{"id":196948,"date":"2025-09-03T13:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/196948\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:45:15","slug":"rumour-to-avoid-even-more-ps5-price-increases-digital-edition-to-get-reduced-ssd-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/196948\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: To Avoid Even More PS5 Price Increases, Digital Edition to Get Reduced SSD Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"PS5 Push Square\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/86795be0e8adb\/ps5-push-square.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ps5-push-square.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" alt=\"PS5 Push Square\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In order to combat even more PS5 console price increases in Europe, Sony is reportedly looking at reducing the storage space of the SSD each system comes packaged with.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealabs.com\/magazine\/ps5-slim-numerique-chassis-e-vers-une-reduction-du-stockage-ssd-60471\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dealabs<\/a> leaker Billbil-Kun, the Digital Edition of the base PS5 will start to have 825GB of space as part of a new Chassis E series, as opposed to the 1TB of storage in the Chassis D model. The launch PS5 models back in 2020 also come with 825GB of space as standard, but this was increased to 1TB when the PS5 Slim version was released.<\/p>\n<p>The leaker claims that, in the case of the base PS5&#8217;s Digital Edition in Europe specifically, it&#8217;s getting reduced storage to avoid having to raise the price of the system once again. The console has already had two price rises since release.<\/p>\n<p>This new model will reportedly be available from 13th September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than price drops and more affordable models as the generation has progressed, the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S era has bucked the trend with price increases. These have been in response to current market conditions and tariffs imposed by USA president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few weeks ago, Sony announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2025\/08\/ps5-price-increases-confirmed-for-usa-effective-21st-august\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a $50 price increase<\/a> for all PS5 models. Sony vice president Isabelle Tomatis said the following: &#8220;Similar to many global businesses, we continue to navigate a challenging economic environment. As a result, we\u2019ve made the difficult decision to increase the recommended retail price for PlayStation 5 consoles in the U.S. starting on August 21.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This change in approach to price has also become an issue for third-party publishers, with Capcom executive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2025\/09\/ps5s-high-price-becoming-a-serious-headache-for-publishers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Haruhiro Tsujimoto believing the cost is limiting software sales<\/a>. Having earmarked PS5 as the lead platform for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/monster_hunter_wilds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monster Hunter Wilds<\/a>, he argued the cost of the PS5 combined with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/playstation-plus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PS Plus<\/strong><\/a> subscription and the price of the game itself is too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In order to combat even more PS5 console price increases in Europe, Sony is reportedly looking at reducing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":196949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15610,2761,19061,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-196948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ps5","9":"tag-rumours","10":"tag-sony","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115140672742842048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}