Does AMD who makes their APU factor into this at all or is it just greed?

What the fuck does Europe have to do a console from a Japanese company that is made in China and US tariffs?

Gentleman, there is a solution here you are not seeing.

Yeah WTF? Obviously the rest of the world needs to suffer for the cost increase in the US.. Maybe now is the time to preorder a Switch 2 before Nintendo change their worldwide pricing. It's cheaper than $450 USD here in Australia right now.

If I had to guess, it's probably to keep pricing parity across regions and avoid a clusterfuck of import loopholes.

OK, so this is weird and that headline doesn't tell the full story. So in Europe the only price going up is the non-Pro base PS5 Digital Edition (by 10%, not 25%). The PS5 SKUs with a disk drive are staying the same. The PS5 Pro price is staying the same. The standalone disk drive price is actually going *down*. So... WTF is happening here? I'm guessing that the fact the US dollar is collapsing thanks to tangerine man and the Euro is quickly becoming a reserve currency and the exchange rate is going up is messing with things in strange ways? Gonna guess that some manufacturing from some regions is currently more expensive to import but maybe optical drives are still being made in the EU so they can eat some of the costs that way but Australia gets hit by both? I don't know. Man, what a mess. It's the dominoes meme but with the US having a shit public education system on one end and Australian PS5s getting more expensive in the other.

Gentle reminder that you can always build yourself a gaming PC for less, especially now that thanks to Proton 75% of the top 1000 titles run on Linux.

> The PS5 SKUs with a disk drive are staying the same. What SKU still has a disk drive? I thought both the slim and pro were optical disk-less?

Or just money, as they already have the ability to region price and region check software?

And that includes many PlayStation exclusive games that are currently available on steam

You can build yourself a PC for less. You can't build yourself a *more powerful* PC for less. Especially since the PS5 Pro isn't getting a price bump in Europe. You can barely find a dedicated GPU for less money than a base PS5 at all these days. I guess if you go dumpster diving or are very patient in a used parts website you *could* technically get there, but it'd be a bit of a project.

On initial purchase, without used parts, no. But once you consider savings from online subscriptions over the lifespan, yes easily.

Also, considering what else you can do with a powerful PC vs a PS5 Pro, the additional investment is sound. Even just in gaming, modding would make it worth in a short while. > In February 2025, the most played PlayStation 5 games by monthly active users (MAU) were Fortnite, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II/III/Warzone/Black Ops 6, Grand Theft Auto V, EA Sports FC 25, ROBLOX, Minecraft, Rocket League, Marvel Rivals, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege, and Monster Hunter Wilds. You can play all of these and more at PS5 Pro equivalent graphic settings (not that you would notice the difference anyway) with a PC you can easily build for less than the cost of a PS5.

It’s called an excuse, same as we had with covid, supply chain issues, Ukraine war, energy prices, erc. Capitalist greed is limitless, they will use any excuse possible