Sony Puts PS5 on Sale for Once, a £90 Saving in the UK

Bought a 2nd hand, mint condition disc-drive fatty for £344 with a year's warranty
Came with a 1TB hard drive expansion that someone must've forgotten to take out. Seems better value to me!

Decent saving.

@sanderson72 certainly was when I think in 2020 I spent around 150 quid on a 1tb ssd 🤣

They raise prices 3 times of the 5 year old console, then slightly throw a sale up. Very gas price level manipulation here. 🤣

@sanderson72

Nice. You’ve got yourself a real bargain.

I paid just over £250 for a 2TB SSD, in January 2022. And it still sells for the same price now as it did then.

If I ever manage to upgrade my PS5, I will not forget the SSD. I do not want the hassle of having to reinstall everything.

After Sony started charging £70 minimum for games I tuned out.

No Sony, £70 is not the same as $70. £50 is the same as $70.

Which means even back in the PS3 days we were being overcharged.

Sony always seems to treat the UK with these sales a few times a year.
Would be inserting to know if anyone does.
PS5 vs PS4 same time line to today, UK only sales?

It feels like instead of permanent price reductions they now use digital style pricing where they maintain high rrp but do frequent sales that you should always wait for.

Just in time for early Xmas present purchase.

I dont get why people get so angry with Sony over pricing - tech prices are going up across the board. (Didn't we recently have a 2Tb Series X at approx the same price as the significantly more powerful, also 2Tb PS5 Pro).
Its not just Sony raising prices, and just like a lot of things, after all the problems of the last few years, manufacturers were banking on markets returning to stability this year and all of a sudden had massive 'tariffs' introduced from the US, amongst other world issues.

Also, to be fair, with sales coming round so often - and £90 off being excellent - you would be foolish to buy a PS5 thats not on sale these days. If you had waited this long for one, you could wait a little longer, unless your current PS5 failed, of course.

Next gen pricing is going to be interesting for sure.

@SeaDaVie
I agree - A 'sale price' sounds much more enticing to some people, and it creates feelings of 'getting a bargain' (in this case I think £90 off is, but thats not the point im trying to make) and 'must buy in case the next sale isn't as good'.
If they just did a price cut, people would still hold out for a sale - its so embedded in human nature right now.

What's the catch? Are the power and HDMI cables sold separately for £100?

I’m of the opinion that game prices have been inflated to squeeze day one customers, but companies expect most sales to happen when the prices are reduced after the first month-6 weeks. Most games drop to old RRP’s within that time frame these days, even Nintendo games.

I wonder if console prices were raised just so when the prices went back to where they were people would think they were getting a deal?

Party like its 2020 baby.

What did I pay for my original PS5 Digital at launch?

£360?

Thanks to the rampant inflation post-pandemic, that is £460 in today's money?

Correct me if those numbers are wrong.

So paying £339 for the Digital model today is a significant price cut versus launch.

That's a 30% price cut or something?

I'd also note that the same math demonstrates that the "price increases" everyone is complaining about, are actually lower than inflation. So Sony haven't increased the price of the PS5 at all. It's always been cheaper than it was at launch in real terms.

This is for the 825gb model? Or 1tb?

Got my digital PS5 this time last year from Amazon for £338 (with a bigger hard drive than the new models), so pretty happy with that!

@Dogbreath that would work if our salaries all went up by 30%... so it's not any cheaper is it?

Trying to clear out stock of the 1TB models to flood the market with the new 825GB models.

@Dimey you have to view in terms of "Economics" rather than your "perception". How it looks from the ground level in our shoes, is not what is happening when you step back and look at the macro picture.

From the "Economics" perspective you have to consider that during the pandemic, the Government borrowed/printed large quantities of money.

That made the pounds in your pocket worth less.

You perceive it as everything going up in price. But it is not! The cost of a PS5 isn't going up, rather than the value of your money is going down so you need more of it to buy the same things!

You would have obviously had pay rises over that period too of course, I had around 4% per year so yes my salary didn't keep up. My salary is therefore about 10% down on spending power versus 2020.

So yes you absolutely are poorer as a result of economic decisions made from 2020 to 2022. That sucks, but it is not Sony's fault.

Their PS5 is the same price or cheaper than it was at launch. It's just that you are poorer now and your money worth less, because you took on billions in debt during the pandemic and are paying it off the easy way - via the "inflation tax" rather than a direct tax.

@Matthewnh the SSD? It cant do

"On sale for once"
I think that's unfair, they only had the Days of Play sale before summer with a generous discount. I got my PS5 much cheaper back on a Black Friday 3 years ago.

For once? Sony discounts the price of the PS5 4 -5 times a year in the UK, haha.

Why is the disc drive version such a crappy saving compared to the other one?

The point is there are TONNES of used PS5 consoles out there - fatties, slims and Pros (a lot of them) - probably due to people upgrading to a Pro (and in some cases selling them again) so why bother buying new when you can get a used one with at least as good a warranty as the Sony original?

My console came from Music Magpie in their end of year Black Friday-esque deals and was described as Very Good condition but when it arrived, there wasn't a mark on it and the extra Seagate Firecuda 1TB was a distinct bonus.

I finally caved and got one last Black Friday. Think the digital was £309 from Argos, which looking back was a good deal.

So, Sony want £435 for a Slim with disc drive or £340 for one without.

Thing is, Argos are selling the add-on disc drives for £70 bringing the digital+disc version to £410 so who in their right mind would buy the bundle with the disc drive for an extra £25?