Astray
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- €50 discount on PS5 Pro
- €100 discount on PS5 Slim
- €50 discount on PSVR 2
- Selection of Dualsense controllers for €54.99.
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[Bilbil-kun] Playstation Days of Play 2025 Details (PS5 Pro discount, PS5 Slim discount, discounts on PSVR2 and selected Dualsense models)
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vaibhavpisal
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Is this permanent?
Astray
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Probably not.
Giallo Corsa
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Just in time for a new Dualsense since the one I got got drift and i fooked up during the cleaning process, just hope it's not the usual white, chaki or older models (pink, baby blue).
Astray
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Probably gonna be white + old unsold models.
This feels like a way to ramp up demand for PS5 Slim and get the PS5 Pro going in Europe and MENA, since it appears to be moving the slowest there. And maybe clear out some unsold inventory stock for the accessories.
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Giallo Corsa
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Giallo Corsa
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Man, over here in pizza land, the Pro can be found for 700 and even cheaper from 3rd party sellers
Thick Thighs Save Lives
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The only thing I'm interested in from days of play is some PS+ discount so I can re-up for a year.
Physiognomonics
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But Europe got better with the €450 Astro-bot bundles. About €600 righ now to buy this bundle. A great gift for scammers. Those high prices + limited super deals are bad for the industry.
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Mibu no ookami
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Gotta get rid of those Fortnite controllers...
Crazy for major discounting when everyone assumed they would immediately raise prices. Price increases might happen down the road, but people were getting too ahead of themselves.
I wonder what happened to the BLOPS bundle that was datamined and whether this will be a part of it.
If the PS5 Slim ends up being discounted to $350, you'll still have people suggesting that there will never be a permanent price decrease to 350 at some point. It's clearly on the roadmap post-GTA6. The only question I have is whether they'll move forward with a PS5 Super Slim based on a die-shrunk SOC. That would give us a much better indication that the PS6 is further off than many anticipate.
StereoVsn
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That doesn't compute. They should be increasing prices in hardware like our friend Phil at friendly, neighborhood Microsoft.
How are they doing this? Instead of increasing prices they will offer discounts?
Astray
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I think Microsoft just removed their hardware subsidies and blamed tariffs for it.
The discount amounts come out of the promotional budget. Sony is essentially paying itself and retailers the difference in order to create growth.
Unlike Microsoft they have hardware sales targets to reach.
Having a discount/deal every 3-4 months even if the official MSRP has never been lowered has been their strategy for the whole PS5 gen.
Astray
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Because in past gens we got permanent price drops instead.
Horseganador
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A PS5 that's €150 cheaper than a Series X is going to be a massacre in Europe, well, even more so...
Giallo Corsa
Member
Aw man, I wanted to replace my now defunct black DS with either a cobalt blue, volcanic red or chroma pearl...
I can find them for 69€ from 3rd party sellers BUT, this time I'm gonna go with Amazon for their hassle-free returns (and extra warranty) but...they go for 80€ ATM over there (which I'm absolutely not willing to spend).
Let's see what happens on Monday...
Cheers
It's more or less the same prices as these MDF deals have been before. They just raised the price by €50 to €499, so it's really only €50 less than it was a month ago.
Mibu no ookami
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They forecasted 15 million units. They aren't getting there without pretty substantial discounting, especially without GTA6 releasing.
It's actually interesting timing. Maybe they're hoping to get people who struggle to find a Switch 2 at launch and find the pricing hard to pass up.
Topher
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Baemono
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Me too, I am not keen on subscriptions, but I must admit my library keeps getting bigger and bigger with the monthly free games. I don't understand why Microsoft scaled down its « games for gold » games
Baemono
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I recall the Switch launch year being PS4's best year indeed. Won't happen this time, but interesting nonetheless
GHG
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Mibu no ookami
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I can see where your confusion is because the post doesn't seem 1:1 with this subject.
That being said he was kind of talking about some salient points many of us have brought up in the past to dispell the idea that it was a guarantee that Sony would follow Microsoft through these price hikes immediately.
Sony has their own roadmap and they're still trying to sell consoles. They're at 77 million units, looking to add 15 million units this fiscal year, and probably the same or more the following fiscal year. By March 2027, they'll be looking at 107 million units sold. With a long tail, Sony might see the wisdom in dieshrinking the PS5 and selling it for lower prices for a longer period of time.
So where does this news fit in? It's a signal that Sony is still going to be aggressive about gaining marketing share at a time where the vast majority of the internet was doing the SonyToo meme about pricing. It's a small stretch, but I get his point.
