After a French retailer hinted at a price increase coming for PlayStation hardware, namely the PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal, a new PlayStation Blog post confirmed the news. All three devices are getting a price increase starting next week, April 2, 2026, and it's a fairly significant increase of €100 for the PS5 and PS5 Pro consoles. The PlayStation Portal, thankfully, isn't jumping up that much, but it will be another €30 more.
This is now the third global price increase that this generation of PlayStation consoles has had since it launched in 2020. The first one came in August 2022, and the second was just last year, also in April (there was also an increase in the US to match the previous increase in other regions in August 2025). Both times, Sony cited global economic challenges as the reason for the increase, and that's once again the core reason, according to Sony, as to why the price for its main consoles has to increase yet again.
"With continued pressures in the global economic landscape, we’ve made the decision to increase the prices of PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal remote player globally," writes Isabelle Tomatis, vice president of global marketing at Sony. "We 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."
The new prices are pretty much exactly what was rumored just yesterday, though yesterday's report did not include a price hike for the digital edition of the PS5. A digital PS5 is still the cheapest PlayStation console you can buy to enter this current generation, but now that minimum barrier to entry is a whopping $599.99 USD.
| Console | Current US/EU MSRP | New Price | Increase | % Hike |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS5 Slim Digital Edition | $499.99/€499.99 | $599.99/€599.99 | +$100/€100 | +20% |
| PS5 Slim Disc Edition | $549.99/€549.99 | $649.99/€649.99 | +$100/€100 | +18.2% |
| PS5 Pro | $749.99/€799.99 | $899.99/€899.99 | +$150/€100 | +12.5% |
| PS Portal | $219.99/€219.99 | $249.99/€249.99 | +$30/€30 | +13.6% |
We know that there are very real economic challenges that individuals and large companies like Sony are all facing, but this is also the first time we're going through a console generation where prices are going up, instead of down, five, nearly six years into the lives of these devices.
It doesn't set up a promising future for whatever is meant to come next in terms of console hardware. What is the PS6 supposed to cost if the PS5 Pro is already practically $1,000? Just buying the console and one first-party PlayStation game gets you all the way to paying a grand for a console. A second controller puts you over a grand.
It'll be interesting to see, to say the least, how hardware sales continue for the rest of this generation. In November 2025, sales for physical video games and hardware were the worst they had been in the US in a single month for 30 years. It wouldn't be the biggest shock if it doesn't take another 30 years for that record to be broken. In fact, it would be more of a shock if we went the rest of the year with hardware sales not getting that low, or lower, again.
About the author: David has been writing about videogames, technology, and culture since 2020, with a focus on reporting daily news across multiple publications, including GameDaily.Biz, GameSkinny, and PlayStation Universe before joining Wccftech in 2025. David started contributing as Canada/US reporter for Wccftech's gaming section in 2025. Besides being up-to-date on the industry's movements, he loves interviewing developers, reviewing games, and writing intricate essays about the symbolism and layered meanings to be found in rich narratives as he's done for publications like GamesIndustry.Biz, LostInCult, and others. Outside of games he loves movies, music, theatre, his hometown, and his family, though not necessarily in that order.
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