Starting April 2, buying a PlayStation 5 will cost you more. Sony announced global price increases for its PS5 lineup on Friday, with the standard disc edition going from $549.99 to $649.99, the digital edition going from $499.99 to $599.99, and the PS5 Pro going from $749.99 to $899.99. The PlayStation Portal remote player goes from $50 to $249.99. Sony’s explanation was brief: “continued pressures on the global economic landscape.”What makes this hurt more is the context. This is the second price increase in less than a year: Sony had already raised prices in the United States by $50 across the board last August. Put the two together, and the standard PS5 is now $100 more expensive than it was eight months ago and $150 more expensive than when it launched in November 2020 at $500. The PS5 Pro, which launched at $699.99 in late 2024, has now surpassed $900 in less than 18 months.
Games are getting more expensive everywhere, not just on PlayStation
Sony isn’t doing this alone. Microsoft raised the prices of the Xbox console and controller last May. Nintendo increased the original Switch from $299 to $339. The reasons behind these increases go beyond any company’s margins. US tariffs and ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Iran have shaken global supply chains. RAM prices have skyrocketed, in part because AI data centers are consuming memory at a rate the industry was not designed to absorb, and that pressure inevitably trickles down to consumer hardware. Bloomberg recently reported that Sony could delay the next-generation PlayStation until 2028 or 2029, a sign of the seriousness of the situation.The once-hypothetical $1,000 console no longer seems so far away.
India is yet to see a new price change, but the PS5 Pro could finally be on the way
Sony has not announced any price revision for India following Friday’s global increase. That said, India is not untouched: Sony quietly increased the price of the PS5 Digital Edition here from Rs 44,990 to Rs 49,990 around July last year, without any official statement. The disc edition has remained at Rs 54,990. Given Sony’s track record of following global increases with India-specific revisions, it’s reasonable to expect a price hike here as well in the coming months.However, the biggest story out of India right now is the PS5 Pro. The console was never officially launched here because its Wi-Fi 7 support requires the 6GHz spectrum band, which India had not approved. That changed in January 2026, when India lifted restrictions on the bottom of the band. Shortly after, the PS5 Pro appeared in the Bureau of Indian Standards’ certification database, which is usually a sign that the launch is near. Gray market units are already circulating between Rs 70,000 and Rs 80,000; An official launch would likely land in that range or higher once taxes and duties are taken into account.