PS5 Price Increases Start, Live Now at Some Retailers

How many times has it gone up now and what was the original launch prices? I forgot.

Why am I not the slightest bit surprised that Game were first in on the action when it comes to price increases

Yesterday I went into Smyth's to pick up a Disc drive for my Pro on click and collect... there were 3 people in the queue before me all picking up PS5's before the price hike..... reminded me of the start of the COVID lockdown when everyone was stocking up on Pasta, Beers and toilet rolls

I did not get my paycheck yet and the price hike is here. This is the perfect time for me to proceed with the purchases.

@Czar_Khastik exactly! All of your debt will miraculously disappear when you die anyway because you can't shake down dead people.

Debt collectors hate the deceased because they figured out how to be beat them.

@AnginaPectoris better still just take out as many loans as possible and fill you credit cards before going off the radar for 6 years. When you reappear your debt is statue barred

@Boxmonkey true. But being dead also means being able to cast away your fleshly prison and finally being able to join the skeleton army.

Make no bones about it with joining the skeleton army. No guts and all the glory.

Kinda wish I’d picked up a Portal at Sam’s Club for $100 a month ago now.

Oh, well. I never use my Switch 2 in portable mode, I’d probably never use the Portal anyway.

Smyths hasn't increased the price yet (£400 for digital, £450 for disc, £690 for Pro, £200 for Portal). Figured I'd bring it up for those who still want to get it at the cheaper cost.

I know Sammy said the price of the DVD Attachment would not increase in price but I was also in Smyth's yesterday there was no panic buying in there Game or Argos I checked online there were 7 available there are 6 today from my corner of the World there is no panic The disc attachment was worth the money.

Some retailers will probably keep old pricing in place until they need to restock. Pro’s probably don’t sell that quickly so we might see them stay at old prices for longer than expected

If the retailers already have the stock, why not sell it through at that price if you can, then when they need to buy more, buy less at the marked up price to prevent excess supply

I got a great deal on a brand new PS5 Pro and disc drive, so ended up just biting the bullet and going for it before the hike. That's it for me now, just gonna ride the PS5 Pro wave and view next gen from afar and see how the industry pans out.

@CutchuSlow If I remember rightly, it was £450 for a disc version and £360 for a non-disc version.
Shortly after both got a £30 price hike for "exchange rate" reasons - unless you were in PS homeland of the USA. Never saw it go lower when the exchange rate were more favourable.
Now we're already £90 over those overpriced hikes for hardware that's struggling with some more modern releases.

@CutchuSlow the original launch ps5 was 499 usd, the original digital was 399.

Lmfao 6 years later and here we are...

@Yousef- Not really. The PS3 was £700/$900 at launch adjusted for inflation. We've been here before.

To buy or not to buy, this is killing me trying to decide.