{"id":566053,"date":"2026-03-28T07:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566053\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T07:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:13:08","slug":"sony-raises-playstation-5-prices-by-up-to-150-citing-economic-pressures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566053\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony raises PlayStation 5 prices by up to $150 citing economic pressures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Group raised the prices of its PlayStation 5 video-game console lineup by as much as $150 on Friday, attributing the hike to &#8220;continued pressures in the global economic landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post, the company shared new pricing that goes into effect April 2. The standard PlayStation 5 in the U.S. will cost $650, the digital edition will be $600 and the most powerful model \u2014 the PlayStation 5 Pro \u2014 will climb to a staggering $900, up from its current $750. The base PS5 cost $500 when it was first released in late 2020. Costs go up in Europe, the U.K. and Japan, too.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s PlayStation Portal remote device is also increasing to $250, up from $200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony Group raised the prices of its PlayStation 5 video-game console lineup by as much as $150 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,8713,8718,61,2881],"class_list":["post-566053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-playstation","tag-sony","tag-technology","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}