The thin and light version of PS5 needs to be connected to the Internet to pair with the optical drive. Players are worried that its service life will be affected.

The Sony PS5 thin and light version will go on sale in mainland China on December 1. The digital version is priced at 2,999 yuan, and the optical drive version equipped with an ultra-high-definition Blu-ray optical drive is priced at 3,599 yuan. Compared with the original model, the volume of the PS5 thin and light version is reduced by more than 30%, and the weight is also reduced by 18% and 24% respectively. It is worth mentioning thatIf you purchase the digital version, you can purchase a dedicated ultra-high-definition Blu-ray drive at any time in the future.The detachable design is convenient.

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However, some players recently discovered that the information marked on the recently exposed new PS5 box shows that the thin PS5 needs to maintain an Internet connection when pairing the console and optical drive.

This requirement raises concerns about the longevity of the new PS5, as the internet connection requirement means that servers are always needed, and servers can be decommissioned at any time in the future.

It is reported that the performance of the PS5 thin and light version has not changed from the original model, but the built-in solid state drive has been upgraded to 1T capacity.

In terms of core configuration, the PS5 thin and light version is equipped with an AMD 8-core zen2 processor with a maximum frequency of 3.5GHz, an RDNA2 architecture GPU with a main frequency of 2.23GHz, and a computing power of 10.28TFLOPs.

At the same time, the machine has 16GB DDR6 memory, bandwidth 448GB/s, and customized NVMeSSD 5.5GB/s.