Soon, Sony’s most expensive home console, the PlayStation 5 Pro, will get a big $150 price increase in the United States. That means the already pricey machine will soon cost $900. But this price increase for all PlayStation 5 consoles doesn’t happen until next week. Which means this might be the last good time to buy a PS5 Pro ahead of big games like GTA 6 and eventual release of a PlayStation 6.
On March 27, Sony announced that starting on April 2, it was raising prices on all PS5 variants, as well as the PlayStation Portal, by hefty amounts. A digital-only PS5 in 2020 cost $400. Next week, that same machine will be priced at $600. The PS5 Pro is getting the biggest price increase of all. The console launched in 2024 with a $700 price tag. In August 2025, it, along with other PS5 consoles, got a price increase, with the Pro jumping to $750. And next week, it leaps up to $900, which represents a $200 price increase in two years. This all sucks, and we can blame AI companies, terrible Trump tariffs, and greedy corporations for putting us in this new, horrible era of old consoles getting more expensive, not cheaper, over time.
Here’s the thing: If you were even slightly on the fence about buying a PS5 Pro, this is the last week where it makes sense.
As I said before, after spending a whole year with the PS5 Pro, I’m not convinced it’s really worth the upgrade for most people. You need to own a 4K TV, and you need to care about framerates and performance modes to really get any benefit out of Sony’s most expensive PS5. But, if you do own a good TV and you do want to play PS5/console-exclusive games at the highest possible framerate and resolution, then you should—if you can afford it—buy a PS5 Pro before it goes from $750 to $900.
When Grand Theft Auto 6 and Marvel’s Wolverine arrive later this year, they won’t launch alongside PC ports. The best way to play these games in late 2026 and early 2027 will be on a PS5 Pro. That’s going to be the case for a lot of Sony-published PS5 games, as it reportedly backs off porting stuff to PC. And for multiplatform games, PS5 Pro will be the best place to play them compared to other consoles like the Series S or Switch 2. PC will still be king, as always, but keep in mind that GPUs and RAM sticks are going to continue to get harder find and more expensive to buy as datacenters eat up all the parts. So even when GTA 6 gets ported to PC, which will happen eventually, by then, who even knows how much a PS5 Pro or powerful GPU will cost?
Excited about GTA 6? Buy a PS5 Pro now or wait for the PS6
Of course, here’s the annoying catch: After the price increase next week, you should definitely not buy a PS5 Pro.
Sony will eventually release a PS6. That’s going to happen. Precisely when is a lot less certain, because of the RAM crisis and all the other factors previously mentioned, but barring some incredible shift in the company’s strategy, a PS6 is coming. And we can reasonably assume a PS6 will be more powerful than a PS5 Pro. It also seems unlikely that Sony would launch a PS6 at a lower price than the PS5 Pro. So if the PS5 Pro still costs $900 in a year or two (or three…) when Sony finally launches a PS6, then I imagine the next-gen console could cost at least $1000 or likely more. I can’t see Sony selling a new PS6 for less than a weaker, older PS5 Pro. And considering the PS6 will likely include many of the PS5 Pro’s features, like PSSR upscaling and PS4 game performance boosting options, the PS5 Pro, already a hard sell, becomes a far less worthwhile purchase at that point.
Where does this leave you, the person wondering if they should buy a PS5 Pro now before it becomes $900? Well, you need to decide if you care about playing games like GTA 6 at the possibly higher framerates and with more graphical options than on other consoles. If that sounds appealing to you and you already own a 4K TV, then I’d move fast and get a PS5 Pro now. On the other hand, if you wait, then you might as well skip Sony’s expensive console and save up your cash for the PS6 when that releases in the future.
Because once next week arrives, the PS5 Pro goes from a console that’s barely worth it to an overpriced piece of tech waiting to be replaced.
