A new leak claims the PS5 Slim will launch sometime next year

One other leak has surfaced claiming a PS5 slim mannequin will probably be launching in 2023. The rumor, which comes from ‘The Leak,’ could also be pointing in direction of a model of the PS5 that doesn’t include a disc drive. A rumor from a report earlier this yr. But it surely additionally appears to have some further data. Similar to potential launch home windows, the beginning of manufacturing timing and so-on. It must also be famous that Sony could not confer with this new mannequin as a PS5 Slim.

The Leak additionally claims their supply mentions Sony’s plan to create a brand new design for the PS5 that doesn’t embrace the stand. This manner it may well lay flat and stage with out it whereas tipped over onto its aspect. With out the stand there, it will definitely make the console slimmer from a horizontal perspective. But when Sony is really making an attempt to make a PS5 with a diminished measurement, then extra of the design might be going to have to alter.

Because it seems, the corporate could also be trying to do exactly that.

A PS5 Slim would include a “important change” to its exterior

To be clear, no leaks of the particular design have popped up but. Nonetheless, The Leak states that the design of this new mannequin could be modified considerably on the outside. And that to assist accomplish the diminished measurement Sony could be utilizing a ‘die-shrink remedy.” This would scale back the dimensions of the semiconductor elements.

In fact, a die-shrink remedy alone wouldn’t make the console slimmer or smaller. But when the data is correct, then it might be wanted to achieve the general purpose of a slimmer or smaller console. And let’s be trustworthy, the PS5 might positively do with slimming down some. It’s the largest console Sony has ever made and it takes up a large quantity of area.

Moreover, the rumor means that Sony will doubtlessly begin manufacturing of this new PS5 in Q2 of subsequent yr. With a launch taking place someday in Q3. That being mentioned, a Q3 launch was additionally already steered as a part of the sooner report about Sony eradicating the disc drive. Which this rumor appears to be corroborating.