{"id":362330,"date":"2026-03-28T07:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/362330\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:09:10","slug":"sony-raises-playstation-5-prices-by-up-to-150-citing-economic-pressures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/362330\/","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":362331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,830,834,125,8825],"class_list":["post-362330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-playstation","tag-sony","tag-technology","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}