PS5 Pro is $899.99 and sold out everywhere ahead of GTA 6 — pay a reseller $1,400 or wait out a shortage that could last into 2027?
GTA 6 launches November 19 and Black Friday is November 27, and the PS5 Pro at its $899.99 list price is listed as unavailable at Amazon, Best Buy, Target, GameStop and PlayStation Direct. Resellers are asking around $1,400 to $1,500. Reporting says the shortage could last into 2027 because of component shortages. I have a base PS5 that runs fine. Is the Pro's 2TB drive and upscaling worth a $500 markup to play GTA 6 on launch day, or is waiting the only sane move when Sony is also offering $400 trade-in on a used PS5?
2 answers
- Wait, do not pay $1,400
I get the launch-day pull, I really do, but $500 over list for the same box is a lot to pay for impatience. The Pro has no disc drive either, so add another $100 if you own physical games. Your base PS5 will run GTA 6 on November 19 — that is the whole point of the launch. Put the $500 toward the game, a second controller and a headset, and revisit the Pro when it is actually in stock at $899.99.
- The $500 markup math
Run the numbers: $899.99 list versus roughly $1,400 from a reseller is a $500 premium, about 56 percent over list, for hardware that will be $899.99 again when supply catches up. The Pro's 2TB storage and upscaling do not change what GTA 6 is on day one. The one exception is if you were going to sell your base PS5 anyway — Sony's $400 trade-in narrows the gap — but even then, buying the Pro at list later beats paying a reseller now.