{"id":395128,"date":"2025-11-21T17:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/395128\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:50:15","slug":"the-playstation-5-slim-and-pro-are-on-sale-for-black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/395128\/","title":{"rendered":"The PlayStation 5 Slim and Pro are on sale for Black Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Friday is still a week away, but Sony has already slashed the price of three PlayStation 5 models. The PS5 Digital Edition (slim) is down to around $399 ($100 off) \u2014 its lowest price of the year \u2014 at Amazon<\/a>, Best Buy<\/a>, and Walmart<\/a>. The standard PS5 (slim) is also on sale for around $449 ($100 off) at Amazon<\/a>, Walmart<\/a>, and Best Buy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you want a more powerful console, the PlayStation 5 Pro is now available at Amazon<\/a>, Walmart<\/a>, and Target<\/a> for around $649 ($100 off), matching its lowest price to date. These deals are particularly noteworthy because Sony raised the price of every PS5 console in late August due to U.S.-sanctioned tariffs. These deals are available now, and the sale runs until December 18th.<\/p>\n

The PS5 Digital Edition is the least expensive version of Sony\u2019s latest console. It has a slightly rearranged port configuration compared to the standard PS5, and lacks a disc drive, so you can only play digital games. If you want the option to play physical games or Blu-rays, you can pick up an external disc drive designed to work with the system for $79.99<\/a>. The PS5 Digital Edition comes with 1TB of internal storage, but you can swap out its NVM M2.0 SSD with a higher capacity drive if you run out of room. However, the PS5 will only work with a drive that has a heatsink, like this variant of Samsung\u2019s 2TB 980 Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The standard PS5 Slim has the same basic design as the Digital Edition of the system, but has a built-in disc drive, so it can play physical games or Blu-rays right out of the box. The console is less expensive than the combined price of a PS5 Digital Edition and the PlayStation external disc drive, so it\u2019s a better choice if you have a stack of PS5 games and movies ready to go.<\/p>\n

As for the soup-ed up PlayStation 5 Pro, it features a better GPU, faster memory, improved ray tracing, Wi-Fi 7 support, and AI-powered upscaling. These technical improvements allow it to play some games at higher resolutions or frame rates than a standard PS5, though no games are exclusive to it. Our reviewer<\/a> didn\u2019t notice a noticeable graphical improvement between playing a game on the PlayStation 5 and the PlayStation 5 Pro unless he sat closer than 10 feet away from his TV. Additionally, only \u201cPS5 Pro Enhanced\u201d games can take full advantage of the console\u2019s additional horsepower.<\/p>\n

The console lacks an internal disc drive, but is compatible with the same external disc drive<\/a> as the PS5 Digital Edition. The PS5 Pro also comes with 2TB of internal storage, which is double the amount you\u2019ll find in non-Pro versions. You can still swap out the system\u2019s internal SSD for a higher capacity drive, but you may not need to as quickly.<\/p>\n

Even more PlayStation Black Friday deals<\/p>\n

Discounts on PS5 consoles are the main attraction of PlayStation\u2019s Black Friday sale, but you can also score a discount on accessories. The selection includes the PlayStation Portal<\/a> and a PlayStation VR 2 bundle<\/a>, which are both at their lowest prices ever. The DualSense<\/a> and the more premium DualSense Edge<\/a> controllers are also on sale, with up to $30 off. These deals are also available until December 18th \u2014 or while they remain in stock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Black Friday is still a week away, but Sony has already slashed the price of three PlayStation 5…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":289655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[171114,240,705,158,67,132,68,176667],"class_list":{"0":"post-395128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-black-friday","9":"tag-deals","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-verge-shopping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115588957780877290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}