Overview
- Sony announced on Tuesday that a Midnight Black PlayStation 5 Digital Edition will open preorders in Japan on October 20 and go on sale there on November 19.
- The console is priced at ¥55,000 and Sony will sell a matching Midnight Black external Blu‑ray disc drive separately for ¥11,980.
- This Midnight Black unit is the Japan‑only version of the subsidized Digital Edition and requires a PlayStation account set to Japan with the system language fixed to Japanese.
- Hardware and features match the existing Digital Edition — the change is cosmetic and the bundle includes a Midnight Black DualSense — while global customers can approximate the look using Sony's Midnight Black covers and controller sold worldwide.
- Sony created the Japan‑only, lower‑priced model to deter exports driven by exchange‑rate advantages and to support local availability in a market where Nintendo remains dominant, a strategy that could affect import demand and regional inventory decisions.