Sony's 2026 Rise Added 20.8% to Malaysia's PS5 Digital Edition and 3.9% to the PS5 Pro

Sony raised the recommended retail price of its three PS5 consoles in Malaysia on 1 May 2026. We compared each new price with the one it replaced, using Sony's own figures: its PlayStation Blog price announcements and the prices on Sony Store Online Malaysia (store.sony.com.my), read from archived copies of the store's product pages on the Wayback Machine and from the live store on 13 November 2026. Of the three consoles, the cheapest took the biggest rise. The PS5 Digital Edition went from RM2,069 to RM2,499, up 20.8%. The PS5 Pro went from RM3,849 to RM3,999, up 3.9%. In the United States, Sony's own figures for its 2026 round show the Digital Edition and the Pro each rising 20.0%.

All prices here are Sony's recommended retail prices (RRP) or the list price on Sony's own Malaysian store, not promotions and not what other shops charge, which can be higher or lower.

Contents

• The three consoles, before and after 1 May 2026
• Since 2024, the Digital Edition lost 175GB and gained RM430
• The gap to the PS5 Pro narrowed by RM280
• In the US's 2026 round, all three rose by 18% to 20%
• The accessories we could match did not move
• Nearly six years on, the disc PS5 costs RM500 more than in 2020
• What this does not cover

The three consoles, before and after 1 May 2026

The "before" prices are the RRPs Sony announced for Malaysia: RM2,499 and RM2,069 for the disc and Digital editions in its 25 August 2022 Southeast Asia price post, and RM3,849 for the Pro in its September 2024 Southeast Asia launch post. Archived copies of Sony's Malaysian store show those same prices still in place before the change: the Digital Edition at RM2,069 on 9 April 2026, listed as "825GB" under model CFI-2118B, the same model and storage the live store lists at RM2,499 today; the disc edition (Slim, model CFI-2018A) at RM2,499 on 9 October 2025, the latest pre-rise copy we found, about seven months before the change; and the Pro (model CFI-7022B) at RM3,849 on 10 September 2025. Sony's Slim launch post for Southeast Asia gives the Slim disc edition 1TB of storage, and the live store lists today's disc model, CFI-2118A, as 1TB, so the disc comparison is 1TB against 1TB. For the Pro, Sony's figures are edition-level RRPs; we did not match a model number on the live store, and the current Pro may carry a newer model number than the CFI-7022B in the 2025 copy. The "after" prices are from Sony's Southeast Asia price post of 27 March 2026, updated 27 April 2026, and the Digital and disc prices match Sony's live Malaysian store on 13 November 2026. We could not load the Pro's live store page on 13 November (the store was refusing repeated requests), so the Pro's new price is Sony's announced RRP.

Sony announced the RM2,069 Digital Edition price in August 2022, and archived copies of its Malaysian store show RM2,069 on 10 December 2024 and 20 March 2025 (model CFI-2018B) and on 9 April 2026 (model CFI-2118B). Those are snapshots, so we cannot rule out short changes between them. The same model, CFI-2118B, is RM2,499 on the live store today.

Since 2024, the Digital Edition lost 175GB and gained RM430

The Digital Edition in that table is not the one Sony launched the Slim with. Sony's Southeast Asia post says the Slim PS5 went on sale in Malaysia on 20 February 2024 "with 1TB storage for PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition", at MYR 2,069 for the Digital Edition. By 9 April 2026, Sony's Malaysian store was selling a Digital Edition listed as 825GB, model CFI-2118B, still at RM2,069. We do not know exactly when the 825GB version replaced the 1TB one in Malaysia; archived store copies from 10 December 2024 and 20 March 2025 show model CFI-2018B at RM2,069, which is the 1TB Slim model number. So a Malaysian buyer now pays RM2,499 for a Digital Edition with 825GB, against RM2,069 for one with 1TB in 2024: RM430 more for 175GB less storage. The disc edition kept 1TB.

The gap to the PS5 Pro narrowed by RM280

Because the cheap console rose most and the dear one least, the extra cost of stepping up from a Digital Edition to a Pro in Malaysia fell from RM1,780 to RM1,500. In the US the step-up widened, from US$250 to US$300.

In the US's 2026 round, all three rose by 18% to 20%

The "before" prices are from Sony's 20 August 2025 US price post, the "after" prices from the same 2026 post as the Malaysian ones. In each country the "before" column is the RRP in force immediately before the 2026 round. Those starting prices were set at different times: the US had already raised all three consoles in August 2025, and Sony's post that day said it had "no other price changes to announce for additional markets", while Malaysia's starting prices date from 2022 (disc and Digital) and 2024 (Pro). So the two columns are each country's 2026 step, not equal periods, and the US consoles may not be identical in model number to Malaysia's. US RRPs are quoted before sales tax. We compare percentage changes within each country, not prices across the two.

Sony gave one reason for the 2026 round, "continued pressures in the global economic landscape", and did not explain why the size of the rise differed by edition or by country. We do not know why the Pro rose so much less in Malaysia, and we do not claim a cause.

The accessories we could match did not move

We found seven PS5 and PS VR2 accessories with an archived price on Sony's Malaysian store before May 2026 and a live price today, under the same model number. All seven are at the same price:

The Charging Station was also RM149 on Sony's Malaysian store on 25 November 2020, the earliest copy we found. The PS VR2 headset is RM700 cheaper than its RM2,799 store price on 2 March 2024. Some of these items show as out of stock on the store today; the price is still listed. Sony's 2026 post also raised the PlayStation Portal remote player to RM1,099, but we found no archived Malaysian store price for it from before May, so we leave it out.

Nearly six years on, the disc PS5 costs RM500 more than in 2020

On 23 November 2020, in the earliest archived copy we found of its PS5 page, Sony's Malaysian store listed the PS5 with a disc drive at RM2,299. The disc edition is RM2,799 today, RM500 or 21.7% more. These are not identical machines: the 2020 console was the original model with 825GB of storage, and today's is the smaller Slim model with 1TB. They are the edition Sony sold at each date under the same name.

What this does not cover

These are Sony's recommended and own-store prices. Retailers set their own prices, and short sales can sit below them. The archived store copies are snapshots on the dates shown; the store may have run short promotions between them. Accessory prices are compared only where the same model number appears on both dates, so this is not every PlayStation accessory Sony sells.

Sources: Sony Interactive Entertainment, PlayStation Blog posts of 25 August 2022, 23 September 2024, 20 August 2025 and 27 March 2026 (updated 27 April 2026); Sony Store Online Malaysia product pages, archived copies on the Wayback Machine (23 November 2020 to 9 April 2026) and the live store, read 13 November 2026. Analysis: ProductNation.

Archived Sony Store Malaysia pages used (Wayback Machine): Digital Edition, 9 Apr 2026; Digital Edition, 20 Mar 2025; Digital Edition, 10 Dec 2024; disc edition (Slim), 9 Oct 2025; PS5 Pro, 10 Sep 2025; DualSense, 14 May 2025; DualSense Edge, 9 Sep 2025; Charging Station, 12 Sep 2025 and 25 Nov 2020; Media Remote, 12 Aug 2025; PS VR2, 15 Sep 2025 and 2 Mar 2024; PS VR2 Sense charging station, 24 Feb 2024; Access controller, 3 Aug 2024; PS5 with disc drive, 23 Nov 2020. Live prices: store.sony.com.my, read 13 November 2026.