Cross-gen releases are often sold as several separate SKUs: a PS4 edition, a PS5 edition, and an upgrade bundle between them. In the US, the PS5 edition usually runs $69.99 while the PS4 edition of the same game is $59.99. That raises an obvious question: if a cheap region saves 30% on the PS5 edition, does it save the same 30% on the PS4 edition too?
Sony prices editions separately, not proportionally
Each SKU - PS4 edition, PS5 edition, upgrade bundle - gets its own regional price, not a percentage derived from another edition’s price. That means the regional discount on the PS5 version and the PS4 version of the same game are two separate numbers. They often land close together, but they can diverge, especially if one edition’s regional pricing wasn’t updated on the same schedule as the other.
The gap is usually small, but not guaranteed
For most cross-gen releases, the savings percentage in a given region is close for both editions - within a few percentage points, not a multiple. But there are exceptions: if the PS4 edition launched earlier and had its regional prices revised separately from the PS5 edition (for example, after a late-lifecycle price cut on PS4), the gap can end up meaningfully different. Assuming “the discount is the same for both versions” isn’t safe - it needs to be checked for the specific edition you want.
The upgrade bundle is its own pricing question
If you already own the PS4 edition and are looking at the upgrade fee to the PS5 edition, that fee has its own regional price, and it doesn’t necessarily scale the same way the base editions do. In some regions the upgrade fee ends up proportionally cheaper than in your home region; in others the gap is minimal, because upgrade SKUs get repriced less often than the main editions.
How to compare the edition you actually want, not the game “on average”
Manual comparison gets harder here because the PS4 and PS5 versions usually live on separate product pages, so checking each one across 4-5 regional store tabs means doing the work twice. The PS Prices Hub panel handles this the same way for any product page you have open: it shows the price of whichever edition you’re currently viewing across ~16 regions in your currency, so you can check the PS4 edition, the PS5 edition, and the upgrade bundle one at a time without redoing the currency math each time.
What to actually check before buying
Look at the price of the specific SKU you’re about to buy - don’t extrapolate a discount from one edition to another. If you’re choosing between editions, compare both in the region you’re considering separately: sometimes the PS4 edition plus an upgrade bundle in a cheap region costs more than just buying the PS5 edition outright. For the general rules on which regions tend to be cheapest and why, see our piece on the cheapest PlayStation Store regions.