Starting tomorrow April 2nd, 2026, Sony is officially raising the price of all PS5 consoles by $50 - $150 (
source). Despite these products being offered at the current regular price, we have promoted it on the front page due to the impending price increase.
Various Retailers have
PlayStation 5 Consoles & PlayStation Portal Remote Players for the prices noted below.
Shipping is free or select free store pickup where applicable.
Thanks to Deal Hunter
Eragorn for finding this deal.
Available options:
- PS5 Slim Limited Edition Fortnite Flowering Chaos Bundle
- PS5 Slim Digital Edition Console (increasing to $599.99 on April 2nd)
- PS5 Slim Disc Edition Console (increasing to $649.99 on April 2nd)
- Amazon $549
- Walmart $549
- Sam's Club (includes $15 Sam's Cash) $549
- Shipping is free for Plus tier members; otherwise shipping cost may vary by location for non-Plus members
- Best Buy $549.99
- Target $549.99
- Newegg $549.99
- Micro Center $549.99
- May be available for free shipping, store pickup orders placed online and/or for in-store purchase (varies by location)
- PS5 Pro Console (increasing to $899.99 on April 2nd)
- Sam's Club $749
- Shipping is free for Plus tier members; otherwise shipping cost may vary by location for non-Plus members
- Best Buy $749.99
- Target $749.99
- Micro Center $749.99
- May be available for store pickup orders placed online and/or for in-store purchase (varies by location)
- PC Richard & Son $749.99
- PlayStation Portal Remote Player (increasing to $249.99 on April 2nd)
- White
- Walmart $199
- Best Buy $199.99
- Target $199.99
- Sam's Club $199
- Shipping is free for Plus tier members; otherwise shipping cost may vary by location for non-Plus members
- Black
- Navy Exchange (not available for shipping)
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2020, PS5: $400
Jan 2025: $450
Aug 21, 2025 $500 "financial strain caused by recent U.S. tariffs"
Feb 20, 2026 $500 even after SCOTUS rules tariffs will end
Apr 2, 2026 $600
Like, there is no realm on earth where a 5 year old machine is now worth 50% more than it was 5 years ago. Absolutely none. People shouldn't buy this, at this kind of pricing you might as well buy a budget gaming PC or wait and see what the Steam Machine looks like
Consoles aren't priced like normal consumer goods where they just get cheaper over time. Historically they do, but that depends on manufacturing costs dropping. That's the key part. This generation hasn't followed that pattern because costs haven't meaningfully come down.
Both Sony and Microsoft sold these at little to no profit early on. As an example, Digital Foundry and others have pointed out that Series X especially was expensive to produce. The Series S literally exists because they needed a cheaper way into the market.
In older consoles, shrinking the chip (die shrink) made things cheaper fast. This gen is stuck on expensive nodes (7nm/6nm), and those haven't seen the same cost reductions. So Sony isn't suddenly saving money 5 years later like they used to.
COVID, logistics costs, component shortages, and inflation pushed costs up, not down. Even if tariffs go away, that doesn't rewind years of higher manufacturing and distribution costs.
Companies often cite one factor publicly, but pricing decisions are cumulative with labor, materials, shipping, exchange rates, etc. Removing one pressure doesn't suddenly justify a price drop if the rest are still elevated.
But this isn't as simple as "Sony is just being greedy on an old machine." The reality is this gen never got the cost curve that previous consoles relied on.
Demand elasticity is the real limiting governor no matter how much you want to downplay that. Price-setting isn't divorced from what consumers will pay. Sony cutting PS5 production forecasts from 25M to 21M units is direct evidence of demand resistance already happening, and Sony's own COO acknowledged it. But what the fark does he know about their demand, clearly he hasn't consulted BraveMonkey over here.
https://www.thefpsrevie
AI demand pressure is real, and is specifically hitting the components in the PS5, not generically. GDDR6 memory prices climbed approximately 30% throughout 2025, with spot market rates jumping from around $2.50 per gigabyte to $3.30. BattleforgePC The PS5 uses GDDR6.
https://battleforgepc.c
But... The PS5 has budget PC specs. It's 16GB, $12.80 actual cost to produce the same memory. Not $200. No matter what you do, you can't escape from Sony just using this as an excuse to get more money.
The only way that ends is if demand collapses.
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Demand elasticity is the real limiting governor no matter how much you want to downplay that. Price-setting isn't divorced from what consumers will pay. Sony cutting PS5 production forecasts from 25M to 21M units is direct evidence of demand resistance already happening, and Sony's own COO acknowledged it. But what the fark does he know about their demand, clearly he hasn't consulted BraveMonkey over here.
https://www.thefpsrevie
AI demand pressure is real, and is specifically hitting the components in the PS5, not generically. GDDR6 memory prices climbed approximately 30% throughout 2025, with spot market rates jumping from around $2.50 per gigabyte to $3.30. BattleforgePC The PS5 uses GDDR6.
https://battleforgepc.c
But... The PS5 has budget PC specs. It's 16GB, $12.80 actual cost to produce the same memory. Not $200. No matter what you do, you can't escape from Sony just using this as an excuse to get more money.
The only way that ends is if demand collapses.
Yes, they are. This is entirely false as a universal rule. You are presenting an abnormal generation as if it's the new immutable baseline. It's not, and has never been.
Using a hardware example that hasn't increased its price by 50% to prove your point about the Sony isn't the amazing argument that you think it is.
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