Sony Raises PlayStation 5 Slim Disc Edition Prices, but Amazon Still Sells It at the Old Price

This article features deals sourced directly by Gizmodo and produced independently of the editorial team. We may earn a commission when you buy through links on the site. Remember the good old days in 2020 when the PlayStation 5 first came out and people were going nuts trying to get their hands on one? Alerts set on smartphones to let you know there were 3 in stock 100 miles away? Third-party flippers selling them for over $1,000? Things aren’t that crazy six years later, but seeing a big sale on a PS5 is still a vanishingly thin happening. So this one’s a big deal on more than one level — Amazon’s just dropped a $100 price break on the Disc Edition PS5, which brings it down to just $549. There’s more than meets the eye to this deal — the rapidly accelerating shortage of memory for computers and gaming consoles is about to hit the console gaming world like a tidal wave. Console prices are going up, steeply and quickly, and Sony’s raising the prices on the PS5 for the second time in less than a year. So these rare PS5 sales? They might be going extinct entirely. It’s easy to realize what the big deal was, because six years on, the PS5 is still the gold standard of gaming consoles.