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Purchasing an utilized console is normally an excellent way to conserve yourself some cash. That isn’t truly the case at GameStop any longer, at least not if you’re going shopping for Sony’s PlayStation 5 Pro. That’s due to the fact that the seller just recently raised its secondhand costs, increasing the price tag for an utilized PS5 Pro to $1,399.99 in October 2026, which’s just if it’s a digital edition. GameStop likewise upped the rate for an utilized PS5 Pro with a disc drive to$1,499.99.
The rates here is specifically confusing when you think of the reality a new PS5 Pro from Sony is still just$899.99. Obviously, the console would really need to remain in stock for you to purchase it, which is simply another part of the issue completely as Sony has a hard time to satisfy need for the gadget it released in 2024. Even more, GameStop understands the rate discrepency. An expected worker shared a supposed internal memo about the rate walking on Reddit, according to PushSquare[
The reported memo informs personnel that the secondhand console will cost more than the brand-new one, which the choice to make it by doing this was deliberate.
Why have utilized PS5 Pro costs skyrocketed this high?
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6 months earlier, an utilized PS5 Pro at GameStop cost$807.49, which is what the merchant was charging when we suggested that PlayStation fans not wait to purchase a PS5 in April 2026. Utilized rates were currently beginning to approach after Sony revealed a cost boost at the time, and now we’ve seen the greatest dive with the utilized PS5 Pros, which increased more than $ 600 ever since.
When it comes to the precise reasons, a few of it involves Sony’s rates. The PS5 Pro gone for $ 699.99 in November 2024, nevertheless it increased to $ 749.99 in August 2025, and after that leapt another $ 150 to $ 899.99 in April 2026, with Sony blaming the “global economic landscape” for the boost. The greatest drive behind that issue, obviously, is that AI business are purchasing up chips and memory to power information centers, rising rates for basically every type of electronic devices.
At the brand-new rate of an utilized PS5 Pro, you’re not far off from the approximately $ 1,500 it would cost to develop a video gaming PC with hardware that’s approximately comparable to the PS5 Pro. Naturally, you would not have the ability to play “Grand Theft Auto 6” 
when it shows up in November 2026, as it’s just launching on consoles to begin. And some think that may another huge part of what is driving the need so high.
Purchasing utilized is the only alternative for numerous
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The circumstance isn’t assisted by the truth that brand-new PS5 Pros have actually ended up being practically difficult to discover at any cost or offering condition. Sony’s shop frequently notes the gadget as not available, while stock at Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and GameStop is offered out. Some folks have actually gotten desperate enough to bite, however, with one user even publishing in the PS5 Pro subreddit that they were so fed up with missing out on restock informs that they wound up purchasing an utilized one although it was hardly less expensive than a brand-new one at the time.
Naturally, the response to GameStop’s brand-new costs is basically what you ‘d most likely anticipate from such a remarkable walking. Some users are publishing about how”no game is worth $1400,”in relation to “GTA 6’s” upcoming release solely for Microsoft’s Xbox Series X/S and the PlayStation 5 at launch. That’s a matter of viewpoint, naturally, and for some, it simply may be worth the additional asking rate for the video game, which invested more than a years in advancement. If we were to suggest anything, we ‘d recommend simply getting the base PS5 today, as it appeared to run the video game simply great in the prolonged appearance “GTA 6” designer Rockstar showcased previously this year.
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