PlayStation Has Enough Memory To Avoid Another PS5 Price Increase Until 2027

PlayStation Seems To Confirm There Will Be No More PS5 Price Hikes, For Now Pascal/Pexels Published Jul 31, 2026, 4:14 AM EDT Josh Coulson is an editor at TheGamer covering breaking news on everything from colorful platformers to the latest Lego sets. Primarily a news writer since 2018, Josh has covered just about every major game from the past decade. Now an editor, their focus has shifted to being the leading affiliate expert at the site, building relationships between TheGamer and global brands including Mattel, Funko, and The Pokemon Company. PlayStation just released its financial report for the first quarter of FY2026, and there’s surprisingly what reads like good news about the cost of PS5s. The report notes that PlayStation has secured enough memory for PS5 production through FY2026, and even implies that means it won’t have to raise the cost of its consoles again, for now. PlayStation Has "Secured Enough Memory" As RAM Prices Soar Currys The footnote regarding memory and hardware profitability can be found on slide nine of Sony’s Q1 FY2026 Consolidated Financial Results. “We have secured the quantity of memory necessary to meet our projected sales volume for FY26,” the note reads. That means PlayStation won’t need to acquire more RAM until at least March 31, 2027, which is when its FY26 ends. “There is no change to our plan for hardware profitability for FY26 to remain similar to FY25,” the note continues. That’s the part which should have anyone who plans on buying a new PS5 breathing a sigh of relief. If PlayStation has enough memory to sustain PS5 production until the end of FY26, and there is no change in plans for hardware profitability during that period, that implies there are currently no plans to make the PS5 more expensive. There's Hope, But No Guarantee This is far from a guarantee. This isn’t a public statement from PlayStation assuring gamers that PS5s aren’t about to get more expensive. It's a footnote buried in a financial report. It’s something, though, and considering the public image PlayStation has right now, doing all that it can to make sure PS5s don’t cost even more than they do already as its competitors increase the price of their own consoles is the least it can do. Xbox puts its console prices up for a second time in a year tomorrow, while the Switch 2 is set to get more expensive on August 1. Speaking of PlayStation’s public image, today’s financial report also points to the digital/physical split of its software sales during the last quarter. It claims that 82% of PlayStation games sold were digital. On the one hand, that further explains why PlayStation is moving away from physical. On the other, that’s 18% of a very big number it seems okay to leave behind. Sure, some of those physical sales will become digital ones, but not all of them. Even though this might mean we won’t have to worry about new PS5s getting more expensive until the middle of next year, evidence continues to stack up suggesting the price hikes are far from over. Valve recently warned that the global memory crisis is only going to keep getting worse. That’s bad news for the already pretty pricey Steam Machine, and also for PS5s once PlayStation burns through the memory it has stockpiled to keep production ticking over until 2027. Brand Sony Original Release Date November 12, 2020 Original MSRP (USD) $499, €499, £449, ¥49,980 (Base) // $399, €399, £359, ¥39,980 (Digital), Operating System Orbis OS Processor Custom 8-core AMD Zen 2 Resolution 720p - 8K