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Sony Confirms PS5 Slim for This Holiday Season
(www.ign.com)
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.
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?
@HarkMahlberg @Omegamanthethird that sounds something Sony would never allow
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.
As a die-hard, I bought it Day 1 and got my $70 worth. But after I 100%'d it and looked at my recently played, I realized the only other game was Chicory which I played around Christmas time..
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.
Are you talking about the original Demon's Souls? From what I've heard, there are so many QOL improvements they can't really be treated as the same game.
Also, Ratchet and Clank made me happy to have a PS5 (at that time the PC release hadn't been announced).
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I played through Demon's Souls on a ps3 emulator and then the PS5 version. The PS3 version with a 60fps+1440p mod is great but the new version is still worth getting a PS5 for imo
Can I see an OG PS5 next to it for scale? It's hard to visualize how much smaller it is.
Hermes confirms Barbados Slim is a mahogany god.
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.
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.
Sony doesn't even call it "PS5 Slim".
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.
This guy made a slimmer one. He cheated with the cooling, yes – but still – not bad for just one guy.
Most of the extra size is from cooling. So it's not surprising that someone could make it slimmer by messing with that.
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