That PS5 price and release date ‘leak’ on Amazon is fake – here’s proof
Update: Amazon France tells us the widely-circulated image is fake
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Update:AmazonFrance has confirmed to TechRadar that the image being circulated with the PS5 price and release dateisa fake, and not from its website. “The screenshot showing a PS5 product page onamazon.frwith a price of 499€ and a release date on November 20 is a fake and is not coming from our website,” an Amazon France spokesperson told us. So, that’s that.
Like we said below: beware of bogus PS5 pricing stories. There’s going to be a lot of them untilSonyfinally confirms what the price of the console is.
Original story:AnotherPS5 pricehas apparently been listed on Amazon, this time in France, and reports say that the base console was priced as €499.99 (about $562 / £447). It also lists the release date as November 20, which is a Friday.
We’re not convinced there’s anything in this, though.
Ben Geskin on Twitter shared a screengrab of the listing below. Note, though, that we haven’t been able to verify this ourselves, and thissame imageappears to have been doing the rounds for at least several days.
PlayStation 5 Price: 499€? Digital Edition: 399€? Not bad 👌 pic.twitter.com/JMA3Mj39U5June 16, 2020
So, is this the real deal? We wouldn’t get too carried away just yet. Everyone sharing this image appears to be using the same single screengrab, with the same parts blurred out, so it’s hard to find another source that corroborates the page looking exactly like this within the last week.
It’s a little different to the lastPS5 Amazon UK price snafu, for example, where someone actually managed to order from a dummy ASIN page and screengrab that process. Amazon UK later toldIGNthe listing was simply an “error”.
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The release date in this image is within the ‘Holiday 2020’ range set by Sony, but then any week ahead ofBlack Friday 2020seems plausible, really. The PS4, for reference, launched on Friday November 15, 2013.
The price mentioned here for the base unit of the PS5, though, is roughly what we’re expecting from the new console.
It’s extremely unlikely Sony would let this information be widely disseminated ahead of an official announcement, when you consider that nothing about the PS5 itself leaked ahead of the recent reveal event. Pricing is a sensitive subject, withMicrosoftand Sony no doubt carefully keeping an eye on each other to hit what they deem the right range for their player bases.
Our verdict? Wait for Sony’s next announcement, and be wary of bogus PS5 pricing stories. In the meantime, we’ve reached out to Amazon France to confirm whether the listing was real.
Update: we originally mentioned a possible €399 price listing for the All-Digital PS5 in this story, but it sounds like this was just an estimate doing the rounds. We’ve updated this to remove mentions of it.
Samuel is a PR Manager at game developer Frontier. Formerly TechRadar’s Senior Entertainment Editor, he’s an expert in Marvel, Star Wars, Netflix shows and general streaming stuff. Before his stint at TechRadar, he spent six years at PC Gamer. Samuel is also the co-host of the popular Back Page podcast, in which he details the trials and tribulations of being a games magazine editor – and attempts to justify his impulsive eBay games buying binges.
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