According to the leak from Billbil-kun, who has a pretty solid track record, Sony will be shrinking the Digital Edition's SSD from 1TB to 825GB, with the new smaller model releasing on September 13th.

The price will apparently remain the same, for now:

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/465651/ps5-digital-edition-is-reportedly-getting-a-smaller-ssd/

Lol, 1 tb is too small as is. Between paying for a ps5, online and hdd upgrade... PC + Nintendo is just the sweet spot.

I’m maybe dumb but will it get better ?
The global economy isn’t doing very good but will it get better for the economy and for the market in general ?

Didn't know they increased the capacity. The digital launch PS5 I'm using has 825 GB of storage. Maybe they'll reverse prices too! :D

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Can't remember a generation this rough on gamers. Yeesh.

It was increased to 1TB in 2023, when the Slim came out.

If I had to guess, this is them trying to squeeze out more of a profit margin without another price hike.

I guess you call this shrinkflation for video games consoles

Less memory, less memory speed, less RAM speed, less build quality, less thermals. So many things are still up for shrinkflation.

They want you to delete games when you finish. Digital business is terrible. I like physical disks for big games and reserve digital for smaller ones.

Pretty much; tariffs and inflation are cutting into their profit margins, but they already raised the price and don't want to make their system too expensive for their target audience to afford, so their solution is to reduce costs somehow.

It's something of a Hobson's choice; make less money, (which no company wants to do) price out your audience, or downgrade your product. Expect more of this as long as the tariff nonsense continues.