The announcement of the PS5 Slim means that day-one owners are celebrating the PS5 'THICC'
Oct. 11, 2023“I’ve always had fat PlayStation consoles since PS1."
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Sonyhas formally announced the long-rumoredPS5 Slim, but what should we now call our launch PS5s? Simply PS5? The PS5 Chunky Edition? The Old PS5? Or my favorite: the PS5 Thicc?
Reacting to the PS5 Slim news, console owners on the PS5 subreddit were full of theories (jokes) about what the day-one version should be called. “The existence of a PS5 Slim implies that I now own a PS5 THICC,”jokesone commenter. “Totally prefer my thicc version,”saysanother, while one more Redditor agrees that the “Thicc version has a more balanced look.”
But the PS5 Thicc actually continues a long PlayStation tradition where the beefier launch consoles are usually the more attractive ones. “Everyone knows the PS3 Thicc was the superior version too,” one thiccness historian points out. Another looked back at the more distant past: “I’ve always had fat PlayStation consoles since PS1. The best looking [one] being the PS2.”
The PS5 Slim will be available to buy in the US sometime in November. Sony will then roll out the console globally over the coming months, but you can find more details about the slimmer versionhere.
The console should accompanyMarvel’s Spider-Man 2quite well, in addition to the otherupcoming PS5 gameson the horizon.
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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that’s vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he’ll soon forget.
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