or a 5 year old, much worse console (S) vs the digital PS5 Slim that was already half a gen up from it to start with.

These are the things that should drive Sony to refrain from any increases themselves. They know they are about to ship a tonne of consoles on this alone, and selling the absolute max potential units should drive them for the rest of the year. Especially as PS has some pretty big games coming out soon, and then GTA which might be bringing those PS4 hangers on up to the current gen too.

From a PS perspective they should absolutely resist the urge to follow suit. Will they, who knows 😬 maybe we should expect the Sony increases prices article tomorrow 😂

This article is gonna age terribly bad.

For anyone in the fence of getting the console, whether it’s the digital, standard or Pro…
DO IT RIGHT F***ING NOW!

Im going to presume that these prices are starting to include the Trump tarriff price hikes, although I wonder if more price increases will be around the corner.

However, am I missing something? Just looking at the Series X prices, there is a $130 difference between the 1Tb and 2Tb models? Why? The series X only uses an SSD performance equivalent to the old gen3 doesn't it, as opposed to PS5's gen4 drive (and is less than half the speed of PS5)? You can buy a 1Tb expansion for the more technically advanced PS5 for less than this.

The price of the Pro is surely set to increase now.

What a sad state of affairs this is for every gamer. ☹️

@IOI to be fair, it does state ‘for now’.

But I agree it will rise over the summer. And articles like this don’t really help console wars.

@DennisReynolds Wouldn't be surprised but they have raised the price of their subscriptions in other countries so maybe it'll stay the same?

@Ravix
I do fully agree with you, but I suspect that once they have exausted their stock of pre-tarriff imported consoles, Sony will be forced to raise their prices in the US - they already have raised prices elsewhere so are unlikely to do so again anytime soon, but not in the US as they had the stock already imported, and needed the dust to settle to know just how much to increase the prices by there.

I just think there is no way that Sony would be able to absorb these costs, nor really should they - but unfortunately, it will be regular people who pay the price.

I suspect (but can't be sure of obviously) that the Pro will get the smaller % increase, but all units, accessories, and maybe even games are likely to see some pretty significant price rises in the US.

MS are clearly going all in on publishing. They are enjoying the profits of people actually paying for the games. Imagine that, people paying full price for the games. Must be alien to them after Gamepass

@DennisReynolds
RE Pro Price increase.
In the US, almost certainly (once pre tarriff import stock has been exausted) , but highly unlikely in other countries, at least in my opinion.

The thing I miss the most about the ps2 era is that the console price went down over time. I know that this Gen got whacked by Covid, supply shortages, inflation and now dementia Donny running amok but the blow of my $450cad almost launch ps2 crapping out was offset by a new ps2 costing $250 to $300 less.

I wonder how much closer thus gets us to the future of gaming where every year,more 2 or 3, there are new consoles like the mud-genbrefreshes that cost more. Kind of like video cards or iPhone. I suppose these won't be "next gen" in any real sense as the games may play on 4bor 5 generations of consoles, but it certainly feels like the days of waiting a few years to buy a GameCube for $99 are over. 🤑

I'm not surprised to be fair (Xbox isn't really a console I want to purchase anyway since I already own a ps5 and Nintendo switch)

God, I hope they hold off on raising the price until after I buy it. I would've bought one by now, but my gf needs a new laptop, and I gotta get the Switch 2. As much as I want a Pro, my launch PS5 can hold me over for a little while longer at least

I'm sure I've said this before but I decided to test Microsoft out for this generation moving from my PlayStation 4 Pro to a Series X I've never been so disappointed. How they can charge more for that door stop is beyond me, sold it on and still use my PlayStation 4 Pro only thing I miss is the load times.

It's becoming so hard to be a consumer of anything (even food). They're pricing people out of every aspect of life. For instance, I'm a Bank Manager and I've seen car prices go from the $25k-$35k three years ago to around $45k-65k now. Just had a customer trade in a 2018 vehicle he paid $284 a month for, now his payment on a 2024 is $864. Meanwhile, they're refusing to give anyone a salary increase.

@OldGamer999 It's not just tariffs causing price increases though.

Most people will wait on a good sale to buy a console. I bought a PS5 slim with disc drive a couple weeks ago for 399.00 and gave the my launch PS5 to my son. I saw the Fort Nite edition PS5 with disc drive for 424.00 at Target a couple days ago. Consoles can still be bought in the US at a reasonable price but you got to shop around.

At this rate, the PS6 will cross 1000$...

@UltimateOtaku91
There also is a bit of an industrial trend going at the moment more than usual.
If you sell 100 items for £50 you make £5000
If you sell 50 items for £100 you make £5000
Now you make the same money but for less production effort by making 50 less items which normally will make more profit.

Now that has become more important than selling the most, it’s the same in the car industry and others and consoles are following that trend.
Of course it’s a little more complicated with cross over points etc.
But selling the most isn’t the main goal anymore, maximising production cost to selling profit is.

I’ve been told here before not to get into economic ideologies, so i wont. But i will say this, judging by the surprised look on everyones faces, it seems like many still dont quite understand how inflation works.

The never ending expansion of the money supply to combat debt will always keep lowering the value of money, causing prices of everything to rise, including luxury consumer gadgets and beyond. Not saying i agree with the system, as i don’t, but inflation is baked in to the system and not going anywhere unfortunately

My PS5 Pro really is looking like my last Playstation console. It don't see how this is sustainable. Sad times.

