Rumor: PlayStation 5 Slim To Be Revealed Next Month
We now have a new rumor about what is starting to sound like really is the arrival of the PlayStation 5 Slim.
According to Shpeshal Nick, Sony is set to reveal the new iteration of their current generation console in a PlayStation Show scheduled for this coming August.
As detailed by TCMF2 on Twitter, the PlayStation 5 Slim will be priced at $ 399.99 and is slated for September.
This rumor has been bolstered by an FTC document that we reported on earlier, and confirmed multiple other rumors about the upcoming console as well.
For example, the document also confirms a planned September 2023 release for the console.
This PlayStation 5 Slim console is apparently also enabled to use an optional external disc drive, if consumers buy one separately.
This external disc drive can’t be used on the currently available digital only versions of the PlayStation 5, but that may change in the future.
On our end, we ended up reporting on two different lines of rumors regarding what could be the next iteration of the PlayStation 5.
Tom Henderson of Insider Gaming had been reporting on a detachable disc drive for some time now. However, he dispelled ideas that it would be a slim console, nor that it would be a PlayStation 5 Pro. Instead, he has asserted that it would be generation 2 of the current console, that would have a detachable drive.
On the other hand, an outlet called The Leak was bold enough to assert that Sony is working on a PlayStation 5 Slim, and that it would be releasing in Q3 2023. While The Leak isn’t that well known to cover the video game industry, it’s been known to really come out with leaks that later get confirmed to be true in other fields.
It looks like The Leak is the one among the two who gets to be proven
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