In keeping with authorized paperwork from Microsoft filed as part of its present battle within the courts with the FTC, a PS5 Slim model of the console is due out later this 12 months, and on the similar worth level of the present PS5 Digital Version console, $399.99.
Whereas Microsoft is likely to be spoiling Sony’s day with this information popping out, it’s not the primary time we’ve heard a few Slim console, and it’s additionally what Sony has carried out with all of their consoles for the reason that unique PlayStation.
Within the case of the PS5, we’ve heard stories of a slim mannequin being one offered with a removable disc drive, and that it’ll be a brand new design for the console.
We’ve additionally heard that it’s due out in Q3 2023, which is absolutely the large factor that Microsoft is spoiling. Everybody anticipated a Slim console in some unspecified time in the future, we simply now have a extra strong thought of when to anticipate it.
After all timelines can change and we might see the discharge of the Slim pushed again into 2024, however with September typically being one other level within the 12 months the place Sony likes to placed on an enormous present, it could possibly be the case that it’ll be introduced then and launched within the Fall.
Particularly now that we now have it confirmed that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is the large Fall recreation this 12 months with its October launch date.
Pairing it with new {hardware} that, if stories are to be believed, is just about “a brand new console totally,” makes numerous enterprise sense.
What’s unlucky although is that those self same stories additionally at the moment say the removable disc-drive seemingly gained’t be appropriate with the present PS5 Digital Version model of the console.
It might’ve been nice for these with a digital console who maybe wished they may seize some video games on disc to have the choice of simply getting a disc drive with out shopping for an entire new console.
Hopefully that final half isn’t true, and the disc-drive can be one thing all PS5 customers might reap the benefits of, save in fact for these with a disc drive already of their console.
Supply – [The Verge]