Forget the PS5 Pro: Aussies can grab a PS5 slim for as little as AU$575 right now

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We've updated the prices 💫in this arti♏cle. The initial article listed a discounted AU$675 price for the PS5 Slim; now it's been reduced even further to AU$668.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5 Pro pre-orders went live today, but if you're not willing to fork out AU$1,199 for a videogame console, rest assured you're not alone. It's an eye-watering price for a mid-gen refresh, and while it'd be nice to have, it's f🌞ar from an essential up🐻grade.

🌳The good news is that, presumably to coincide with the rush to upgr♐ade, Amazon is currently selling the PS5 Slim—both the disc and digital models—at heavily discounted prices. The , down from AU$799.95, while the , down from AU$679.95. If you've yet to buy a PS5, these are very tempting prices. 

The question of whether one should go for the PS5 Pro is a complicated one that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:we address here, but to pull an important quote from that article, the questions to consider are: "How much of a difference will the average user spot in terms of 💜frame rates and graphical fidelity? Are there games coming that I’ll actually want upgraded hardware for? If those same games are coming out on PC later, should I just wait and play them further down the road on an even beefier machine?"

| AU$799.95
| AU$679

PS5 Pro🎶 may be looming on the horizon, but if you baulk at the idea of spending over a grand on a gaming console, these discounts on the base model are super appetising, drawing close to the record prices seen earlier in 2024. Black Friday aside, these mig🧔ht be the best prices on the PS5 we see for the rest of the year.

If𓆏 you're a complete newcomer to the PS5 you've got a lot to catch up on. This year alone, we've seen mode🎀rn classics like Astro Bot and Helldivers 2, not to mention brilliant third-party gems like Baldur's Gate 3 and the forthcoming Silent Hill 2. 

If you do want a PS5 Pro instead, Amazon is currently taking pre-or✱ders on that model (and to ꧂reiterate, it's ). Whichever way you go, there's plenty of fine games on the horizon.

New to PS5 and looking for games? Here are the best PS5 games to play right now.

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Shaun Prescott
Australian Editor, Games Group

Shaun is the Australian editor and news writer for our sister site, PC Gamer, but꧂ he occasionally dabbles on GamesRadar too. He mostly plays platformers and RPGs, and keeps a close ey𝓀e on anything of particular interest to antipodean audiences. He (rather obsessively) tracks the movements of the Doom modding community, too.