{"id":722,"date":"2025-04-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2025-04-15T16:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T16:01:56","slug":"ps5-digital-edition-now-more-expensive-than-switch-2-in-uk-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/ps5-digital-edition-now-more-expensive-than-switch-2-in-uk-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"PS5 Digital Edition Now More Expensive Than Switch 2 In UK &amp; Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let battle commence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sony <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2025\/04\/13\/ps5-price-to-rise-in-europe-australia-and-new-zealand\/\">has announced<\/a> that it is raising the price of PS5 systems again, with the latest hike affecting the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2025\/04\/ps5-price-increases-announced-by-sony-immediately-affects-uk-europe-and-more\">Push Square<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the PS5 Digital Edition has been subject to the most notable changes, with a price increase for the disc-based PS5 limited to Australia and New Zealand. They are all effective immediately, with Sony blaming the decision on a &#8220;challenging economic environment, including high inflation and fluctuating exchange rates&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/ps5-digital-edition-now-more-expensive-than-switch-2-in-uk-and-europe\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let battle commence. Sony has announced that it is raising the price of PS5 systems again, with the latest hike affecting the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand (thanks, Push Square). It appears that the PS5 Digital Edition has been subject to the most notable changes, with a price increase for the disc-based PS5 limited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}