Sony recently started offering a version PS5 Digital Edition With only 825 GB of storage in Europe. The controversial decision to reduce the storage space of this PlayStation 5 comes during a difficult year for the gaming industry, during which multiple consoles have increased worldwide.
PS5 was originally released in 2020, which costs $ 500 behind the standard version with DISC DISC, or $ 400 for digital edition. Historically, the price of the consoles tend to decline over the years, but this was not the case with PS5, which not only recorded an increase in costs. For example, Slim Digital Edition increased by $ 50 in 2023. Last month, the PS5 price in the United States was increased and the digital edition increased to $ 500, $ 550 per standard disk version and $ 750 for the expensive PS5 Pro. The prices in Europe followed a similar trajectory, while the price of the digital edition returned to 500 euros in April 2025.
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As Billbil-Kun saw, in Europe on 13. September was issued quietly in Europe quietly released in Europe and instead of a standard 1 TB was quietly released in Europe in Europe and has reduced storage space, only 825 GB. This is a drastic reduction, impaired because it is a release that does not allow physical games. When the SSD PS5 Digital reduced reduction in Europe, it was possible to avoid further increase in price in the region. However, this information has never been confirmed.
Unfortunately, the software was also influenced by Sony changes in its pricing policies. At the beginning of this year, the PS5 and PS4 games in Brazil and Turkey have become more expensive. Although it still costs $ 70 in the United States, the average price of the new AAA has been raised to $ 400, or about $ 75 and $ 3,500, or around $ 84.
Despite these problems, PlayStation 5 continues to be sold well. At the beginning of this year, it was revealed that PS5 has sold over 80.3 million units worldwide since its release. These numbers placed the console of the current gene within 7.1 million units from the transition to the lifelong sales of PS3, but compared to PlayStation 2 the still pale, Sony's most successful console in history. In any case, sales are still relatively chairman of the Xbox X/S series, which allegedly sold over 32 million units sold at the beginning of this year.
