Sony makes the PS5 lighter simply as the value goes up

Sony has as soon as once more quietly launched a revised PS5 mannequin that’s extra light-weight. Press Start, an Australian-based gaming web site, reviews that each the disc and digital variations of the PS5 are so much lighter now, after new fashions started showing in Australia this week.

The new disc mannequin (CFI-1202A) now weighs 3.9kg (8.6 kilos), a 7 p.c discount from the 2021 revision (4.2kg / 9.2 kilos) and an excellent larger 13 p.c discount from the unique mannequin (4.5kg / 9.9 kilos). The digital PS5 has an identical weight reduction, with the 2022 revision now weighing 3.4kg (7.5 kilos), down 13 p.c from the unique weight of three.9kg (8.6 kilos). The new fashions imply the disc model of the PS5 now weighs the identical as the unique digital PS5 mannequin.

Press Start isn’t certain why each fashions have dropped in weight once more. Sony launched revised PS5 fashions final yr and a change in heatsink made up for your entire weight discount of 300 grams (0.6 kilos). We’ll want to attend for somebody to tear down the brand new PS5 fashions to search out out what has really modified inside.

Sony’s new PS5 fashions come simply as the corporate hikes the value for its consoles outdoors the US. Sony is rising its PS5 costs within the UK, Europe, Japan, China, Australia, Mexico, and Canada. Prices are leaping by 10 p.c in Europe, 21 p.c in Japan, and by round 6 p.c within the UK as inflation charges impression Sony’s gaming enterprise.