Red Dead Redemption 1

The prices of both Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2 have quietly increased on the UK PS Store in the past few weeks, resulting in a £10 price hike for the former and a £5 jump for the latter.

First spotted by our sister site Pure Xbox concerning the Xbox One version of the sequel and the backwards compatible version of the first game, these price increases also apply to the PS4 editions.

The simple PS4 port of Red Dead Redemption began life at £39.99, but the PS Store now has it at £49.99. Similarly, Red Dead Redemption 2 has been £54.99 since at least June 2021, but it's gone up to £59.99 in the past week. You can see tracking from PS Prices revealing the cost increases:

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Tracking of Red Dead Redemption's PS4 digital price.
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Tracking of Red Dead Redemption 2's PS4 digital price.

To reflect the price increases of each game, the bundle of the two titles has gone up by £15, now priced at £99.99, when it used to be £84.99. According to Pure Xbox, the Xbox versions of both games have also seen price increases in Brazil, Czechia, and Chile.

Of course, the price of video games and potential increases is the talk of the town at the moment, as fans speculate if Rockstar will dare to go beyond $80 when it prices GTA 6 — the new standard now set by Nintendo and Microsoft for some of its first-party releases. These price adjustments for two titles in Rockstar's back catalogue have been live for a week now, which would suggest they were meant to be updated, if nobody has caught the change by now and corrected them.

Console hardware has increased in price — for both PS5 and Xbox Series X|S — in recent months, and Sony has also bumped up the costs of its three PS Plus tiers in select regions. What do you make of these changes? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

[source psprices.com, via purexbox.com]