Sony has launched a new PS5 Slim with less storage, but it costs the same as the old PS5 Slim

Sony has launched a new PS5 model in Europe. It has less storage than the PS5 Slim, but costs the same.
You read that correctly. Welcome to the world of bizarre console prices.
Sony’s new PS5 is a revision of the PS5 Slim. The Slim version which was launched in 2023 replaced the original PS5 from 2020, with some hardware upgrades. Austin Evans, a popular tech YouTuber, has posted a video analyzing the new PS5 Slim, the CFI 2100 series (CFI-2116), which he purchased from Germany. His findings were quite shocking.
The revised edition of the PS5 Slim does not have 1TB of storage, it has an 825GB SSD. But it still costs €499 in Europe. Yup, same price even though it has 175GB lesser space.
Here’s the thing. The original PlayStation 5 launched in 2020 with 825GB of storage. It came with 667 GB of usable storage, which is exactly the amount that this new version has too. Sony did upgrade the old model with an actual 1TB SSD, of which 848GB was accessible to the user. Now, the new model has the same amount of storage. Maybe they had some old SSDs lying around?
According to Evans’ video, the new PS5 has a matte finish, instead of the glossy design of the original. It doesn’t have the disc drive, so it’s like the original Slim model, a digital edition. Sony’s new PS5 weighs 2400g, which is around 100g less than the PS5 slim. It’s not a handheld, the weight doesn’t really matter, but for those interested, the new version’s internals have been changed, the heat pipe design has been modified, the fan’s shroud is all plastic, and the motherboard’s design is also lighter.
That all sounds fine, but it doesn’t make sense that the storage has been downgraded, while the price has remained unchanged. You can still buy the 1TB PS5 Slim for the same price. So, this 27% storage downgrade is what? A stealth price hike to confuse buyers?
As if it wasn’t bad enough that the prices of the PS5 were hiked recently in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.K., and later in the U.S.
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