NEW PS5 Slim: Unboxing + Review!
Hello everyone it’s SpawnPoiint and today we are getting hands on with the brand new PS5 slim this is PlayStation’s latest console that is smaller Slimmer and has new features that we’ve not seen on the previous model now this did launch in the US a few weeks ago but it’s only just launched in the UK today so I’m excited to get handson and show you what it does we’ll get it unboxed set up and then talk about what’s changed and how it compares to the original PlayStation 5 so if you were thinking about buying one of
these or not sure what it offers over the other model hopefully today’s video will help you out okay so I opted for the physical Edition which means it comes in the classic white box as opposed to the black one if you go digital we’ve got the new PS5 on the front and references to some of the best PlayStation games on the back including Spider-Man 2 oh and I’ve just noticed there’s no handle on the top to carry it like on the original PS5 box and then inside we get the power cable some little plastic feat
a USBC charging cable and an HDMI 2.1 cable we also have the standard white dual Des sense controller which is exactly the same as what we’ve seen before now I wouldn’t normally
so the overall design is very similar to the original PS5 where we’ve got the white panels and the black centerpiece along with those popped colors at the top but as you can see the biggest difference in the design is the fact that we now have four panels instead of just two so the bottom two have the same m finish whereas the top two are now glossy I’m actually surprised by this as glossy finishes are always a pain to keep clean from fingerprints but this looks okay and then separating the top and the bottom panels is
a very thin line that goes from the front to the back now when I saw the photos of this when it was first announced I wasn’t so sure but I could definitely get used to this and then if you look across the bottom we have these tiny triangle Circle X and square icons on the panel and we also get those tiny icons built into the Grain on the inside of the panels as well now on the original PS5 we had what about 15 or so different sets of covers that we could swap out and Playstation
have said that in early 2024 we will be seeing more panels come into this console now as soon as we get some official console covers I will definitely be changing these to Black again along with a matte black centerpiece and when that time comes swapping these out is going to be super easy all you need to do is pull away on the plates and they will pop right off but until then we’re just going to have to stick to White now you might have noticed this already but the ports on the front are slightly different
to what we’ve seen before so we now get two USBC ports instead of one of each now this is going to be useful if you’re plugging in say a psvr2 headset and you still need another USBC Port but of course if you needed a usba a port we still have two of those on the back along with a lan Port an HDMI and the power input also around the front there’s only the power button there’s no disc e Button as that’s on the disc drive instead and the benefit to this is I no longer have
to guess which button Powers it on as I literally forget every time I press it so as this is the disc version we obviously get the disc drive included and already fitted but what’s great with the new PS5 is we can add or remove this disc drive pretty easily all we do is pull gently on the panel and it pops right off then under that we press this little button and the drive itself will pop off as well now unfortunately we don’t have a spare panel to replace this with but if we did we could
essentially turn this into a digital PS5 and keep it even Slimmer but if you did decide to buy the digital PS5 you can actually buy the disc drive separately and fit that it works out at about £10 more expensive if you do it this way but at least you will have a spare panel to fit then refitting the disc drive is just a case of lining up the connector and pressing down into it clicks bear in mind that if you do buy the drive separately you do need an internet connection the first time that you
install it that’s just so it can register and download the latest update now when it comes to the stand on the new Slimmer PS5 it’s not like what we’ve seen before instead of getting this plastic base that you can use to stand your PS5 either vertically or horizontally it comes with these so these tiny feet are designed to slide into the opening between the two covers and kind of prop the PS5 up and actually if you look really closely you can see how it’s using those PlayStation icons we saw earlier to help balance it but
I’ll be honest I’m not sure this is it I mean it’s sturdy enough and it’s not going to go anywhere but I don’t like seeing these feet from the front oh and another thing is you can only use these if you lie it down horizontally if you want to stand it up vertically you will actually need to buy a vertical stand which is sold separately for about £30 I do have one of these on order but weirdly this doesn’t launch until December the 1st so that’s a few days after the console launched here in the
UK although what’s cool about this stand is it will work on both the original and the new PS5 okay so I had to compare these two side by side just to see how different they looked PlayStation stated is about 30% smaller and although the photos didn’t do it any justice online I would say it’s noticeable when they are side by side they clearly look similar with the overall style but it’s a little bit shorter and narrower it also weighs a lot less coming in it 24% lighter now which one you prefer the look of comes
down to personal preference if anything I thought I would lean towards the original PS5 but seeing the two side by side I actually really like the look of the new one stick some black plates on this and this is going to look good I guess if you wanted a space saving PS5 this one definitely ticks that box although I don’t like the position of the HDMI port on the back as it means the HDMI cable is sitting pretty high when looking from the side as for the specs and performance of the new slim PS5 other
than the size weight and design there’s only one other difference that sets the two apart and that’s the internal storage by default the original PS5 comes with 825GB of storage of which just 667GB is usable whereas on the new one it now comes with a 1TB Drive of which around 850GB is usable so those extra 200GB of storage will definitely be useful for the next Call of Duty update other than that the CPU GPU and RAM and all other specs are identical so you’re not gaining or losing anything from the slim down PS5 there’s even
the same internal SSD Bay under the top panel so if you wanted to expand on the original 1 tabes of storage you can remove this metal cover and fit an M.2 Drive in here adding up to 8TB of storage but what that means is it doesn’t matter which console you play on you will get the exact same experience experience from the new or the old PS5 oh and one thing I didn’t notice until I’d powered it on was the LED strip has moved from the top of the PS5 down to the bottom it’s not a
huge change but something I thought I’d point out overall though I do like the look of the new PS5 slim it’s similar to what we’ve seen before but with some subtle changes extra USBC ports a smaller size removable disc drive and extra storage now if you have a PS5 already and you’re wondering if it’s worth swapping over to this one I would say unless you need a smaller PS5 in your setup it’s really not worth the change it’s basically the same with a slightly smaller case but if you were buying your first PS5 today and
you had the choice between both I would go for the new one the extra storage is worth it alone and we’ll probably see console covers on this that you won’t get on the old one so that was a quick look at the new PlayStation 5 Slim now drop a nice PS5 Slim in the comments and I’ll give you a thumbs up by staying right till the end and if you did enjoy today’s video check out my PlayStation portal video next as I fully reviewed that on the channel a couple of weeks ago okay so thanks
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