{"id":39736,"date":"2026-03-27T20:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=39736"},"modified":"2026-03-27T20:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:56:34","slug":"ps5-price-increase-confirmed-by-sony-amid-market-pressures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=39736","title":{"rendered":"PS5 Price Increase Confirmed By Sony Amid Market Pressures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1601\/16018044\/4672385-ps5console.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sony has announced that the price of PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation portal consoles will be increasing globally, citing the &#8220;global economic landscape&#8221; as the reason for the higher price.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith continued pressures in the global economic landscape, we\u2019ve made the decision to increase the prices of PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal remote player globally,\u201d VP of global marketing, Isabelle Tomatis said in a blog post. \u201cWe know that price changes impact our community, and after careful evaluation, we found this was a necessary step to ensure we can continue delivering innovative, high-quality gaming experiences to players worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These new prices will come into effect starting April 2, 2026:<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/ps5-price-increase-confirmed-by-sony-amid-market-pressures\/1100-6539060\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has announced that the price of PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation portal consoles will be increasing globally, citing the &#8220;global economic landscape&#8221; as the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3093,1780,2586,900,1376,4373,1586],"class_list":["post-39736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-confirmed","tag-increase","tag-market","tag-pressures","tag-price","tag-ps5","tag-sony","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}