PS5 Digital Edition is Reportedly Getting a Smaller SSD - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 September 2025 / 7,202 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment is reportedly going to decrease the size of the SSD in the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition in Europe, according to reliable leaker Billbil-Kun.
The current PS5 Digital Edition comes with a 1TB SSD and the leaker claims a new version that comes with an 825GB SSD will go on sale on September 13 in Europe. The leaker also states despite the smaller SSD the price of the PS5 Digital Edition will remain the same in Europe at €499.
Billbil-Kun added the standard PlayStation 5 with a disc drive will still come with a 1TB SSD, at least for now.
It is speculated the reason for the decreased storage is to avoid another price increase in Europe. The PS5 Digital Edition was originally priced at €399 when the console launched in 2020, before it increased to €449, then €499 in April 2025. That is a €100 in about 4 and a half years.
As of now the lower storage size has only been spotted in Europe.
Sony Interactive Entertainment increased the price of the PS5 in the US on August 21 by $50 on all three models due to "a challenging economic environment."
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Scumbag behavior, pure and simple.
A Sony employee did not like your comment, lol.
We're evolving backwards
If we keep tolerating it, they will all keep pushing that line, little by little because that's what they do. They are businesses. They care only about making money. It's on us to change things, not them.
Fuck Sony
First shrinkflation came for my Reese's peanut butter cups, now for the PS5.
Sony really pulling all the plugs to destroy all the credit the PS4 generation build.
Multiple price increases, less games, more expensive PS+ with arguably worse free games. Gloating on profit.
and it won't hurt them one bit because no-one else is there to capitalise.
People will downvote you but that's basically what happens when it's a two company market and neither wants to compete. For high-end console gaming its Xbox vs Playstation. Neither competes in price drops so console prices go up over time instead of down.
You're half right. Sony has desire to compete but MS doesn't and Nintendo only cares about handhelds now
I think Sony far prefers having a monopoly instead of competition. Anyway the console war has ended and because of it the customer needs to pay a lot more, or will opt out to pc.
Is this why the Xbox and Nintendo Switch went up in price too? Because the 'console war is over'. No I don't think you are thinking this through. They want lower prices because the platform is the medium for subscrption sales. There benifit of making $20-50 (or even $100 in the case of Xbox)... is more hurtful than helpful to the bottom line if your hope is to attact more subscriptions. The goal should be to get the prices as low as possible. Clearly there are outside forces that are making it hard for all hardware vendors. The real objective reasons for the price increases are:
Tariffs
AI
Its a cascade effect. Not all of us are mindless hate drones lol.
Is ~200GB of SSD space save so that much money to avoid the increase ?
Also it's still baffling to me how PS5 is tied with the PS4 in sales, 5 years after launch, with not 1 but 2 price increases, not just in Europe but everywhere ..
I've got a new video discussing this report. Has shrinkflation finally hit the console market?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBoZLcCBJzY
This just seems stupid, like why bother? It's 200gb. Are the 5 year old HDs that much cheaper to produce? How does anyone in this industry expect to launch the next generation and prices to not be below £1k for consoles at this rate? Stupid.
Greed knows no bounds, here in Brazil the biggest physical media printing company just blocked popular market places from having access to physical games pre orders, probably because those places had good coupouns and they want to keep prices high for launch so people are forced to pay full price with no discounts. Insanely dystopian stuff becoming reality every single day.
I am glad I am not a mug; fuck Sony, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel and whoever else.
Next up €499 PS6 with no controller option
Not that bad until I saw it is still the same price as the bigger one... Whats the point for consumers to care about this at all?
Without competition, they're free to do as they wish.
Guess the question is what would be competition? X-Box? Nintendo? Valve?
Until consumers smarten up anyway. Will they?
What doesn't work is calling consumers dumb for making a choice you don't approve of.
Not when they're all complaining about the problems, only to then allow those problems to continue by buying into what they're apparently so against.
What should we do? Praise them and cheer them on for punching themselves in the face?
This sucks but sadly we're all going to accept this regardless, just like how millions have accepted Nintendo's game price hike.
Big corporations will always find ways to screw us over here and there. The best way we can fight back is with our wallets.
HahahahahaAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA glorious current gen modern greedy crap,and yet people still heavily supports it.
Thank god i got out
I hate this gen so much
A 1Tb SSD is $100 or so...
The only thing I an imagine is that no-one buys <1Tb SSDs anymore, so all the old chip stock is going cheap.
Yikes. Not good. Games are only going to get bigger too.
Just glad that they're not increasing the price in Europe again
Not yet.
Offering less for the same price is effectively a price increase lol
