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The rumour turned out to be true: Sony has revealed a new region-locked PS5 designed to help boost sales of the console in Japan.
It was revealed at today’s State of Play event, and is a standard PS5 in almost every single way. Well, almost. The new version will be region locked to Japan, meaning it only supports the Japanese language and will only play Japanese games.
It will be sold for ¥55,000 (~$350), which is a big reduction on the ¥72,980 (~$473) the Digital Edition currently costs in Japan.
This is a move taken straight out of Nintendo’s playbook who also currently sells a cheaper, region-locked version of the Switch 2.
The PS5 has been doing reasonably well in Japan, surpassing 7 million sales a few months ago and therefore slowly creeping up on the PS4’s lifetime sales of around 8-9 million. But Sony will be hoping that this price drop will help boost those sales and help the PS5 compete with the Switch 2, which are already estimated to be 9-10 million.
