Sony Confirms PS5 Slim for This Holiday Season

Wait a second, you can add on the Bluray drive to the slim PS5? Meaning you're not locked in to an all-digital console, but you can still upgrade later? That's a great idea, why is no one talking about this?

Sony finally gets to join the ranks of add-on-disc-player consoles: the Sega Megadrive, the N64DD, and this... thing.

No one's talking about it because it costs $30 more than just buying the physical version outright
- It really feels like a FOMO relief for people who want to go all digital. Just in case you want to get discs later.
  
  In other words, Sony wants you to buy digital and don't worry so much about it.
- Oh... then it's not that good of a deal. Cool tech, but not consumer friendly.
@HarkMahlberg @Omegamanthethird that sounds something Sony would never allow
That's a great idea, why is no one talking about this?

Because why would you buy a digital PS5 and a blu ray drive when you can just buy the disc PS5 and not have to deal with an external blu ray drive?

Just in time for the only game Sony has put out to make owning a PS5 worthwhile! (Fingers crossed Spiderman 2 is as good as its predecessors.)

EDIT - To be clear, spoken as someone who was lucky enough to get a PS5 on day 1 and almost never uses it. I like the Xbox controller and UI much better and... there just aren't many good exclusives. And a lot of the ones that are good end up on other systems anyways.

You're not wrong. In a year where there are entirely too many great releases on all consoles, I've only played two on my PS5 (Street Fighter 6 & Final Fantasy XVI)
- To be fair, FF16 is on my list of games to play... but like you said, too many great releases at once. I figure by the time I get around to it, maybe I can get a price break.
Not if you're willing to wait two years for it to come to PC.
- Patient gamers gang rejoice!
Demon's Souls is the first souls game that I have ever completed, I think it is an astounding part of the ps5 catalogue. Also, currently going through Ghost of Tsushima PS5 edition and at 4k60 that game is incredible.

Those are 2 experiences that I loved that are only available on PS5.
- Literally both games that came out on other consoles that the PS5 so you don't actually need a PS5 to play either of them.

Hermes confirms Barbados Slim is a mahogany god.

Can I see an OG PS5 next to it for scale? It's hard to visualize how much smaller it is.

https://www.ign.com/articles/see-how-the-ps5-slim-compares-side-by-side-with-the-launch-version-and-xbox

Completely trivial point, but a non-USAist I don't think I'll ever stop finding the phrase "the Holiday Season" weird. If you mean Christmas because you want people to buy it as a Christmas present, then just say Christmas! I guess it's to be non-religious but I just find it funny to say "the holiday season" to mean winter when the season that everyone goes on holiday is summer.

In the US, there are multiple holidays people get together for. Halloween (to a lesser degree), Thanksgiving, Christmas (or Hanukkah), New Years. Extended families will often get together multiple times for these and then not see each other again until the next year. Thanksgiving really kicks off the retail season with black Friday, but there's also a lot of time off during the winter time from school and work.

It really is a season with Christmas at the center of it. A lot of our "Christmas" songs don't even mention Christmas. It's just songs about winter.
- That much makes sense, but when it's companies releasing products they hope will be bought as Christmas presents then it's just odd to hear them skirting round the word "Christmas". Unless you guys buy each other PS5s for new year?
I think of it like there's more than just Christmas being celebrated at the end of the year, so to include them all it's easier to just say the holiday season
- Yeah I get it, it's just one of those phrases that sounds weird to the non-American ear
Where I live we have a bunch of small holidays in the spring. Winter only has the one big one. Spring seems more the season for them
In a lot of countries (Northern Hemisphere) Summer is the holiday season, but that has never been my experience in the US. So it might not be as strange from that perspective.
It is courteous to other religions by not assuming everyone is Christian, and doesn't hurt me at all, so why not?
- As I said in another reply, yeah it makes sense, just sounds odd. Maybe it's because here in Britain Christmas is kind of a thing for everyone almost entirely independent of religion. Cultural differences and all that.

Sony doesn't even call it "PS5 Slim".

Good to see all the rumors finally confirmed, feels like there's been speculation about a slim model since the PS5 launched. Hopefully, they've sorted out the worst of the supply issues and the PS5 Slim won't be as hard to find as the PS5 was when it first launched.

Not much reason to replace my current one, but many reasons to pick up OG console covers now if they're going to be phased out in November.

They literally just announced three more cover colors, (got the announcement email yesterday), I doubt they’ll phase them out that quickly. Even if they decide to go fast, I’d think they at least be smart enough to wait until after the holidays.
- Saw that but these won't work on the new model so I doubt they make more. Unless of course they're for the revision but I don't know how that'd work with the new design.
  
  I'm flashing back to Xbox 360 faceplates.
Would you normally replace a perfectly functional console with a smaller but otherwise identical machine? Do what you want with your own cash but that's a very decadent purchase!
- Exactly- though I did trade up my OG PS2 for a slim back in the day. The OG had served its time (~5 years) and was ready to go.

So this is a de facto price increase? From a manufacturer that just reported a record high annual profit? 175GB (the slightly increased storage) hasn't been worth $50 in years.

This generation sucks. I was already annoyed that we probably weren't going to see price drops with this or the Switch, but I certainly didn't see a price increase for an unproven hardware revision coming.

At least for the US, the price increase is just for digital version. And honestly, I'm certain the old digital had a profit margin hit in comparison to the disc drive version. It was probably worth it to lock people out of discs. This version will have a disc drive attachment option, so they've just given up on their all-digital endeavor.

Aside from that, $50 for 175 GB SSD isn't a great value. The extra 175GB SSD is a significant increase. And for the disc version, that's purely an upgrade.