PS5 Sales Live Now in More Regions, Save $50/£75

All we need now is PSVR2 to be around £300 as it is already DOA.

I would of said £400 at launch, but it's been such a catastrophic failure that only a very steep price cut is going to save it.

I have 139 PSVR1 titles, I'm not spending another 7 years buying shovelware and people giving me the excuse that VR is in it's infancy

@TrickyDicky99 by all means, do tell us more

@naruball Well I did tell you all PSVR2 was DOA once they revealed the £530 price tag

And I also told you all that because it's DOA it will also mean a lack of AAA games

I spent 7 years buying indie VR game after indie VR game, supporting the platform etc, but if Sony can't be bothered then I certainly can't be bothered.

Amazon also have 15% off on select accounts making it around £360? Bargain!

Definitely clearing stock before the new model is announced. Good bargain though for anyone not yet owning one.

Good deal, but you said "it's not clear how long the deal will be available for". On Sony Direct it states
"Valid 27/07/2023 22:59 - 10/08/2023 22:59" So only about 2 weeks.

PS5 Slim is almost certainly on its way.

Black Friday deals should be great

It's live at £399.99 across all UK retailers now. For anyone curious there is no PS5 slim, just a digital version with a plug in on the disc drive side under the removable case.

On this new model the disc drive is sold separately. But it basically looks like a PS5 digital.

@Darylb88 Where did you see it at...if anything it would look like the disc version with an empty space, the PS5 digital has no disc space beneath.

@TheArt At work, it is just an updated model internally but on the outside it's the same console. If you take the cover off the new digital version (1300) there is a plug in port when the disc drive can be plugged in then you fit the disc drive casing with comes which the disc drive.

This is a bit better. Just a pity that it has come at the worst possible time for me, so probably won't be able to take advantage of this... oh well.

Smyths Toys £399

Still holding out for next gen. (And games)

The dualsense controllers are on sale for £40 as well, for anyone interested.

@StripedTomato All the colours are £40 at Smyth's toys, I just got the disc console and camo controller for £440 with free delivery.

@TrickyDicky99 sound like ps vita failure all over again.

Nice marketing move Sony raising price $50 and then slash it $75.

@MrMagic
That's more likely a discount. Not like the other day when amazon or gamer sites announced amazon prime deals in a month advance. .. which ended up like £55 for a controller 🤔 what a "deal" it was 😂

@Darylb88
That is a bit disappointing then if that Is all the new model is going to be. I was hoping it would at least look a little smaller and compact / neater. Perhaps they will bring out a slim model when they launch ps5 pro next year, like they did with ps4 slim / ps4 pro. I might consider getting a ps5 in the next few weeks then at the discounted price, if there is no difference with the new rumoured model. I could always trade it in if there is actually a ps5 slim this year and it looks much better 🤔 😂

@TurboTom Yeah I would say getting a PS5 with a disc drive at this price is a great option. Soon there won't be a disc drive option. I think the Spiderman 2 sets are the last 1200 models going out. I think with this 1300 model they probably did look at making a slimmer version but it wasn't feasible yet given the power supply and cooling system size requirements. The clearest indicator before I found out was the Spiderman 2 limited edition in the 1200 model. Even before I even found out from work Tom Henderson said it wouldn't be a slim version which I agree is a shame.

I actually saw on for sale for £399 on sports direct of all places

@silverspeed There's an even better deal at Currys the day, the same price but they through in a copy of the Lego Skywalker Saga.

@Darylb88
I think sony will probably still sell it in two different versions, with disk drive and without. With how you explain it then it would still be more simple for sony to manufacture the single unit and just add the disk drive and appropriate covers when putting it together 🤔 it does seem a bit of a hassle though for people buying the digital version and upgrading it to a disk drive but makes sense for sony i sopose. Yeah I will probably try and get one in the new week or so on sale.

@TurboTom I can safely say from what I am seeing at work there is only 1 version, a digital version with the plug in behind the casing for a disc drive to be slotted in (sold separately). It is a drive to push the new digital at a lower cost but give disc drive fans the option to add a disc drive (for addtional cost). It is what they should have done from 2020 but it's done now.

This is why they are clearing the 1200 series disc drive stock. I would expect the see the 1200 digital PS5 go on sale after the disc version comes off sale in mid Aug. I think it runs until the 10th for disc drive.

Sale that has no option to show all VR games on sale. Typically Sony

@Darylb88
Interesting, thanks for the replys. I do wonder though if that will be a mistake for sony, because they mainly sell the physical version anyway. Although without the option it will force more people to go digital. Do you think £400 will be the new price for digital only going forward?

I've been putting aside money for a PS5 all summer, so I'm pretty anxious for this sale to hit the US. Fingers crossed 😅

PSVR2 is a wonder machine and I refuse to listen to anything negative about it. I just wish that Sony would show some effort.