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.
As good as PS5 for $200? Yeah, no.
To be clear, I’m not saying “as powerful” when I say “as good.” A cheap old gaming PC can already play about 90% of games ever released, so why would I care about the AAA games from the last 5 years that demand newer hardware for no real reason? Terraria, Skyrim, Fallout 4, Minecraft, Cuphead, saints row 3, half life 2, portal 2, DOOM (1990s original games with mods), Crysis, Shovel Knight, etc. all have cheap as hell minimum requirements and look great. I won an auction for a laptop for 100 bucks (65 including my bid and shipping, though the charger was another 20, and the setup from scratch would include the price of mouse i used to about 100 bucks altogether) off Ebay that could play all the games listed above (except for skyrim, fo4, and maybe cuphead cause I didn’t test that game. It ran Crysis on low settings surprisingly well.)