Sony bets on subscriptions as memory shortage coincides with PS5 price hikes
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Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki says the memory shortage arrived at a convenient time after PS5 price hikes, signaling a shift toward monetizing the existing PlayStation user base through PS Plus rather than aggressive hardware sales, as the ecosystem reaches about 125 million monthly users and hardware costs rise.
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