This is turning out to be quite the challenging year for gaming – with the inflation that ran rampant through 2024 and 2025 now starting to bite in terms of pricing in many areas. While we haven't seen wholesale price rises from every console maker, there have been no price cuts to speak of, and Sony just underlined how that arithmetic might be working.
After confirming the news a few weeks ago, it has now started to roll out a new version of the slim PlayStation 5, which cuts down its internal storage by a meaningful amount. When the PS5 first launched, it came with an 825GB internal SSD for game storage, but when the slim model arrived, it upped this to 1TB.
