Where PlayStation games are cheapest, and where you are paying a premium

By Pranay. Figures read from the ps-store-db database on 13 September 2026.

I price the same games in 54 PlayStation Stores every day, and the gap between the cheapest and the dearest is much wider than I expected before I started measuring it. Take the list price of every game a store sells, compare it to the United States price of that same game, and take the middle of those comparisons. That one number tells you what a store charges relative to the US, and it runs from 73 in Ukraine to 122 in Switzerland.

To be clear about the method, because it changes how you should read the table: I convert every price to US dollars at the day's exchange rate, I only compare games that both stores actually sell, and I ignore anything under 5 dollars in the US, because rounding on cheap games makes the ratio jump around. Discounts are excluded. This is the shelf price, not today's sale.

The cheapest stores

100 means the store charges what the United States charges. 73 means 27% below it.

The way I read it, there are 2 different storylines running here:

• On one side, a handful of stores where publishers have genuinely set local prices. Ukraine at 73 and India at 78 are not currency noise. Somebody sat down and decided those markets get their own price.
• On the other side, the big developed markets sit within a few points of each other, because publishers set 1 dollar price and let the exchange rate do the rest.

Japan at 79 is the case I find most interesting, because it is not an emerging market and it is still 21% below the US. Part of that is a pricing decision made a long time ago that has never been fully undone, and the weak yen has widened it since. A Japanese buyer is getting the same download for meaningfully less than an American one, in a country with a comparable cost of living.

Where you are paying a premium

Switzerland at 122 is the one I would highlight. A buyer there pays roughly 22% more than a buyer in the US for the identical download, and this is a market with no local pricing at all. Most of the premium in this table is tax, which is baked into the displayed price in Europe and not in the US, so a part of that gap is not the publisher's doing. Even allowing for that, the spread between Ukraine and Switzerland is close to 49 points, and no tax rate explains all of it.

What I would take away from it

Obviously the honest caveat has to come first, because I do not want anyone reading this as a shopping guide: you buy from the store attached to your account's country, and you generally cannot move that at will. So this is not a list of stores to go and use. It is a picture of how unevenly PlayStation prices the same download around the world.

What I find genuinely interesting is that the regional pricing experiment is real but narrow. It shows up strongly in a small number of markets and barely at all in the rest, where a game is essentially 1 global price wearing a different currency. I would say that is the trend worth watching, because if publishers widen it, the price you see has much less to do with the game and much more to do with the passport attached to your account.

Every number here is computed live from the charts and prices this site records, so the article changes as the stores do.