Today is your last chance to grab a PS5 before Sony’s price hikes go into effect

Sony announced a $50 terms summation connected each PlayStation 5 “slim” models successful the US starting tomorrow, August 21st. The upcoming prices for a PS5 Digital Edition, the modular PS5, and the PS5 Pro are $499.99, $549.99, and $749.99, respectively; however, you tin debar paying the higher prices by picking up a PS5 astatine Amazon, Best Buy, Target, and Walmart today.

The disc-based PS5 is already sold retired astatine Amazon, and your options whitethorn get adjacent much constricted the longer you wait. As of close now, you tin get the PS5 Digital Edition for astir $449 astatine Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and Target, portion the modular PS5 tin beryllium had for astir $499 astatine Best Buy, Walmart, and Target. You tin besides prime up the newer PS5 Pro for astir $699 astatine Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and Target.

All 3 PS5 consoles tin play the aforesaid room of games, but person flimsy differences. The PS5 Digital Edition features rearranged larboard enactment and lacks a built-in disc drive, which means it tin lone play integer games downloaded from the PlayStation Store. (Sony sells an optional outer thrust you tin adhd aft the information for $79.99 if you’d similar to play carnal games oregon Blu-rays.) The standard, disc-based PS5 features the aforesaid tech specs, but with an interior disc drive. 

PlayStation 5 Digital Edition (slim)

Where to Buy:

• $449 astatine Amazon
• $449 astatine Walmart
• $449.99 astatine Best Buy

PlayStation 5 (slim)

Where to Buy:

• $499 astatine Walmart
• $499.99 astatine Best Buy
• $499.99 astatine Target

The PS5 Pro, meanwhile, has a amended GPU, faster memory, improved ray tracing, enactment for Wi-Fi 7, and AI-powered upscaling. It lacks an interior disc drive, but it’s compatible with the outer disc thrust developed for the archetypal PS5. It besides comes with 2TB of interior retention alternatively of the 1TB SSD recovered successful the non-Pro models, truthful you person further abstraction for stowing integer games. The beefed-up strategy doesn’t person exclusive titles, but prime PS5 titles person received updates to look better. 

PlayStation 5 Pro

Where to Buy:

• $699 astatine Amazon
• $699 astatine Walmart
• $699.99 astatine Best Buy

Sony’s terms hike comes little than a period aft Nintendo introduced a akin $30 summation connected the archetypal Nintendo Switch models. Nintendo besides precocious raised the prices of definite Nintendo Switch 2 accessories, but Sony says “the recommended retail prices for PS5 accessories stay unchanged.” The terms adjustments from some companies are attributable to tariffs connected planetary goods, which were first announced successful April and person continued to change successful effect to President Donald Trump’s on-again-of-again policy.