This is a policy that Sony has been implementing in the market for more than 20 years of giving users a break after the launch of the first model to buy it and choose another later. more compact, smaller and significantly lowers its price welcome already inside what we could consider as the last course of the generation. Seems weird with how little time has passed, but PS5 thin will be no exception.
Operation Bikini for PS5
Of course, everyone takes it for granted that PlayStation 5 will have a version thin sooner or later (there is even news that indicates a launch in the third quarter of 2023) which will arrive on the market to meet two very specific objectives: to update its hardware with more modern and cheaper components, which allow a reduction in size and the final price of the console and which, in addition, are generally more efficient and functional than the originals of the model which usually goes down in history with the name of big
Except in the case of the first PlayStation, where the whole generation lived with the same design (except for small component and functional modifications) until the year 2000, when the famous PS One arrived, more small and with an LCD screen (optional). ) incorporated so you can take it anywhere. First that coincided, by the way, with the launch of the PlayStation 2 that same year, so we wouldn’t know whether to consider it as a version Thin or not, or simply a cheaper alternative to the new generation.
Slim versions: a Sony tradition
Now, what arguments can we use to think that 2023 will be the year we see a new, slimmer and cheaper PlayStation 5 in stores? Very fair you have to look to the past to understand
So things, The PlayStation 2 hit stores in late 2000with a model big really big which was quickly replaced by the model thin, which landed in stores four years later. More precisely, in October 2004. It was the first time that Sony had done something like this and the business was not going badly at all because over time this machine became the best selling machine of all time.
In the next generation, with the PlayStation 3, start a model thin it was an obligation because the original design was so large, bulky and unwieldy that it required a restyling🇧🇷 This PS3 thin it arrived in stores in August 2009, three years after the first launch in Japan and a little less in Europe. As you can see, Sony continues to shorten the time, although in this case it has launched a third model of plasticorrowith a disc drive cover that looked like a bread basket.
And we come to the PlayStation 4, which went on sale in November 2013, and in September 2016 it already had a more compact version of the older model. As you can see, four years in the case of PS2, just over three on PS3 and less than three on PS4. Now add the absence of Stock from the PS5, supply issues and remove everything: 2023 indicates that it will be the year when we will see losing weight the size and price of the all-new PlayStation 5. Three years after its official arrival in November 2020, an average timeframe that seems to be the one the Japanese enjoy the most…or don’t you think it will?
