The less it will take for the arrival of the expected PlayStation 5 Slim, other doubts arise around him. Let’s recall that this version has traditionally offered similar or slightly better features than the original model, in a design significantly smaller than it. It is not surprising that it was this reduction in its dimensions that gave rise to the adjective slim, which can be translated as slim, thin, etc. I have also traditionally referred to the midpoint of each generation’s life cycle as the current one.

Regarding this last point, everything indicates that this will not be the case in this generation, let’s remember that the original PlayStation 5 went on sale at Christmas 2020 and we hope that the PlayStation 5 will hit the market in the coming months and anyway , , before Christmas 2023. How we however, they told you a few months ago, there are indications that the PlayStation 6, a replacement for the current generation, will not arrive until 2028. The Slim would arrive three years after the original, but five years before its replacement.

On the other hand, we also told you a few weeks ago that the aim of the PlayStation 5 Slim is not so slim, to the point that maybe Sony won’t use that epithet after all for this PS5 review. A theory that was reinforced by a leak, this one from just a few days ago, which, in addition to affecting the slightest difference in size, also caused several brush strokes on its design, which, to be honest, did not exactly leave a good place..

Here’s a first look at the PlayStation 5 (CFI-2016) “Slim” pic.twitter.com/234PcjEVgc

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It has now been posted on the A9VG forums exactly in line with this leak alleged PlayStation 5 Slim image, an image that should confirm the leak on Wednesday. However, we must not forget that we are talking about leaks, not confirmed information from Sony, so until the Japanese technology company comments on the matter, we have to take this information with a grain of salt.

If confirmed, yes. it seems more and more likely that we are finally not talking about the PlayStation 5 Slim, but about a revision of the original model, whose main difference is the jump to a 5-nanometer APU. In that case, however, we can’t rule out Sony reserving the slug for some time later in this generation’s lifecycle. This would give Sony a faster response to those who demanded more efficient integration into the PS5, but it would not do so at the cost of disrupting the tradition of thin models that many users have come to expect from generation after generation.

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