@Shinnok789 I suspect this current generation is going to last a lot longer than usual. The days of technology getting better and cheaper rapidly seem to be over, at least for now.

Everyone's gonna be renting their consoles next gen,anyone wanna buy a series x 😂

Didnt Sony raise the prices like two weeks ago?

Erm no Series x 2tb £589.99, ps5 pro £699.99

@Cornpop76 Tariffs keep being brought up because much of the MSM network news loves to blame every economic issue and price increase on that, even if it's all regarding countries and business that has nothing to do with the US. That and it's just another excuse for some people to shout about their favorite person to hate.

PS5 Pro is still more expensive when you add in 79.95 for the disc drive and 29.95 for the stand.

They could make the consoles less of parts but then it's not impressive enough. Even though we already have upscaling and the other factors anyways. XD So to me current gen gaming sucks other then to read news about it, not engage in paying/playing any of it.

The other things with prices is one thing, at a loss is another and how they think of pricing them besides all that and besides part choices, OS, and so on.

To me the Xbox is a fair console for quick resume, back compat & more but I'm still on Xbox One as I don't want an upgrade & PS5 to me is also who cares of iPSVR2/Portal, game design direction but less variety, but Xbox hasn't pushed me either as besides Hi Fi Rush/South of Midnight to me the rest are generic third party like design & boring. So they all suck of ideas/direction & design priorities.

I played No Straight Roads/other hack n slashes so I have an idea of what Hi Fi Rush is like. South of Midnight is too story & gameplay generic but feels like it captures it's themes & world well, like a Kena in a way.

But to me gameplay wise yeah I'm not impressed by any devs/pubs/execs/Indies this gen, they all disappoint, genre, game design, anything.

it's why I play older games I've never heard of or come up with my own ideas, it's better then the slop we get these days of RPG system and generic level design/boring movesets, who cares dialogue and worlds that look nice with no level design substance. Or games with few modes, boring hour length execution and nothing of worth in them besides visual garbage motion blur, effects and other technique garbage I never liked anyways.

So to me why would I want a current gen console? I have them as family does and I don't want them. Even PS4/Xbox One sure I played PS3/360 that bit longer but still on and off. This gen I've touched the PS5 for Rift Apart a bit then beat Space Marine 2, so what less then 5 times for 2 games and they weren't even much anyway of improvements over the past ones.

When family are too brain dead for 'you want one right?' and i say NO every single time, they clearly don't get the hint. I can say my reasons, but they are too focused on their values to have a brain it seems even though I have my and respect theirs, mien goes over people's heads of what quality/design I seek. Even though it's really not that hard to understand but for normal people it is apparently. XD FOMO or ok with current trends brain dead people/audiences as to why games/consoles suck these days.

I've seen Digital/Disk PS5's lower then Switch 2 in my region from some stores but don't care. Whether bundles/lowered by retailers, consoles are still boring, games suck & even then Rift Apart, hated it as a Ratchet fan, Space marine 2 was just 1 but with QOL, eh.

WRC 23/Ride 5 (I suck at RIde 4/MotoGP16 I don't have hopes for bad AI even on very easy it's like difficulty levels are broken) & me the ideas in them aren't good enough to pay for.

So to me even besides a few other games i've seen their ok ideas with.

To me this gen sucks, prices, ideas, execution, gimmicks, games and everything else.

I'm happy on Switch 1, PS4, Xbox One and older consoles & Switch 1 didn't interest me in it's gimmicks either. None of the current/Switch 2 do. The games have on Switch 1 of Vita ports & odd other re-releases only on Switch 1, besides the niche Nintendo IPs.

@IOI Nah... i got the driver version and that will do me fine. I will save my money for the PS6 as it seems that will be costly. The pro is not worth it for me. It can't play my physical games.
But, otherwise, i agree. This is awful. Can't believe those fools in the US voted for this. As if covid hadn't been bad enough. I hope their lives are better now. 🤷‍♂️
I am afraid the only chance for the Pro as fas as i'm concerned is a price drop, not an increase, cause i would need to buy the drive as well. This is all nonsense and i do hope sales drop sharply. This is just not ok. We are not oranges you can squeeze for infinite juice.

@OldGamer999
I'll do you one better: why not make the global part in global market a real thing and start assembling products all around the globe instead of just China?

No reason why we should stick to China when almost every major region in the globe have the resources to support an assembly line and a local distribution center.

@CielloArc China has already been sub-contracting to Vietnam already. i.e. this has been happening for years.

The only way you want a console at it's cheapest price buy it at launch now.

What a time we are now, five years into the cycle and prices are increasing. What a sad reality.

Makes all the complaints about the Switch 2 price seem stupid.
Nintendo will still have the cheapest top end option by some margin and you can almost guarantee a Lite equivalent eventually too.

But the PS5 Pro doesn't have a disc drive, so you'll need to add that up. Still more expensive.

‘To be fair, in the UK, the PS5 Pro is still more expensive, as the aforementioned Xbox Series X…’ 🤔

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare @Puketapu
That's still keeping it in the same area, though.
The idea is to have an assembly line and distribution center in every major region.

Why ship everything from Asia? Just ship the components.

sony won't be happy with this news. they will have to rectify it by increasing the price of the ps5 for the third time, right? they will. watch.