The slim PS5 is still huge

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It may be smaller, but it’s still pretty big.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

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Pictures of the new PS5 design.

Image: Sony

Sony just announced a redesigned PS5 that’s smaller, lighter, slimmer, and available with a detachable disc drive. The original PS5 is a beast — the biggest game console in modern history — so I was curious just how much smaller the new model might be compared to the old one.

I won’t leave you in suspense. I dropped the measurements of the new and old PS5s into CompareSizes.com, and here’s how they compare:

A graphical comparison of the new PS5 sizes.

A graphical comparison of the new PS5 sizes.
From left: the original digital PS5, the original PS5, the new digital PS5, and the new disc drive PS5.
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge, comparison from CompareSizes.com

So, overall, the new PS5s are still big. But it appears they won’t take up quite as much space in your media center as the original models do.

Just for fun, I plugged the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S into CompareSizes.com, too:

A graphical comparison of the new PS5 sizes and the Xbox Series X / S.

A graphical comparison of the new PS5 sizes and the Xbox Series X / S.
From left: the Xbox Series S, the Xbox Series X, the original digital PS5, the original PS5, the new digital PS5, and the new disc drive PS5.
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge, comparison from CompareSizes.com

You can see the comparisons for yourself at CompareSizes.com.

The redesigned PS5s will go on sale sometime in November, Sony announced on Tuesday. If you get the Digital Edition, you can buy a Blu-ray disc drive after the fact for $79.99. They also come with 1TB of storage instead of the 825GB offered with the original models.

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