Although the Sony PlayStation 5 has been launched in three different versions since the end of 2020, the exterior design generally remains the same as it was just launched, mainly including fine-tuning of the PCB design, heat sink and chip, but according to Microsoft and Activision Blizzard’s combined court documents allege that Sony will launch the PlayStation 5 Slim at the end of 2023, and the price is expected to fall at the same $399 as the digital version when it was launched.
▲Compared with the earliest announced motherboard design, the 1200-type mainframe not only uses a new process power-saving chip, but also greatly reduces the area of the motherboard
If speculated from the product price, the PS5 Slim should be the previously rumored PS5 mainframe that uses a modular optical drive, so that Sony can further simplify the production of product components and focus on the production of a single body mechanism; in addition, for Sony, the current In 2022, the second minor revision of the 1200-type mainframe will be a more power-efficient chip, a smaller motherboard and a simplified design of the heat sink will also pave the way for the PS5 Slim. Sony can continue to use the internal components of the 1200-type with a new shell, and by reducing the size of the mainframe The housing volume further reduces production costs.