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Sony Quietly Downgrades PS5 Digital Edition Storage To 825GB at Same Price (tomshardware.com)

(Wednesday September 17, 2025 @11:30PM (msmash) from the PSA dept.)


Sony has quietly introduced a revised PlayStation 5 Digital Edition that [1]reduces internal storage from 1TB to 825GB while maintaining the same 499 Euro ($590) price point. The CFI-2116 revision has appeared on Amazon listings across Italy, Germany, Spain and France without official announcement from Sony.

The storage downgrade returns the console to its original 825GB capacity last seen in the launch PlayStation 5 before the Slim models increased storage to 1TB. Users lose approximately 175 of usable space in the new revision. Amazon Germany lists October 23 as the delivery date for units already available for purchase. The change affects only the Digital Edition while the disc version remains unchanged at 1TB. The revision follows Sony's September [2]price increase of $50 across PlayStation 5 models citing economic conditions.



[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/playstation-5-digital-edition-with-1tb-ssd-downgraded-to-825gb-listed-at-the-same-price-cfi-2116-revision-emerges-overseas-on-amazon

[2] https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/08/20/1528221/sony-raises-ps5-prices-by-50-across-all-models-in-us


shrinkflation! (Score:3)

by Joe_Dragon ( 2206452 )

shrinkflation!

Re: shrinkflation! (Score:2)

by bjoast ( 1310293 )

Damn right! My new 3.5 inch drive was only 2.5 inches when I measured it!

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by TurboStar ( 712836 )

That's what she said.

825GB? (Score:2)

by DrMrLordX ( 559371 )

Are they partitioning the same 1TB drive differently to cut storage?

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by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

825GB because it's a really nasty way of the whole GB/GiB thing.

The PS5 (original) has 6 128GiB chips for 768GiB total storage. Normally, such an SSD would be called 768GB, hiding things like bad blocks and data tables in the difference. When you buy an SSD like that, that's where the difference goes.

So if you buy a 250GB SSD, you can be sure it has 256GiB of NAND flash inside, but appear with 250,000,000,000 bytes of storage. The difference holds the bad blocks, spare blocks, and data tables.

If you haven't

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by evanh ( 627108 )

Rather long-winded way of saying it's the same capacity as other 750 GB badged SSDs.

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by evanh ( 627108 )

I guess the question now is, is it 250 GB smaller than the 1 TB SSD Sony was previously shipping?

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