Rumors of a slimmer PlayStation 5 have been swirling for over a year, but really caught fire when Insider-Gaming founder Tom Henderson reported that a PS5 with a removable disk drive is coming this year. This has clearly led to Microsoft doing some digging themselves.
In one of the newly published the documents from the Activision Blizzard King/Microsoft and FTC lawsuit, which is expected to get a verdict tomorrow, Microsoft says it “expects” Sony to launch a so-called PlayStation 5 Slim this year:
“PlayStation similarly sells a more affordable Digital Edition at $399.99, and that
expected to launch a PlayStation 5 Slim later this year at the same reduced price.”
It’s impossible to tell if this is a reference to Henderson’s report, the other rumors, or what Microsoft itself has found out, but it’s interesting anyway. Especially when a PS5 Pro is also mentioned further down the article when they try to convince the judge that consumers don’t care about performance:
“PlayStation currently offers two different versions of the PlayStation 5 – one with a Blu-Ray player for physical media (Standard) and one without (Digital) – and is expected to launch further differentiated Pro and Slim models in the near future. These models differs from the Xbox offerings.”
The PS5 with removable disk drive is still supposed to launch in September, so we won’t have to wait long for an official unveiling and to see if Microsoft’s price expectations are correct or not.
2023-07-04 18:57:45
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