GameStop lists used PlayStation 5 Pro consoles at $1,499
GameStop is selling pre-owned PlayStation 5 Pro consoles for up to $1,499 — more than double the machine's 2024 launch price, with third-party sellers matching the used market within hours.
Used PS5 Pro consoles now cost more than new ones
GameStop has repriced its pre-owned PlayStation 5 Pro stock, listing traded-in and refurbished consoles at $1,399.99 for the disc-free configuration and $1,499.99 with the detachable disc drive included. The change appeared on the chain's store page after an internal notice went to staff, and third-party sellers on Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart have since lifted their own listings to match.
Sony sells the PlayStation 5 Pro at a recommended retail price of $699.99, and it launched at that figure in September 2024. A used unit at $1,499.99 is therefore more than double the launch price and between 60 and 66 per cent above today's RRP. Sony's own direct store is out of stock, and the disc drive add-on is unavailable there as well, so the second-hand market is currently the only reliable route to the hardware.
One game is doing the pulling
The spike lands squarely on Grand Theft Auto VI. Rockstar's game is advertised as PS5 Pro Enhanced, which means buyers chasing the sharpest console version of the biggest release of the generation have exactly one upgrade path. Add a memory and storage crunch driven by the AI data-centre build-out, and Sony's earlier PS5 price rises, and the Pro has become the scarcest part of the current generation.
The squeeze goes beyond Sony
Microsoft has increased Xbox console prices repeatedly over the past two years and has retired a storage tier, while Nintendo has just imposed the first United States price rise on the Switch 2, with its president warning that a long-term memory shortage may pressure profitability. The PlayStation 5 Pro is simply the visible end of a hardware market where components are being bid away from games consoles.
Our opinion
A two-year-old console selling used for more than double its launch price is not a stock problem, it is a pricing signal, and GameStop is reading it correctly: when supply is fixed and one game defines the upgrade path, the seller prices to scarcity. What makes this uncomfortable is who absorbs it. The PlayStation 5 Pro was pitched at people who wanted the definitive version of the biggest games, and those are precisely the buyers now facing a second-hand price above the original retail figure, with a disc drive costing extra on top. Sony and Microsoft have spent this generation teaching players that waiting saves money; a market where waiting costs more is a genuine change in the deal.