At some point, Sony designers decided to update the PlayStation 4 to keep up with the times. As you might guess from the name, the Slim version focused on design: the body of the console became much thinner and lighter, the optical input was gone from the base. Thus, three versions of the same console were on the market at once: the original PlayStation 4, the thin PlayStation 4 Slim and the advanced PlayStation 4 Pro.

The hardware remains the same — an 8-core AMD Jaguar processor, an AMD Radeon graphics card with a capacity of 1.84 teraflops, plus 8 GB of RAM. Only the hard drive has changed. Given the ever-growing size of gaming distributions and the popularity of digital copies, Sony decided that the 500 GB available was not enough. Therefore, a month after the presentation, the PlayStation 4 Slim went on the market with a more capacious 1 TB hard drive.


The biggest difference between the original PS4 and the Slim version is the power consumption. The maximum power consumption of the thin version is 165 watts, the original one is 250 watts. Also, wireless modules have been updated to the current versions: the Wi-Fi module has learned to work in fifth generation networks, and instead of Bluetooth v 2.1, a Bluetooth receiver of the 4th version has appeared.

Even after the release of the next-gen PlayStation 5 console, the old PlayStation 4 Slim is sold in every second store and is in great demand among gamers. When playing in Full HD resolution, this old lady is able to maintain a comfortable frame rate (at least 30 FPS) in most gaming hits of recent years, including such really beautiful games like Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, God Of War 2018 and Death Stranding.