PS5 to Receive Rs. 7,500 Discount From July 25 in India: All Details

The discount runs until August 7 on select online and offline retailers in India.

Written by Rahul Chettiyar, Edited by Manas Mitul | Updated: 24 July 2023 14:09 IST

PS5 to Receive Rs. 7,500 Discount From July 25 in India: All Details

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PlayStation 5, and DualSense wireless controller

Highlights

The PS5 will be available at a discounted price of Rs. 47,490
The discount is only available on PS5’s 4K Blu-ray-equipped disc version
It will be available on Amazon, Flipkart, Croma, other major retailers

PlayStation fans can rejoice as Sony has confirmed a limited-time promotional offer for its PS5 console, promising a discount of flat Rs. 7,500 in India. The offer is only applicable on the 4K Blu-ray-equipped disc version of the console and goes live on Tuesday, July 25, at select online and offline retailers. The sale will run for two weeks, going through August 7, and will cut the price of the PS5 down to Rs. 47,490, which is slightly lower than the original cost at which the console was launched in February 2021. This does not affect any game bundle variants of the PS5 console, either. In November 2022, Sony raised the prices for its current-gen consoles by 10 percent for the disc version and 12.5 percent for the digital variant, and now, even if just for a brief period, the former's price is coming back down.

“2023 has been a fantastic year for PS5 so far, with plenty of games to keep players entertained, including recently released blockbuster titles like Hogwarts Legacy and Final Fantasy XVI,” the message from Sony India reads. “We have continued to deliver incredible gaming experiences to our growing PS5 community, including PlayStation's game subscription service, PlayStation Plus, which offers benefits such as the Game and Classics Catalog with hundreds of games to choose from.” It further added that the PS5 promotion will be live on Amazon India, Croma, Flipkart, Reliance Digital, Shopatsc, Vijay Sales, and other ‘select retailers,' which I'm assuming refers to brick-and-mortar stores.

Now that the PS5 supplies/ restocks in India have gotten smoother, there is largely no need for customers to treat these as flash sales, fearing that the storefronts might run out of stock. That said, I'd recommend being a bit more prepared for this upcoming sale, as flocks of gamers could come together to get the best bang for the buck, which Sony hasn't provided since its price hike in November. Even during the recent Amazon Prime Day 2023 sale, the highest discount levied on the PS5 was a price hack of Rs. 2,000, bringing the cost down to Rs. 52,990 — a far cry from the upcoming Rs. 47,490 price tag. Sites like Flipkart and Reliance Digital are notorious for cancelling orders due to server load-related technical issues, so I'd generally suggest avoiding those. But keep their tabs open, just in case.

Earlier this month, during the trial between Microsoft and the US FTC over the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the Xbox parent claimed that Sony was planning to release a PS5 Slim model, later this year, which it believes will be priced at $399.99 (about Rs. 32,764). A report from last year suggested that the new, slimmer console will come with a new chassis and a detachable disc drive. More recently, however, games journalist Tom Henderson claimed on Twitter: “Logically, with a release set for September, a reveal soon makes sense,” adding that they're inclined to believe that the console won't be called ‘PS5 Slim,' but rather a PS5 rebranded as an ‘improved model.'

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Sony PlayStation 5

REVIEW
KEY SPECS
NEWS

Good
DualSense is great
Very powerful
Reduced loading times
Friendlier storage expansion
Capable of 8K / 120fps
4K Blu-ray player (finally)

Bad
Expensive
Lack of truly next-gen exclusives
Not a generation leap over PS4 Pro at launch
Game prices now go up to Rs. 5,000
Missing next-gen upgrades for PS4 games
No "Quick Resume", as on Xbox Series X
Limited backward compatibility
No support for Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos
SSD storage amount is restrictive

Read detailed Sony PlayStation 5 review

HDD 825GB PCie Gen 4 NVMe SSD

Processor Custom 8-core AMD Zen 2 CPU @ 3.5GHz with SMT

Graphics Custom AMD RDNA 2 GPU 36 CUs @ 2.23GHz (variable frequency)

RAM 16GB GDDR6

USB 4

Weight 4.5kg

Ethernet Gigabit

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