Sony’s Updated Ps5 Slim Launches With Less Storage In Europe

The digital-only console says it has 825GB of retention correct connected nan box. | Image: Austin Evans via YouTube

Sony launched an updated PlayStation 5 integer console successful Europe, but alternatively of offering 1TB of retention for €499, it now comes pinch conscionable an 825GB Solid-State Drive (SSD) astatine nan aforesaid price, arsenic reported earlier by Eurogamer. YouTuber Austin Evans discovered nan alteration successful a teardown video posted earlier this week, confirming an earlier report from gaming bargain huntsman billbil-kun.

Sony primitively launched nan slimmed-down type of nan PS5 successful 2023, coming pinch an upgraded 1TB SSD, arsenic opposed to nan original PS5’s 825GB of soul storage. At launch, nan digital-only console costs $449.99 earlier Sony raised nan price crossed nan globe, bringing it to $499.99 successful nan US and €499.99 successful Europe.

Though nan refreshed PS5 says it comes pinch 825GB connected nan box, Evan recovered that nan console only has 667.2GB of usable retention owed to nan operating strategy and different apps included pinch nan console. Meanwhile, nan older, digital-only type of nan console pinch a 1TB SSD has 848GB of usable storage.

Aside from nan retention change, nan updated PS5 comes pinch a caller matte finish, on pinch smaller components that make it astir 100 grams lighter than its predecessor. Sony hasn’t provided a logic for nan change, but its recent post astir raising prices cites a “challenging economical environment.” There’s still nary connection connected whether this updated console will motorboat extracurricular Europe.