Gamers have less than 24 hours to buy cheap PS5 Pro before £150 price hike
If you were considering picking up a brand new PS5 console anytime soon, today is likely the time to do it.
Last week, Sony announced that major changes are coming to the prices of its PlayStation 5 line-ups with hikes set to hit all three of its home consoles, as well as the PlayStation Portal device. According to the company, this is due to ‘continued pressures in the global economic landscape’.
Those changes are set to come into effect from tomorrow, April 2, giving gamers the best part of 12 hours to snap up one of the blue team’s consoles before their prices skyrocket by £90 across the board.
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Here’s how the prices of each PlayStation device are set to change at midnight tonight:
PlayStation 5 Digital - was £429.99, now £519.99 (£90 increase)
PlayStation 5 - was £479.99, now £569.99 (£90 increase)
PS5 Pro - was £699.99, now £789.99 (£90 increase)
PlayStation Portal - was £199.99, now £219.99 (£20 increase)
However, while the MSRP of these PlayStation consoles are as stated above, there are actually a few deals still knocking around that can see customers pick the devices up for less than retail value.
Over at Argos, the PS5 Pro is currently on offer for £639.99, a whole £60 cheaper than its MSRP and £150 cheaper than the new price from April 1.
Argos also has the PS5 Digital on offer, knocking it down to £399.99 from its usual £429.99. That’s another £30 saving, or £120 versus if you were to pick it up tomorrow.
Lastly, the best deal I can currently find on the bog standard PS5 with a disc drive is at EE, which is currently flogging the console for £445.99 instead of £479.99.
Strangely, all of these prices are actually still higher than the price of the consoles when they first launched back in 2020. It’s rare to see a generation where the devices get more expensive as time goes on with price usually dropping after a couple of years, but the AI bubble, war in Iran and everything else in between seems to be throwing a spanner in the works of the world’s usual economics.
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