Same price, less storage. Shrinkflation at its finest.

Sony plans to release a new PS5 Slim All-Digital console with an 825GB SSD, reducing storage from the previous 1TB to optimize production costs amid rising expenses. The PS5 Slim Standard with a disc drive will retain the 1TB SSD, and the updated model is expected to launch in Europe first.

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

825GB is the raw space, not usable space.

You lose some to formatting and file structure, you lose more to system reserved space for updates and what not.

Out of the box, a 1 TB PS5 has 848 GB available.

So if you're starting with 825 GB that means you're likely to only have, what? 700 GB free? Less?

Some games push 100 GB, so max of 7 of those not counting DLC and what not?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Don't forget that the OS is on there too taking up space and from reports it's about 160 GB on its own.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I think that's a bit too big to be just the OS, they have like 50GB of built-in stuff (share factory+astro but you can uninstall both). It's probably something sensible like 60GB but they're playing it safe by doubling the reserved space. It's Sony after all

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    You lose some because 825GB refers to 825.000.000.000 bytes, divide by 1024 (bytes in KB) and you get 768GB usable space. In the early days of ps5 there was 667GB left over after OS and stuff

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