This is a policy that Sony has been implementing in the market for more than 20 years and that consists of giving users a break after the launch of the first model to buy it and later deciding on a more compact one. small and that lowers its price significantly to accommodate itself within what we could consider as the final route of the generation. It sounds strange with the little time that has passed, but PS5 slim will not be an exception.
Operation bikini for PS5
Surely everyone takes it for granted that PlayStation 5 will have a slim version sooner or later (there are even news that points to a launch in the third quarter of 2023) that will hit the market to meet two very specific objectives: update your hardware with more modern and cheaper components, which allow a reduction in the size and the final price of the console and that, in addition, are usually more efficient and functional than the originals of the model that usually goes down in history with the name of fat .
Except in the case of the first PlayStation, where the entire generation lived with the same design (except for small tweaks in components and features) until the year 2000, when the famous PS One arrived, smaller and with an LCD screen (optional). ) built-in so you can take it anywhere. Premiere that coincided, by the way, with the launch of PlayStation 2 in that same year so we would not know whether to consider it a Slim version or not, or simply a cheaper alternative to the then new generation.
Slim versions: a Sony tradition
Now, what arguments can we use to think that 2023 will be the year in which we will see a new slimmer and cheaper PlayStation 5 in stores? Well, we simply have to look to the past to understand that this generation, even despite the exceptions that we have had to live with the pandemic and the subsequent shortage of components, will not be an exception within the plans of the Japanese.
As it was, PlayStation 2 hit stores in late 2000 , with a really large fat model that was quickly replaced by the slim model, which landed in stores four years later. Specifically, in October 2004. It was the first time that Sony had done something like this and the business was not bad at all because over time that machine became the best-selling machine of all time.
In the next generation, with PlayStation 3, launching a slim model was a must because the original design was so big, bulky and unwieldy that it cried out for a restyling . That PS3 slim hit stores in August 2009, that is, three years after the first launch in Japan and a little less in Europe. As you can see, Sony continues to shorten the time, although in this case it came to launch a third plasticorro model, with a disc player cover that looked like a bread basket.
And we come to PlayStation 4, which went on sale in November 2013 and in September 2016 it already had a more compact version of the old model. As you can see, four years in the case of PS2, just over three in PS3 and less than three in PS4. Now add the PS5 out of stock , supply issues and remove it all: 2023 points to being the year we see the brand new PlayStation 5 slim down in size and price. Three years after its official arrival in November 2020, an average time that seems to be the one that the Japanese like the most… or don’t you think it will be like that?