Perhaps Sony is keeping that news under wraps to buy more time to price that PS5 add-on amid current market realities. Advertisementįurther Reading Despite $100 price increase, Meta Quest 2 still offers historically cheap VRCuriously, Sony's Tuesday launch-window announcement about its next virtual reality system, PlayStation VR2, did not suggest a retail price. Meta attempted to soften the impact of its $100 across-the-board price hike by including a free download of its popular rhythm-action game Beat Saber, which normally retails for $30. The price hike follows similar news from Meta's virtual reality division, which opted to raise prices for its Quest 2 VR system late last month. The US's purchasing power doesn't seem immune to either of those issues, so it's unclear whether Sony's assurance that 'there will be no price increase in the United States' is an ironclad one.

Sony attributes the across-the-board price jumps to two major economic factors: rising inflation and historic lows for the Japanese yen. Canada gets off the easiest with today's increase on a percentage basis, while Europe, Japan, and China are each tied for PS5's harshest price increases. Thus, on a percentage basis, the more affordable PS5 models without disc drives are hit harder by today's news. The price hike appears to be a flat amount of currency in each affected region for both PS5 models. * Japan's price hike will not go into effect until September 15, 2022. Somehow, one particular region is out of Sony's price-hike crosshairs for now: the United States. These include territories in the Asia-Pacific region, Central and South America, and the massive cluster of nations that comprises the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa). Sony's announcement lists specific price increases for some of its biggest gaming territories, yet it additionally warns that 'select markets' may see their own price hikes in the coming days. The price hike for both models of PlayStation 5 (one with a disc drive, one without) is effective immediately in at least six regions, with Japan joining the price-hike fray on September 15. Around the world, console prices are going up. In the early hours of Thursday morning, Sony announced massive news for its PlayStation 5 console family.

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