Japanese players are begging for Final Fantasy 16 on Steam after the PS5 price hike

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Sony may be making PC gamers out of Final Fantasy fans

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Japanese players have gotten Final Fantasy 16 trending on Twitter in the wake of newly-announced PS5 price hikes, and many of them are hoping for a PC port so they won't have to shell out for new console hardware.

Earlier today, Sony announced that the price of both PS5 models is increasing worldwide (though, notably, there will be no price increase in the US). As of September 15, the standard PS5 will cost ¥60,478 yen, up from ¥49,980 yen. The digital model will cost ¥49,478 yen, up from ¥39,980 yen. That's a 20% increase, one of the most substantial of the worldwide price hikes.

Complaints about the PS5 price increase aren't exclusive to Final Fantasy fans, either. The broader Japanese trend around the PS5 price hike is much bigger, and many of those fans are specifically upset that the change is coming while scalpers continue to dominate the market for the console.

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Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.