Throttle
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My theory: the delay of GTA 6 prevented a price increase in line with the competitors. They can't rely on that to keep selling Playstations.
Mibu no ookami
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For Sony, because of GTA6, I think you'll have to look at the next 18-24 months. I think they could easily sell 30 million units or more in this time period. If they release a PS5 Super Slim (maybe digital only) and get the PS5 down to 300 dollars (with discounting), the 2nd wind he was referring to is going to be real.
I'm dead...
Astray
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Cobalt Blue and Volcanic Red are probably considered "old" at this point, so you're gonna likely find them discounted imo.
They will have to contend with Switch 2's launch with no 'killer app' of their own besides DS2 or Ghost of Yotei (both are 2nd installments, which limits appeal).
This is why I don't really think they're gonna increase pricing in the US unless they're cornered. They want as much of that Xbox share as possible.
Xbox helped them out by discarding the hardware subsidy entirely, now they have to land the killer blow, so to speak.
I don't think this is how any price increase works. If anything they want to keep PS5s desirable because Xbox still exists and will get GTA6 as well.
Mibu no ookami
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You can't really say no killer app and then proceed to name two killer apps. Both are 10+ million sellers and among the best selling games in modern times. There aren't a lot of franchises higher than these.
Death Stranding might be a 2nd installment but it also had over 20 million players, meaning it has even higher potential to sell more than the first game's 10 million sold. It's almost certainly going to review really well based on previews.
Ghost of Yotei is a second installment, but they've ensured you don't need to play the first game in order to play this. That's the value of not doing Ghost of Tsushima 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Sony might have one of their first original IP that can be evergreen in Ghost.
But my actual point here was that the Switch 2 will sell out at launch, and there will be people who can't get one. These people might see the PS5 price and decide to buy the PS5.
We'll find out what happens after the 90 day pause, but my guess is that tensions will be brought down as people look for an exit ramp. If this happens, yeah, I don't expect the PS5 to increase in price. If tensions were to rise though and tariffs end up back at 145%, yeah, we're not going to see Sony eat those long term even for market share. I'd expect even Microsoft would either discontinue the XBS or raise prices further.
My biggest issue was the narrative that because Microsoft did it, Sony would also do it. The fact that the media especially ignored the obviously different roadmap and the stockpiling and the duplication of supply chain and just resorted to SonyToo was pathetic.
We're going to see over the next two months how Sony and Microsoft's marketshares diverge. I almost wish we didn't have this discount period because we could have seen more naturally what people would have done. Fortunately, only a few days of May will be covered by this, but it's enough to poison the well.
Horseganador
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Seeing the behavior of both companies, it's clear that their strategy is very different. Xbox didn't even wait for the new tariffs and duties to be formalized; they raised EVERYTHING quickly. They don't care about killing their hardware. Sony is clearly doing everything in its power to avoid having to raise the price of the console and continue selling very well.
Although things have calmed down in recent days, I've never seen so much enthusiasm on Twitter and in some media outlets for Sony to raise the prices of consoles and games so they can rest easy and be able to say "SonyToo."
Although things have calmed down in recent days, I've never seen so much enthusiasm on Twitter and in some media outlets for Sony to raise the prices of consoles and games so they can rest easy and be able to say "SonyToo."
asdasdasdbb
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Isn't the sorta issue that the PS5's destined for US are made in Vietnam, while all of MS's is made in China?
Either way I wouldn't be surprised if there is no discount for the US, even if there is in Europe.
Either way I wouldn't be surprised if there is no discount for the US, even if there is in Europe.
jm89
Member
Yup they are frothing from the mouth for Sony to raise the prices.
Some ign clown on an ign xbox podcast even said they wanted Sony to go first.
I think Sony will raise the price in the USA unless something changes with tariffs in china, but it's funny to see Sony take their time to piss of these guys.
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Topher
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It's Days of Play. Sony did the same thing last year.
bender
What time is it?
nial
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2016 was PS4's best calendar year.
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Baemono
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You're right, I always forget it's the financial year ending 31 March 2017, not 2017 by itself
SILKYSMOOTH30FPS
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Lowering the price on a system that has nothing to play nor look forward to.
All i want from Sony at this point is a dualsense with hall effect sticks. That's where i am with Sony this gen.
All i want from Sony at this point is a dualsense with hall effect sticks. That's where i am with Sony this gen.
Mibu no ookami
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It's not the event, it's the timing, which varies by year. It's also the aggressiveness of the cuts and which products...
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