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The story
Sony has announced a new-purchase campaign for the “PS5 Digital Edition, Japanese-only.” Anyone who buys an eligible PS5 console and applies by March 31, 2027 will get their standard 1-year manufacturer warranty extended by an extra year, for 2 years of coverage total. On 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board, the choice to offer a warranty extension instead of a price cut drew comments like “isn’t this a sign of a console on its last legs that’s run out of budget?” and “are margins so tight they can’t even discount the console itself?” Others took it more simply as just a statement about failure rates and repair support, so opinions on the campaign’s real purpose were divided.
What people said
Buy an eligible PS5 console and apply for the campaign by Wednesday, March 31, 2027, and your standard 1-year manufacturer warranty gets extended by a year — 2 years of coverage total!
Details here ⇒ play.st/4xjbcKR
It's the Digital Edition (no disc drive to begin with)
Lol, this
Do they even realize themselves it's a dying platform?
I can really feel their resolve not to spend a single yen, campaign or not lol
now it's clear they can't drop the price by even one yen, campaign or not
It really has that "scraped this together out of nothing" feel
If so, that's still better than some boring pack-in bundle
It's covered, but apparently the service ends after two repairs
Well, console repairs usually get resolved in one shot anyway,
so it's basically one repair for the controller and one for the console
The other way around —
they won't lower the price
I'd bet the whole crap-station console (derogatory nickname for PlayStation) will be gone too
That's insane…
Was there ever a time it wasn't insane?
The second coming of the AIBO route (Sony's robot dog that got discontinued, then lived on mainly through legacy repair support)
That gives you 3 years of coverage total and two controller swaps
Is there a good way to break a controller on purpose?
Mine's covered but it just won't die… though the battery life has gotten worse
Are you talking about the Product Liability Act rule requiring repair parts to be kept in stock for 2 years after announcing end of production?
It's gotten to the weird point where Nintendo costs more than Sony
I think the PS4 was kind of the same way
Or wait, was it about the same price?
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Extended-warranty campaigns are a promotional tactic manufacturers commonly reach for on products where price cuts are hard to justify, and this isn’t unique to the PS5. Many thread comments speculated that “disc-based games might vanish from stores in two years,” but that’s just the posters’ own speculation — Sony hasn’t officially announced any end to production or sales. Japan’s Product Liability Act also requires manufacturers to keep repair parts on hand for a set period after production ends, so the long-term warranty can also be read as part of that kind of support setup. Whether to view the extended warranty as a “sign of a dying console” or a “statement of long-term support” split opinion within the thread itself, and it’s not something the campaign wording alone can settle.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “[Bad News for Nintendo Fanboys] New Purchase Campaign Launched for the “PS5 Digital Edition, Japanese-Only”!.”
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