Playstation 5 Slim Announced, Out This November

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced a slimmer and lighter PlayStation 5 system that will be available starting this November.

This new model of the PS5 has its volume reduced by more than 30% and weighs 18% and 24% compared to previous models of the system. Just like the original, it will come with one with a disc tray, and one without, which is called the Digital Edition.

But the cool thing about this version of the digital edition is that you can buy the system’s HD Blue-ray Disc Drive separetely as it will be priced at $79.99.

When this model becomes available, they intend to dry out the remaining stock of the current model of the PS5 and make this model the only one available.

Here is the price range for both versions of the PlayStation 5 Slim.

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)

Here are the specifications of the new models.

PlayStation 5 Slim

External dimensions

• Approx. 358 × 96 × 216 mm(width × height × depth)

Mass

• Approx. 3.2 kg

CPU

• x86-64-AMD Ryzen™ “Zen 2”

• 8 Cores / 16 Threads

• Variable frequency, up to 3.5 GHz

GPU

AMD Radeon™ RDNA 2-based graphics engine

Ray Tracing Acceleration

Variable frequency, up to 2.23 GHz (10.3 TFLOPS)

System Memory

• GDDR6 16GB

• 448GB/s Bandwidth

SSD

• 1TB

• 5.5GB/s Read Bandwidth (Raw)

PS5 Game Disc

• Ultra HD Blu-ray™, up to 100GB/disc

Video Out

• Support of 4K 120Hz TVs, 8K TVs, VRR (specified by HDMI ver.2.1)

Audio

• “Tempest” 3D AudioTech

Input/OutputFront of Console

• USB Type-C® port (Super-Speed USB 10Gbps)

• USB Type-C® port (Hi-Speed USB)

Input/OutputBack of Console

• USB Type-A port (Super-Speed USB 10Gbps) x2

Networking

• Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T)Wi-fi: IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax

PlayStation 5 Slim Digital Edition

External dimensions

• Approx. 358 × 80 × 216 mm(width × height × depth)

Mass

Approx. 2.6 kg

CPU

• x86-64-AMD Ryzen™ “Zen 2”

• 8 Cores / 16 Threads

• Variable frequency, up to 3.5 GHz

GPU

• AMD Radeon™ RDNA 2-based graphics engine

• Ray Tracing Acceleration

• Variable frequency, up to 2.23 GHz (10.3 TFLOPS)

System Memory

• GDDR6 16GB

• 448GB/s Bandwidth

SSD

• 1TB

• 5.5GB/s Read Bandwidth (Raw)

PS5 Game Disc

• Ultra HD Blu-ray™, up to 100GB/disc

BD/DVD drive

• Disc Drive port

Video Out

• Support of 4K 120Hz TVs, 8K TVs, VRR (specified by HDMI ver.2.1)

Audio

• “Tempest” 3D AudioTech

Input/OutputFront of Console

• USB Type-C® port (Super-Speed USB 10Gbps)

• USB Type-C® port (Hi-Speed USB)

Input/OutputBack of Console

• USB Type-A port (Super-Speed USB 10Gbps) x2

Networking

• Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T)Wi-fi: IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax

This is Sony’s first major change to the look and design of the PS5 system since it was released in 2020. The new PlayStation 5 Slim will be out in November in the US but no exact date was given.

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