The situation that the current economy is going through has caused significant inflation which has already caused a significant increase in the prices of many consumer electronics products, although for now the PS5 has been spared. I said “for now” because while it is true that the shortage of semiconductors has improved remarkably, it is also indisputable that the economy is not the best internationally and that many companies still have to “digest” the increase in production costs suffered in recent months.

Looking at Sony’s latest moves, we find that the Japanese company it has already raised the price of some of its most important products within consumer electronics, including everything from cameras to Blu-ray players, home theater systems, headphones and speakers. With this in mind, it’s easy to see why it makes sense to think that the Japanese company will eventually raise the price of the PS5, although this has yet to be confirmed and in fact Sony has been quite elusive when answering the question.

“On a possible price increase for the PS5, at the moment nor is there anything specific i can share with you about prices.” That’s what Sony’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, Hiroki Totoki, told us at VGC.

We can expect a general increase in prices in the world of electronics and computing

This is the trend that the market is showing and that several analysts are pointing out. Despite the normalization of demand for semiconductors and the subsequent release of production capacities, chip price expected to rise 10% to 15%and that in the coming months the costs of other key materials for the world of technology and electronics will also increase significantly. If we add to all of this the increase in the cost of electricity necessary to manufacture semiconductors, we have the perfect cocktail for this significant increase in the prices of consumer electronics and computing in general.

The conclusion we can draw from this is that it is very likely that the price of the PS5 will eventually increase, although it’s not really something that surprises us, since it ended up being almost impossible to buy said console at the recommended price since it came out. If the MSRP is increased, speculators will be able to use this to resell said console at even more abusive prices.

It seems that full normalization still has a long way to go and it is clear that it will not happen before the end of the war in Ukraine, which unfortunately does not seem likely in the short or medium term. We’ll see how the situation develops, but It is almost certain that the next generation of technological productsincluding smartphones (such as the iPhone 14), CPUs, GPUs and other products they will be more expensive than the immediately preceding generation.