You Don’t Need to Pay Over $500 for a PS5 When Refurbished Consoles Are Just $310 Right Now

After Sony precocious hiked the terms of a PlayStation 5 (Disc, Digital, and Pro) by $50, uncovering a amended woody connected the best-selling current-gen console seems much imperative than ever. Say the enactment Bart: "I retrieve erstwhile consoles went down in terms crossed a generation, not up!"

If you inactive haven’t grabbed a PS5 and don’t consciousness similar coughing up $500–$750, I don’t blasted you. I’ve been tracking console deals for six years now, and if there’s 1 happening I’ve learned, it’s that waiting for Sony to abruptly sound a large chunk disconnected the terms is simply a fool’s errand, adjacent with Black Friday 2025 connected the horizon. The smarter move, and the 1 I’d urge each time, is refurbished.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a scary word, and determination volition beryllium plentifulness of convincing, but statistically rare, anecdotal grounds connected socials oregon successful the comments astir however refurbished worldly isn't reliable, volition break, and is... dirty? Blah blah blah.

Refurbished is a supremely valid mode to buy: it's some economically and environmentally positive, and won't teardrop a spread successful your already depleted wallet. You've conscionable got to cognize where to buy, and erstwhile to laic down the gauntlet erstwhile a decent woody yet rears its head.

In my humble opinion, that infinitesimal is now, arsenic PS5 consoles are arsenic inexpensive arsenic $309.99 astatine Woot for a constricted time. That's for the PS5 Slim Digital Edition, portion the PS5 Slim Disc Edition is conscionable $30 much astatine $339.99 (not atrocious considering the Disc Drive costs $80 standalone), and there's besides a "Factory Reconditioned" PS5 Slim Disc Edition.

According to Woot (owned by Amazon), Factory Reconditioned items are "as adjacent to caller arsenic you tin get without technically being new" and "restored to afloat moving information by the archetypal shaper oregon a certified partner." If you privation that other assurance, it'll outgo you an other $30 compared to buying refurbished.

We've already seen plentifulness of buyers find the benefits successful "Refurbished" oregon "Used - Like New" buys during Amazon Prime Day sales, wherever the PS5 Slim, Pro, and PlayStation Portal were each immoderate of the champion sellers of the lawsuit (dropping to arsenic debased arsenic $320, $500, and $125 respectively), and IGN assemblage favorites to boot.

PlayStation themselves person been getting successful connected the enactment precocious arsenic well, and is selling its ain certified refurbished PS5 consoles for $399.99 (albeit these are the modular PS5 console from 2020, not the much caller Slim models that are listed connected Woot).

These besides aren't the lone refurbished deals going close now. Woot's refurbished gaming merchantability runs until September 12 (or portion banal lasts), and besides includes Xbox Controllers from $35, PlayStation Edge Controllers for $140, and Meta Quest VR headsets from conscionable $230. Just to enactment arsenic well, for the uninitiated, Woot is an Amazon-owned company, and you tin usage your Prime relationship for transportation etc.

Other apical PS5 deals close present (besides Hollow Knight: Silksong's unthinkable $20 terms tag) see carnal copes of Resident Evil 4 for $15 and Final Fantasy 16 for $23.49, portion the fancy looking Ghost of Yotei PS5 consoles and controllers conscionable went up for preorder astatine PS Direct and Amazon arsenic well.

Robert Anderson is Senior Commerce Editor and IGN's nonmigratory deals adept connected games, collectibles, trading paper games, and more. You tin travel him @robertliam21 connected Twitter/X oregon Bluesky.