The slim PS5 is getting a price cut for the holidays

Sony is cutting the value of the “slim” PS5 integer version by $70, making it much affordable for the vacation season. Typically, that PS5 exemplary costs $449.99, but it will commencement astatine $379.99 done December 24th, according to a caller ad.

This vacation woody brings the slim PS5 integer version conscionable nether the original $399.99 value of the launch type of the PS5 integer console. The footnote astatine the extremity of the advertisement specifies that this value is only for the disc-free console, truthful it seems for illustration the exemplary pinch a disc thrust already attached will still commencement astatine $499.99. But the vacation pricing besides intends that by buying a integer PS5 slim and 1 of Sony’s abstracted $79.99 PS5 disc drives, you tin make your ain PS5 pinch a disc thrust and prevention astir $40.

Another measurement to prevention money would beryllium to opt for 1 of Sony’s refurbished PS5s: a integer refurb costs $349.99 while a exemplary pinch a disc thrust costs $399.99. But those refurbished consoles besides travel successful the original creation for the PS5 that’s larger (and arguably) uglier than the slimmer model.

On the other extremity of the spectrum, Sony offers the $699.99 PS5 Pro. But that doesn’t travel pinch a disc drive, and whether it’s worthy the higher costs mightiness dangle connected really far distant you beryllium from the screen.