Sony is raising PlayStation 5 prices again, this time by between $100 and $150
Memory and storage shortages and price hikes that [started hitting PC components][1] late last year have steadily rippled outward across all kinds of consumer tech—some products have [disappeared,][2] [gone out of stock,][3] or been [delayed][4], and [others][5] have undergone [multiple rounds][6] of price hikes.
Today's bad news comes from Sony, which is [raising prices][7] for PlayStation 5 consoles in the US [just eight months after their last price hike][8]. The drive-less Digital Edition will increase from $500 to $600; the base PS5 with an optical drive will increase from $550 to $650; and the PS5 Pro is going up from $750 to a whopping $900. At the beginning of 2025, these consoles cost $450, $500, and $700, respectively.
Sony, [Microsoft][9], and [Nintendo][10] had all announced one or more price increases for one or more consoles throughout 2025, though these were driven more by [the Trump administration's tariffs][11] on imported goods than component shortages. Game console price cuts [had already become less common][12] over the course of the 2010s, making consoles like the 5-plus-year-old PS5 [historically expensive][13] compared to older consoles at this point in their lifespans.
[Read full article][14]
[Comments][15]
[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/ram-shortage-chaos-expands-to-gpus-high-capacity-ssds-and-even-hard-drives/
[2]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/apples-512gb-mac-studio-vanishes-a-quiet-acknowledgement-of-the-ram-shortage/
[3]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/valves-steam-deck-intermittently-out-of-stock-as-ram-shortage-drags-on/
[4]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/ram-shortage-delays-valves-steam-machine-desktop-and-steam-frame-headset/
[5]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/frameworks-ram-prices-climbing-on-a-monthly-cadence-with-more-hikes-to-come/
[6]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/ongoing-ram-crisis-prompts-raspberry-pis-second-price-hike-in-two-months/
[7]: https://blog.playstation.com/2026/03/27/new-price-changes-for-ps5-ps5-pro-and-playstation-portal-remote-player/
[8]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/sony-joins-xbox-and-nintendo-in-hiking-playstation-5-prices-in-the-us/
[9]: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/09/microsoft-raises-xbox-console-prices-for-the-second-time-this-year/
[10]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/citing-market-conditions-nintendo-hikes-prices-for-original-switch-consoles/
[11]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/supreme-court-blocks-trumps-emergency-tariffs-billions-in-refunds-may-be-owed/
[12]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/chips-arent-improving-like-they-used-to-and-its-killing-game-console-price-cuts/
[13]: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/08/todays-game-consoles-are-historically-overpriced/
[14]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/sony-is-raising-playstation-5-prices-again-this-time-by-between-100-and-150/
[15]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/sony-is-raising-playstation-5-prices-again-this-time-by-between-100-and-150/#comments
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