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PlayStation Plus Price Hike Could Be Coming as Sony Looks to Avoid PS5 Price Increase
Sony PlayStation recently revealed they plan to “monetize” existing users and services to counter further PS5 price increases. According to the company’s CEO, the new strategy is the result of increased memory costs due to the worldwide RAM shortage crisis. Sony Wants to Avoid Another PS5 Price Increase Screenshot: PlayStation This latest update comes from Sony CFO Lin Tao during a recent PlayStation earnings call. During the meeting, Tao explai…
Sony is also struggling with exploding storage prices. But instead of making PlayStation 5 more expensive, the company apparently plans to ask its customers to pay more soon over higher prices for games and services such as PlayStation Plus. (Continue reading)
Sony: PlayStation 5 Prices Won't Rise, But PlayStation Plus Subscriptions Will?
It seems that Sony wants to change its monetization strategy because it doesn’t want to earn more from hardware due to the memory crisis. Although the rise in RAM prices has not yet had a widespread impact on current-generation console prices, it is likely that manufacturers will eventually raise hardware prices. In the case of the Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo is essentially waiting for the right moment. However, Sony plans to minimize the impa…
It was in late October and early November that the price increase of RAM occurred that caught many by surprise and ended their plans to upgrade or buy a PC. Having to pay two, three and up to four times more for RAM memory was more than enough reason to put aside the whim of a computer and prioritize other things. Although it mainly affected consumers, companies were also affected and they had to increase prices or absorb the increase in costs.
Now updated: Sony confirms that the Playstation 5 supply should remain stable despite global memory shortages. Instead, you want to monetize the existing user base.
We know this, and we talk about it very regularly at La Ferme: for months, the hardware market has been shaken by a real crisis in memory, whether it's DRAM, NAND or even more advanced solutions for GPUs and servers. And of course, even SONY can't act as if everything was going well in the best of the worlds. In the publication of its consolidated financial results of Q3 FY2025, SONY GROUP addressed an issue of direct interest to us: the impact …
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