Pushing Buttons: Sony’s PS5 price hike shows play does have limits

Prices of PlayStation 5 consoles are rising despite the tough financial situations many are in – even as PS sales are at $20bnI am back from a week of running around Gamescom at a convention centre in Cologne, drinking German beer out of deceptively tiny-looking glasses, only to discover that Sony is – in this economy! – raising the price of the PlayStation 5. The cost will remain the same in the US but everywhere else it will rise by up to 20%; in the UK, it will increase 6%,