Sony Reduces Weight of PS5 By 300 Grams

pcmag.com:

Sony just increased the price of the PS5 everywhere except the US, but it also managed to tweak the internals and reduce the weight of the console again.

In August last year, Sony started selling Disc and Digital editions of the PS5 that were 300 grams lighter. Now, as Press Start reports(Opens in a new window), Sony has done it again and introduced new models CFI-1202B (Digital console) and CFI-1202A (Disc console) in Australia that weigh even less.

The CF-1200 models are expected to launch more widely on Sept. 15, starting in Japan(Opens in a new window), but Australia has got it first. The Digital console is 200 grams lighter than last year's model (500 grams lighter than the launch model), while the Disc console is 300 grams lighter, and therefore 600 grams lighter than the launch model.

Last year the weight saving was achieved through the use of a smaller heatsink to keep the chips and memory cool. There was speculation back in May that Sony was going to start using a 6nm chip(Opens in a new window) for the PS5. If that's the case, then the more efficient processor could allow Sony to reduce the size of the heatsink even further and cut 300 grams from the weight in the process. We won't know for sure how it was achieved until someone does a teardown of the new CF-1200 models.

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