Buying a PS5 - pric...
 

Buying a PS5 - pricing all over the place?

 Pook
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Long time since I've bought a console but I'm looking for a PS5 Slim disc. Prices all seem to have bounced up to £480 or thereabouts from pre-Christmas £380-£420ish. 

Are the prices normally this up and down? I foolishly thought I'd get something in the january sales 🙁


 
Posted : 08/01/2026 8:08 pm
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Posted by: Pook

january sales

Don’t happen anymore really. Thank Black Friday.

 

*Remembers folk queuing up outside Next at 4am on Boxing Day, when all of this were fields…


 
Posted : 08/01/2026 8:16 pm
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The cheapest my son could find one from before Christmas was direct from PlayStation. 380 direct for the full fat one. I think the slims were 50 quid less. I'd wait it out for another sale tbh.

Oh, and get It Takes Two. It's a bloody brilliant.co op game.


 
Posted : 08/01/2026 10:22 pm
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There's the whole AI-driven RAM-pocalypse going on at the moment as well. Memory sticks costing upwards of £500, top spec GPUs now going for £thousands. It will be driving wannabe PC gamers back to the consoles. Maybe £480 is the new baseline? 


 
Posted : 08/01/2026 10:32 pm
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I paid £280 for a PS5 Slim (digital) during black friday. Its £70 to add a disc drive, which was £30 less than buying a disc version.

EDIT: refurbished one from Sony? https://direct.playstation.com/en-gb/buy-consoles/certified-refurbished-playstation5-console


 
Posted : 09/01/2026 10:36 am
 Drac
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Very had some good sales on PS5s not sure they are still on. There often deals for them now as it’s been around for over 5 years. 


 
Posted : 09/01/2026 1:29 pm
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I traded in my 13 year old PS4 and got a £102 towards a PS5 direct from Sony (£52 for the console plus £50 bonus from Sony, via Back Market) just before Cristmas. PS5 slim discs were £380 but I paid an extra £40 for the Ghost of Yotei version, which included the game and fancy cover / controller. I'm sure they'll be down under £400 again soon. 


 
Posted : 09/01/2026 2:42 pm