Sony on Thursday raised the really helpful retail price of its PlayStation 5 video games console in a number of worldwide markets citing the world financial surroundings, together with excessive inflation.

The Japanese gaming large mentioned that the price hikes are efficient instantly besides in Japan the place they’ll start on Sep. 15.

Sony isn’t elevating the price of the PS5 in the U.S.

“The worldwide financial surroundings is a problem that many of you round the world are little doubt experiencing,” Sony mentioned in a weblog put up. “We’re seeing excessive world inflation charges, in addition to antagonistic foreign money developments, impacting customers and creating stress on many industries.”

The corporate mentioned that “primarily based on these difficult financial circumstances,” it has determined to boost the price of its flagship console.

These are the hikes and new costs for the PS5:

• Europe: 50 euro ($50) improve to 549.99 euros for the disc model and 449.99 euros for the digital model
• UK: £30 improve to £479.99 for the disc model and £399.99 for the digital mannequin
• Japan: 5000 yen improve to 54,980 yen for the disc model and 44,980 yen for the digital mannequin
• China: 400 yuan improve to 4,299 yuan for the disc model and three,499 yuan for the digital mannequin
• Australia: 50 Australian greenback improve to 799.95 Australian {dollars} for the disc model and 649.95 Australian {dollars} for the digital mannequin
• Mexico: 1,000 Mexican pesos elevated to 14,999 Mexican pesos for the disc model and 12,499 Mexican pesos for the digital mannequin
• Canada: 20 Canadian {dollars} improve to 649.99 Canadian {dollars} for the disc model and 519.99 Canadian {dollars} for the digital mannequin

Sony’s price hike comes amid a hunch for gaming corporations together with Nintendo and Microsoft, which noticed their gross sales slide in the second quarter as the pandemic-induced increase begins to put on off.

Gross sales at Sony’s gaming unit declined 2% year-on-year in the June quarter whereas working revenue plunged practically 37%. The Japanese large additionally reduce its full-year revenue forecast for its gaming division.

Sony can also be contending with continued provide chain points that make it troublesome to make sufficient PS5 consoles to fulfill demand. There was a notable scarcity of PS5s globally.

Rival Xbox, which is made by (*5*)Microsoft, has not but introduced any price hikes.

Given the truth “that the PS5 has been severely provide constrained since launch, with many customers unable to purchase Sony’s newest console, and the proven fact that Microsoft has proven no indication but of growing its Xbox Collection pricing, there isn’t a doubt that this price improve may have been a tough resolution to make,” Piers Harding-Rolls, analysis director at Ampere Evaluation, wrote in a notice on Thursday.

“Nevertheless, with inflation and price will increase being felt by the part provide chain, a lot of that priced in US {dollars}, alongside continued excessive prices in distribution, Sony has now needed to move on some of these value will increase to try to preserve its {hardware} profitability targets.”

Ampere Evaluation estimates that Sony had bought 21 million PS5s worldwide in comparison with Microsoft’s Xbox Collection consoles at 13.8 million.

Harding-Rolls mentioned that he doesn’t anticipate this to place off players wanting to purchase a PlayStation 5 given demand stays excessive.

“Whereas we imagine there might be disappointment for some customers which were making an attempt to purchase a PS5 with out success, or that had been saving to purchase the console simply in time for the price to extend, the excessive pent up demand for Sony’s gadget signifies that this price improve of round 10% throughout most markets may have minimal affect on gross sales of the console,” he mentioned.

“We anticipate Sony’s gross sales forecast for the PS5 to stay unchanged.”