{"id":29340,"date":"2020-09-22T16:38:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=29340"},"modified":"2020-09-22T16:38:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:38:32","slug":"playstation-5-sa-pricing-release-date-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/playstation-5-sa-pricing-release-date-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Playstation 5: SA Pricing, Release Date, &#038; What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playstation South Africa has confirmed the price of the standard PS5 and digital-only PS5 model will be\u00a0<strong>R11,999<\/strong> and <strong>R9,999<\/strong> respectively when they launch in SA on <strong>19 November 2020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Playstation 5 standard edition &#8211; <strong>R11,999<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Playstation 5 Digital-Only Discless model &#8211; <strong>R9,999<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29342\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PS5-pricing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PS5-pricing.jpg 1200w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PS5-pricing-300x157.jpg 300w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PS5-pricing-768x402.jpg 768w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PS5-pricing-1024x536.jpg 1024w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PS5-pricing-351x185.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;higher&#8217; price as compared to the straight conversion from the US dollar prices ($499 and $399 respectively) is due to taxes, shipping, distributor mark-ups, and other costs associated with bringing the consoles into South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read:\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #80cf9e;\"><a class=\"row-title\" style=\"color: #80cf9e;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/blog\/5-big-ps5-games-coming-your-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"\u201c5 Big PS5 Games Coming Your Way\u201d (Edit)\">5 Big PS5 Games Coming Your Way<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In terms of specs, here&#8217;s what you can expect with the PS5:<\/p>\n<p><strong>CPU<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>x86-64-AMD Ryzen\u2122 \u201cZen 2\u201d<\/li>\n<li>8 Cores \/ 16 Threads<\/li>\n<li>Variable frequency, up to 3.5 GHz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>GPU<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AMD Radeon\u2122 RDNA 2-based graphics engine<\/li>\n<li>Ray Tracing Acceleration<\/li>\n<li>Variable frequency, up to 2.23 GHz (10.3 TFLOPS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>System Memory<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GDDR6 16GB<\/li>\n<li>448GB\/s Bandwidth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SSD<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>825GB<\/li>\n<li>5.5GB\/s Read Bandwidth (Raw)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Optical Drive<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ultra HD Blu-ray (66G\/100G) ~10xCAV<\/li>\n<li>BD-ROM (25G\/50G) ~8xCAV<\/li>\n<li>BD-R\/RE (25G\/50G) ~8xCAV<\/li>\n<li>DVD ~3.2xCLV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Video Out<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HDMI OUT port<\/li>\n<li>Support of 4K 120Hz TVs, 8K TVs, VRR (specified by HDMI ver.2.1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Audio<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cTempest\u201d 3D AudioTech<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Input\/Output<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>USB Type-A port (Hi-Speed USB)<\/li>\n<li>USB Type-A port (Super-Speed USB 10Gbps) x2<\/li>\n<li>USB Type-C port (Super-Speed USB 10Gbps)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Networking<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T)<\/li>\n<li>IEEE 802.11 a\/b\/g\/n\/ac\/ax<\/li>\n<li>Bluetooth 5.1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the other side of the console battle is Microsoft, who announced their next-gen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/blog\/xbox-series-x-s-south-african-pricing-confirmed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xbox Series X<\/a> will be priced at <strong>R11,999<\/strong>, while the smaller and digital-only Xbox Series S will be priced at <strong>R6,999<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4><b>Find and compare the<span style=\"color: #80cf9e;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #80cf9e;\"><a style=\"color: #80cf9e;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/categories\/200\/Games?utm_source=blog.pricecheck.co.za&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=blog_Playstation_5_SA_Pricing_Release_Date_What_You_Need_to_Know&amp;utm_content=Playstation_5_SA_Pricing_Release_Date_What_You_Need_to_Know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>best prices on Xbox One, PS4, PC, and Switch games<\/b><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<b>on PriceCheck!<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/categories\/200\/Games?utm_source=blog.pricecheck.co.za&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=blog_Playstation_5_SA_Pricing_Release_Date_What_You_Need_to_Know&amp;utm_content=Playstation_5_SA_Pricing_Release_Date_What_You_Need_to_Know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21641\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Buttons_ViewOffers.png\" alt=\"view offers\" width=\"283\" height=\"54\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Buttons_ViewOffers.png 550w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Buttons_ViewOffers-300x57.png 300w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Buttons_ViewOffers-536x105.png 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playstation South Africa has confirmed the price of the standard PS5 and digital-only PS5 model will be\u00a0R11,999 and R9,999 respectively when they launch in SA on 19 November 2020. Playstation 5 standard edition &#8211; R11,999 Playstation 5 Digital-Only Discless model &#8211; R9,999 The &#8216;higher&#8217; price as compared to the straight conversion from the US dollar<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/playstation-5-sa-pricing-release-date-what-you-need-to-know\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":28477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[2684,3161,378,639,4667,4666,6516,6515,6431,718,1458],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Ps5-console-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29340"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29340"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29346,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29340\/revisions\/29346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}