Sony is reportedly planning to downgrade the storage included in new digital version PlayStation 5 consoles in Europe.
Beginning this month, the digital version of the PS5 – which doesn’t embrace a disc drive – will include 825GB of SSD storage, down from the 1TB included with present PS5 consoles, in accordance with the ever-reliable Billbil-Kun.
The revised 825GB PS5 Digital Version will reportedly go on sale in Europe beginning on September 13. Crucially, it’ll value the identical value as the present 1TB Digital Version console in Europe: €499.
In accordance with Billbil-Kun, the usual version PlayStation 5 console will retain its 1TB of SSD storage in the meanwhile.
It’s possible that the storage discount is a method of avoiding additional value will increase for PlayStation 5 within the present difficult buying and selling local weather. In Europe, the Digital Version console has seen its value elevated twice, most lately earlier this yr. PS5 Digital Version at the moment prices €100 greater than it did at launch 5 years in the past.
Sony additionally elevated the worth of PS5 consoles within the US lately; nonetheless, there’s but no suggestion that the console will obtain a storage discount outdoors of Europe, in accordance with Billbil-Kun.
The PlayStation 5 is the most recent piece of shopper tech to be impacted by international financial points.
Sony beforehand elevated the worth of PS5 in choose areas in August 2022, with each the Digital and Normal editions getting hikes within the UK, Europe, Australia, Japan, China, Mexico and Canada, however not the US. Then, in 2025, it once more raised costs in a number of areas.
Final month, Nintendo raised the worth of its unique Nintendo Swap {hardware}, with the usual models rising in value by $40, the OLED mannequin by $50, and the Swap Lite by $30.
Nintendo has been assessing market situations for a while now, most notably with regard to US President Donald Trump’s ongoing commerce tariff choices.
