{"id":22507,"date":"2026-03-28T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/sony-to-hike-ps5-prices-by-100-as-ai-and-iran-war-push-up-memory-chip-costs\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T10:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:37:18","slug":"sony-to-hike-ps5-prices-by-100-as-ai-and-iran-war-push-up-memory-chip-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/sony-to-hike-ps5-prices-by-100-as-ai-and-iran-war-push-up-memory-chip-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony to hike PS5 prices by $100 as AI and Iran war push up memory chip costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated prices of PlayStation 5 consoles to go into effect on 2 April as electronics makers face rising cost pressures<\/p>\n<p>Sony is raising global prices of its PlayStation 5 consoles, including a $100 increase in the US, marking its second hike in less than a year as the entertainment giant grapples with rising costs of key components such as memory chips.<\/p>\n<p>The tech industry\u2019s race to build out artificial intelligence infrastructure has pushed memory makers to favor higher-margin datacenter chips, tightening supply for consumer devices like the ones Sony sells.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/27\/sony-playstation-5-price-hike-ai-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/44e536c78d72b9c878dcec3a6ef4dfefc36e0c89\/500_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a2cb17a243784b1699fc796e13704f6e\" title=\"Sony to hike PS5 prices by $100 as AI and Iran war push up memory chip costs\" \/>Updated prices of PlayStation 5 consoles to go into effect on 2 April as electronics makers face rising cost pressures<br \/>\nSony is raising global prices of its PlayStation 5 consoles, including a $100 increase in the US, marking its second hike in less than a year as the entertainment giant grapples with rising costs of key components such as memory chips.<br \/>\nThe tech industry\u2019s race to build out artificial intelligence infrastructure has pushed memory makers to favor higher-margin datacenter chips, tightening supply for consumer devices like the ones Sony sells. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated prices of PlayStation 5 consoles to go into effect on 2 April as electronics makers face rising cost pressures Sony is raising global prices of its PlayStation 5 consoles, including a $100 increase in the US, marking its second hike in less than a year as the entertainment giant grapples with rising costs of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/sony-to-hike-ps5-prices-by-100-as-ai-and-iran-war-push-up-memory-chip-costs\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sony to hike PS5 prices by $100 as AI and Iran war push up memory chip costs<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22507"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}