The PS5 launched in 2022 and maintained strict pricing for years, with Sony rarely offering any meaningful discounts even during major shopping events. This marks the first year the console sees genuine Black Friday price cuts,

According to reliable hardware leaker Moore’s Law Is Dead, some quick thinking from Sony should prevent the PS5 from being impacted by impending RAM shortages. The YouTuber claims the Japanese company gobbled up a large supply of GDDR6 RAM while prices were low, shielding it from potential scarcity.

The new PlayStation-branded monitor is built for PS5 and PC, featuring high refresh rates, HDR support and a clever way to charge a controller.

Last Friday, TV Tokyo broadcast a discussion between its journalists that dived into the reasons behind Sony releasing this new PS5 variant. They determined that a key motivation is the playerbase in Japan — TV Tokyo reports that the PS5 has been losing more and more of its share of the Japanese console market to Nintendo.

But new CEO Hideaki Nishino – a Japanese executive – allegedly felt “uncomfortable” about the format’s fortunes at home, and has cooked up a rescue plan involving a language-locked model, inspired by the Switch 2.