New and Smaller PS5 Models Launch in November - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 10 October 2023 / 9,681 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced new and smaller PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Digital Edition models.
The new models will launch in Japan on November 10 and in the US on PlayStation Direct and at select retailers sometime in November. A worldwide rollout will follow in the months after.
The new PS5 has been reduced in volume by over 30 percent and weight by 18 percent and 24 percent compared to the previous models. The new models will have four separate cover panels, with the top two being glossy and the bottom two being a matte finish.
If you purchase the PS5 Digital Edition you can buy the Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc Drive for PS5 later for 79.99 USD | 119.99 EURO | 99.99 GBP | 11,980 JPY.
A horizontal stand will be included in all models, while a vertical stand will be available separately for 29.99 USD | 29.99 EURO | 24.99 GBP | 3,980 JPY.
Check out the pricing for the new PS5 models below:
- U.S.
- PS5 with Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive – 499.99 USD
- PS5 Digital Edition – 449.99 USD
- Europe
- PS5 with Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive – 549.99 EUR
- PS5 Digital Edition – 449.99 EUR
- U.K.
- PS5 with Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive – 479.99 GBP
- PS5 Digital Edition – 389.99 GBP
- Japan
- PS5 with Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive – 66,980 JPY (includes tax)
- PS5 Digital Edition – 59,980 JPY (includes tax)
View images of the new PS5 models below:
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Slim models are supposed to be cheaper.
Their primary competitor isn’t releasing one this season and Nintendo isn’t launching a new console until 2024, they have no price pressure at present time
bi bi good pay and cheap stuff.
They’ve still got this ugly, curved design. I keep my PS5 horizontal, and I like to set my controller on top when I’m not playing but it always slides off. So annoying. Wish they went with a simpler, sleek design like the Xbox Series consoles.
Besides price, this was one thing I was personally waiting for. They always simplify something in the looks with the slim model, but this actually seems fairly faithful to the original.
Yep. Still ugly. Pass.
Called it.
Now they only have to run a single production line for the Playstation and just add an optical drive to a SKU rather than retooling a factory and swapping between the two to keep up with supply/demand.
Should reduce manufacturing and logistics costs rather substantially.
Smart choice by Sony.
The only criticisms I can make though is that the drive is not a fully separate unit that could have been sold as an accessory to current Playstation 5 digital owners... It's form factor may also not be compatible with any future revisions of the PS5.
And of course the pricing.
Silicon is getting cheaper, they have reduced manufacturing/assembly/logistics costs, so I would hope that prices stayed static or reduce.
Now you have to buy the vertical stand separately, it's also less fluid than the og model. I'll keep my launch model kthxbye
Who knew that one day the million dollar question would be: can't electronics be made that don't require a stand whatsoever?
Well this is disappointing to me on several levels as someone who was waiting on PS5 Slim before I got a PS5. a. Slim models are usually cheaper, but this is the same price on physical and $50 more on digital than the current digital model, b. the only available shelf space I have could only fit the PS5 Slim in vertical orientation and the vertical stand costs an extra $30, and c. they kept the exact same styling which I'm not a big fan of. Guess I'll wait a few years until I can get the digital model on a Black Friday deal with the stand included for like $350 combined. Either that or just wait and get a PS6 if it has back compat.
Found the dimensions: 358mm x 96mm x 216 mm.
It's 32 mm shorter, but it still can't fit in my TV shelf...
3.2cm shorter or slimmer?
Shorter, it's only around 1 cm slimmer
20 second video on a random Tuesday.
That's a first for revealing your new console model.
The reason thy are not trying to make a splash because their is no need. Sony is still selling PS5 at full compacity so shipping a unit that cost them much less while still maintaining the same price point will allow them to make a decent margin on the sale of the hardware. This is not a consumer slim model for a cheaper price. This is a reduced priced hardware that allows Sony to increase their margins on hardware sales. If I was Sony, I would do the exact same thing. Its not like MS is eating up their marketshare so this is the time to start to actually make more money while your hardware is still hot.
So let me get this straight. They increased the price of the Digital Edition to $450 in the U.S, and in Japan both models are increasing in price (again). On top of that PS5 accessories are going up in Japan. WTF are Sony thinking? I already knew they weren't hitting their 25 million target, and this ain't helping. Do they really think they're that "premium"?
its called bidenomics (inflation)
The inflation argument holds no water when GPU, CPU, RAM, and storage prices have been dropping. On top of that Sony is using LESS material to make this slim PS5 model. There is no reason for a price increase, instead it should be a price decrease when it comes to these slim models that release years later.
