PS5 Price increase collapses PlayStation console sales in Japan, with Xbox gaining

https://lemmy.world/post/45394829

PS5 Price increase collapses PlayStation console sales in Japan, with Xbox gaining - Lemmy.World

>The Famitsu data includes several days before the unwelcome announcement. Even so, buyers are already shying away from PlayStation consoles that are straining wallets . The PS5 with optical drive moved 558 units, down from 2,801 sold the week before. Not faring any better, adoption of the Pro went from 4,662 to 840.

Buying the disk version of the Playstation 5 at launch might have been the best investment I’ve made this decade, followed closely by the extra RAM kit and 2TB Samsung 990 SSD I bought in Aug. 2025.

Guess I can eat avocado toast guilt-free 🥹

Hope you don’t keep it vertical, there were videos on YouTube saying that liquid metal in the original models pools at the bottom with time
good to know, mine’s actually currently upside down because that’s the only way the power cord reaches my outlet 💀