At this year’s technology showcase CES, Sony announced a mixed reality headset, gravity rush movieand Cars that can be controlled with DualSense–So it greedily offers new things. PS5 slim The colorway is even more disappointing. Do you mean red, blue, and silver? No matter what happens next: black?
Yes, there is also black.sony’s quite small PlayStation 5 slim Announced in October 2023and Released in November, promising more colorful options for side panels in the future. Three of his pieces were exhibited at CES. The Vergeand they’re not necessarily groundbreaking choices.
OK, let’s be pretty rational. They are good reds, blues and silvers. Each one looks like a shiny new car, rather than the grossly plastic-y Lego colors common to consoles, which is much better than the bulky PS5 options. The official names of the colors are Volcanic Red, Cobalt Blue, and Sterling Silver. If you request colors by these names at your local store, the staff will be allowed to stare at you unblinkingly for up to a minute.
The default white PS5 Slim has a mix of glossy and matte panels, but these new panels are all matte and cost $55 for the bonus. That seems like a lot of money for a purely beautiful enclosure, but perhaps we’ll soon see a more interesting variety of inexpensive third-party panels.
To me, the bigger issue is that this speaks to Sony’s completely wrong attitude towards this hardware.Yes, of course they want to attract the classy crowd, those who just buy CoD and F.C.I use 2X (née FIFA) every year and want something that won’t look stupid next to my TV. But at the same time, the PlayStation it’s a toy.it is for playing upon. Why can’t we also have the option of a little joy?A flashy mix of bright colors, a kitschy floral pattern, and a cover of bat out of hell?
OK, maybe it’s not meatloaf, and of course it’s not. plywood, but something that suggests Sony recognizes that people are using the PS5 to have fun. Or even better, follow Microsoft’s recent good direction and just pick a few ridiculously colliding panel sections and let me make something as terrifying as my awesome Xbox controller.
Slim’s announcement blog notes that “additional colors will be released in the future,” but given the lackluster choices in the first round, purple, light blue, and some bloody camo designs It’s hard to expect more than the addition of . In other words, That’s what the regular PS5 received.