Playstation 5 price and released date Leaked

Playstation 5 price and released date Leaked

The Amazon France listing has prices for both the PS5 and PS5 Digital Only editions. The PS5 is listed at €499 and the Digital Edition clocks in at €399. This converts to approximately $565 USD and $450 USD respectively (£447/£358 in the UK).

That’s quite expensive, and certainly more than I expected Sony to sell the new machine. Then again, around $450 for the Digital Edition seems reasonable and honestly that seems like the way to go. I almost never watch Blu-Rays these days given that most of my TV and movie watching is via streaming services. Same with games. I rarely pop a disc into any of my consoles.

I do have a lot of older games on discs, and I suppose that’s something to consider with backward compatibility, but the vast majority of games I’ve gotten in the past three or four years have been digital. I also think the Digital Edition looks better than the oddly bulging regular PS5 which, let’s face it, has a beer belly. It’s too young to have a beer belly, but there it is.

I’ll be very curious to see if these prices are the real deal or just placeholders. The date seems about right, but I still think that anything over $500 is crazy. My prediction has been the standard PS5 at $499 USD and the Digital at $399. Then again, these must be expensive to make given the fancy SSD.

If the PS5 costs $499/$399, Microsoft could either undercut the PS5 by launching the Xbox Series X at $399 or $449, or match at $499. The Xbox Series S (which is still not official) could release for $399 or even less. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an all-digital Series S as well at $299, though maybe Microsoft will simply release a disc-less Series X instead of a lower-powered machine. Who knows? We’re still waiting for official pricing from both Sony as they play an extended game of chicken. If the standard PS5 costs $565 (or, more likely, $549) Microsoft will be able to undercut Sony with ease.

So this is a fake listing, but the prices could still be on the money, so to speak. The release date is a little harder to peg. The PS4 launched on November 15th, 2013. Meanwhile, Cyberpunk 2077 was just delayed (again) to November 19th, potentially aligning it as an Xbox Series X launch title. So even if November 20th is not correct, I suspect we’ll see the launch of both systems very near that date.