A technical breakdown has shown exactly what Sony has changed in the new PS5 Slim Digital Edition model that quietly rolled out in Europe recently. This, of course, is the controversial PS5 Slim model that features downgraded storage with no price reduction. However, there are quite a lot of other changes inside and out too, including a visual update that may appease some prospective PS5 buyers.
Sony has a long history of making subtle updates to PlayStation consoles, often aimed at shaving off manufacturing costs while keeping performance at par with existing models. Traditionally, these periodic model revisions made PlayStation consoles cheaper for consumers over time, but the PS5 has bucked this trend so far. It first went on sale nearly five years ago and has seen multiple hardware revisions since. Owing to tumultuous global economic conditions and difficulties in reducing chip sizes, the PS5 is more expensive to buy in 2025 than it was at launch — a previously unheard-of phenomenon for a console.
Sony recently courted controversy by introducing a new revision of the PS5 Slim Digital Edition in Europe that gets a smaller 825GB SSD instead of the prior 1TB drive. YouTuber...
