{"id":1759,"date":"2026-04-09T17:23:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/1759\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:23:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:23:45","slug":"ps5-price-hike-hits-japan-hard-as-ps5-pro-sales-sink-to-xbox-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/1759\/","title":{"rendered":"PS5 Price Hike Hits Japan Hard as PS5 Pro Sales Sink to Xbox Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PS5<\/a> Image: Push Square<\/p>\n

There\u2019s really no reason to purchase a non-language locked PS5 console in Japan after Sony\u2019s latest price hike<\/a>, and the market has responded.<\/p>\n

The latest Famitsu<\/a> hardware sales data spanning the week ending 5th April shows that just 840 PS5 Pro consoles were sold during the period. A further 558 disc-based PS5 consoles were shifted.<\/p>\n

These numbers are non-existent in comparison to the PS5 Digital Edition, which is available in the cheaper, Japanese language-only format<\/a>. That model sold 12,141 units throughout the aforementioned period, for a total of 13,539 units across all SKUs.<\/p>\n

For context, here are the sales of all consoles in Japan last week, with lifetime sales in parentheses:<\/p>\n

Switch 259,543 (5,011,059)PS5 Digital Edition12,141 (1,248,515)Switch OLED7,468 (9,526,329)Switch Lite4,807 (6,903,964)Switch4,067 (20,0271,045)PS5 Pro840 (341,548)PS5558 (5,910,474)Xbox Series X525 (325,952)Xbox Series X DE278 (29,362)Xbox Series S129 (341,622)<\/p>\n

Sony increased the price of its PS5 hardware on 2nd April, and these are the current costs for the various models available:<\/p>\n

PS5 DE Japan\u00a555,000 (~$344)PS5 Digital Edition\u00a589,980 (~$562)PS5\u00a597,980 (~$612)PS5 Pro\u00a5137,980 (~$862)<\/p>\n

So, it costs almost twice as much as the language locked model to buy a disc-based PS5 console, making the decision a no-brainer. Sony\u2019s said it has no plans to increase the price of the Japan-only edition<\/a> just yet.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d expect to see sales of the multilanguage models and the more expensive PS5 Pro continue to collapse locally over time; we can\u2019t imagine Sony will be selling many of those domestically until it can reduce prices.<\/p>\n

But of course, this puts increasing pressure on PlayStation in its home market, as the Switch 2 continues to sell at lightning pace. It\u2019s already surpassed five million units, compared to the PS5\u2019s 7.5 million units \u2013 and the former\u2019s been out less than a year.<\/p>\n

Exactly how Sony intends to address this issue remains to be seen, but it\u2019s clear the company still cares about its home market; it wouldn\u2019t have introduced the language locked model at all if it wasn\u2019t trying to compete domestically, after all.<\/p>\n

[source famitsu.com<\/a>, via gematsu.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\tSee Also<\/p>\n

\"Sammy<\/p>\n

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He\u2019s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Push Square There\u2019s really no reason to purchase a non-language locked PS5 console in Japan after Sony\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2043,8,33,483,1846,2042],"class_list":{"0":"post-1759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-hardware","9":"tag-japan","10":"tag-nihon","11":"tag-ps5","12":"tag-sales","13":"tag-sony"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}