Out of all the boardroom discussions, raising the price was actually the most consumer-friendly suggestion from Sony. Others included:

• Deleting the original version from users' libraries.
• Re-printing the original on disc, but including a rootkit.
• Compiling a list of original version owners and leaving their personal details in plaintext on the web until they upgrade.
• Downgrading the original to 480p, telling users the original graphics were just a bug, and selling the higher-res upgrade.

I honestly don't understand why they didn't go the other direction and make this game free with a PS5 Pro purchase. It's super old and the remaster could be a great tech demo.

I guess people will buy it anyways, so there we go.

Thank god for physical and PC, you can get it for about £7 used £14 new on ebay funny how they're trying to get of physical...

So my physical version must surely have gone up I'm value too then. What an investment

/s

Surprising, however they announced existing owners can upgrade for $10, so perhaps the move is to raise the price for new buyers to make it equivalent to buying the full price remaster, while making it cheap to existing owners.

In Australia they've bumped it from au$25 (with periodic discounts to au$12.50) to au$60.

Thats a 140% increase!