Sony is moving Mexico's PlayStation Store to pesos, and GTA 6 gets pricier for it

Sony has confirmed on its own support pages that the PlayStation Store in Mexico will start billing in Mexican pesos instead of US dollars. The store goes down for maintenance from August 18, and peso pricing takes over on August 20; Honduras and Nicaragua switch in the same first wave. On paper it is a win for shoppers, who have long complained about paying in dollars with no local tax shown, and Mexico's consumer watchdog Profeco had pushed Sony to make exactly this change.

The catch is the exchange rate. Sony is locking in 20.5 pesos to the dollar, well above the real market rate of around 17.5, so the switch quietly works out as roughly a 20 percent markup. For GTA 6 that means the $79.99 Standard edition lands near 1,640 pesos, while the $99.99 Ultimate edition pushes past 2,000 pesos, more than Mexican players would pay if the store simply used the going rate. It is the second Mexican flashpoint around the game's launch in two weeks. Two lawmakers recently said they would take Sony's disc phase-out to the country's antitrust regulator; this time the friction is about the price on the shelf, not the shelf disappearing. Rockstar's game arrives November 19.