At most the disc version should be $450 (helps my argument that Sony for a whole month had it on sale for this price). The digital version should be $350.
I have never seen a slim model release at the same price as the original and get a price increase.
I get that it is expensive but it is a cool idea. I always wondered how those rumors would turn out about the detachable drive but this is really cool. Price could be lower :)
Will probably get my hand on one of those before end of year.
Still horrible, still white, still the same price, but just smaller... Yeah right! Just keep it, then, while I keep my money for some who dont take people for brainless sheeps.
It's already more attractive from being smaller and consuming less power, so people will (have to) buy it even if the price doesn't drop.
That said, the shape still seems impractical to me, and so does the whole thing with multiple SKUs and selling a separate disc drive.
Additional space on the SSD it's a lot lighter and people complain about the +50 bucks jayzus
And once again, for all the people:
This is NOT a PS5 slim. This is a revision of the existing PS5. Sony NEVER said anything about "PS5 slim".
And no, the basic silicon in the PS5 did NOT get cheaper (check your graphic card prices in past years).
The only savings might be in the ssd. Prices dropped radically so Sony tossed their own product line and simply ordered a huge amount of one of the many conventional ssd drives.
There have been reduced weight revisions of the PS5 already this one is just also a light smaller (33%)
ps2 is king
No price drop and the digital is even more expensive!
Also the disc drive model is more expensive, if you have to buy the vertical stand separately...
Looks almost the same. Priced almost the same.
The first generation of PlayStation where I bought the original release model early and the first generation where I still feel it was the right decision.
Yet another baffling decision from Sony. Really feels like they are trying to test people's patience now.
A couple questions still need to be answered.
There was a reason they went with 825gb initially. Something to do with their custom I/O. Did they figure out how to make it work with 1tb now or did they strip out the surface mounted SSD and just stick a current M.2 drive in there? That would mean you have to replace your storage as opposed to simply adding to it.
If they moved the optical drive firmware and controller from the main board to the external board, would that allow it to work on an existing digital 5 with a dongle?
The SSD question is interesting; the PS5 original had a 12-channel design, and so its capacities were different from other SSDs that are almost 8-channels. You put 128GB NAND chips across 8 channels, you end up with 1024GB - or 1TB. You put 128GB across 12-channels, you get 1.5TB. So, Sony went with something in between. It could be they changed the interface to 8-channels, and increased the NAND interface or PCIe interface, to have it "even out" with original specs. Or, Sony has just put in more NAND per each 12 channel, and then disabled enough for overprivising that it equals out to 1TB. We would have to wait for a teardown to know for sure.
The other question though: no chance. It really looks like the detachable disc drive is never meant to be standalone, and slot into the design of the Slim PS5, so I can't see Sony ever making an official dongle for it.
They have gone with a cheaper, simpler, 8-channel NAND design and increased throughput to match the original specs.
It's no different than with a PC... Where manufacturers have used 4-6-8 channel designs for years, but constantly increase speeds even with the same PCI-E interface.
Sony's "custom I/O" isn't specific to the SSD in that the PS5 original shipped with, it's compatible with all SSD's, Sony won't let that cat out of it's little walled garden though.
Provided the new drives match or exceed the original drives in every performance metric, it's a non-issue.
The optical drive in the original disc-based console actually had the optical drive controller/mainboard as part of the optical drive module, it was a single chip design with an EEEPROM module if I recall from ifixit's tear down. - Obviously the console had it's own firmware to interface with it as well like on a PC.
One thing I also noticed that was not mentioned at all is power consumption. I'm guessing that means it is still using the same 6-nm SoC from the second revision released earlier. This overall seems like a very minimal effort for a "slim" release, but hopefully will improve logistics and supply on Sony's side.
Yeah, its still 6nm as lower nodes(5,4, etc) imply a much higher cost(something along hundreds of millions of dollars), therefore Sony kept the 6nm to keep the price low for their pocket but increased the price on buyers back.
Scumbag Sony.
I don't think is really going with this being a slim version, it is just an updated SKU
6nm was an easy port from the 7nm design and came with it an easy bonus of 15% smaller chip and a corresponding decrease to heat and power consumption.
Add on a few years and 6nm has matured, increasing yields and providing better electrical characteristics.
Going to an even smaller node would require a respin of the silicon... And that gets expensive.
AMD have the experience to manage the N5 process from TSMC, so it's only a matter of time before we get that shrink.
