Sony Quietly Downgrades PS5 Digital Edition Storage To 825GB at Same Price (tomshardware.com) 16
Sony has quietly introduced a revised PlayStation 5 Digital Edition that reduces internal storage from 1TB to 825GB while maintaining the same 499 Euro ($590) price point. The CFI-2116 revision has appeared on Amazon listings across Italy, Germany, Spain and France without official announcement from Sony.
The storage downgrade returns the console to its original 825GB capacity last seen in the launch PlayStation 5 before the Slim models increased storage to 1TB. Users lose approximately 175 of usable space in the new revision. Amazon Germany lists October 23 as the delivery date for units already available for purchase. The change affects only the Digital Edition while the disc version remains unchanged at 1TB. The revision follows Sony's September price increase of $50 across PlayStation 5 models citing economic conditions.
The storage downgrade returns the console to its original 825GB capacity last seen in the launch PlayStation 5 before the Slim models increased storage to 1TB. Users lose approximately 175 of usable space in the new revision. Amazon Germany lists October 23 as the delivery date for units already available for purchase. The change affects only the Digital Edition while the disc version remains unchanged at 1TB. The revision follows Sony's September price increase of $50 across PlayStation 5 models citing economic conditions.
shrinkflation! (Score:5, Insightful)
shrinkflation!
Re: shrinkflation! (Score:2)
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That's what she said.
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It was cold!
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Trumpflation. We have to resist this.
The makers of some medications are jacking up prices too. Trump demanded that the US stop paying more for drugs, so instead of lowering prices there, they raised prices in Europe.
We have to say no. Switch to a different medication if you can. Trump's taxes must be paid by Americans, and if companies try to shift some of the burden onto us, we have to stop buying their stuff.
825GB? (Score:2)
Are they partitioning the same 1TB drive differently to cut storage?
Re:825GB? (Score:5, Informative)
825GB because it's a really nasty way of the whole GB/GiB thing.
The PS5 (original) has 6 128GiB chips for 768GiB total storage. Normally, such an SSD would be called 768GB, hiding things like bad blocks and data tables in the difference. When you buy an SSD like that, that's where the difference goes.
So if you buy a 250GB SSD, you can be sure it has 256GiB of NAND flash inside, but appear with 250,000,000,000 bytes of storage. The difference holds the bad blocks, spare blocks, and data tables.
If you haven't figured it out, 768GiB is about 824.9GB so its even rounded up to 825GB. And your actual storage WILL be less, because that's not accounting for again, bad blocks, spare blocks, and data tables.
Most SSDs would be listed as 768GB, 760GB if they had the same configuration.
The 1TB PS5s would have 8 chips of 128GIB for a real 1TiB of storage, but rounded down to 1TB because that excess is used elsewhere.
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Rather long-winded way of saying it's the same capacity as other 750 GB badged SSDs.
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I didn't think they actually sold 750GB SSDs. Usually they're either 256, 512, 1024, or 2048 GB.
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I guess the question now is, is it 250 GB smaller than the 1 TB SSD Sony was previously shipping?
Re: 825GB? (Score:2)
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Usually SSDs get slower as they get more full. Most SSDs do not have much additional commit space. The amounts have been tested for, we discussed it here not long ago IIRC.
Copyright levy (Score:1)
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Might be that staying under 1 TB saves them some bucks on copyright levy, for example in Belgium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
This is more likely to do with countries where you're not allowed to lie in the product description or advertisement.
The fine summary mentions Germany, France, Italy and Spain, under EU law if something only has 800 GB of storage, it must be advertised as such. When it's integrated you also don't have the luxury of "the manufacturer used base 2, we use base 10" ambiguity.
The US version will also be 800 odd GB but they'll advertise it as a 1 TB because that's permitted.
was 825GB then 1TB now 825GB slow news day (Score:1)
update me when 2TB