The PlayStation 4 era, which started in 2013, is over. Although big PlayStation titles such as Horizon: Forbidden West will still launch on the PS4 in the next year, new-PlayStation shoppers have a better option in front of them: the $500 PlayStation 5 and its somewhat slimmer sibling, the $400 PlayStation 5 Digital Edition. Assuming, that is, they can find one.
Our pick
PlayStation 5 Console
The best PS5
This version of the PS5 has a disc drive so you can watch UHD Blu-ray movies, as well as play new, or used PS5 and PS4 game discs. The rest of the features and hardware are the same.
If you have a big collection of physical PlayStation 4 games, if you want to watch 4K Blu-ray discs on your console, or if you’re a deal hunter looking for discounted new and used games on disc, you should get the standard PlayStation 5 so that you can use its UHD Blu-ray drive.
Also great
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition Console
Same, but no disc drive
The Digital Edition doesn’t include a disc drive, so you can’t watch Blu-rays or take advantage of new or used games, or old PS4 discs. But if you’re comfortable going all digital, it has the same graphics, CPU, memory, and storage hardware as the standard PS5.
The PlayStation 5 Digital Edition costs a hundred dollars less, and other than its lack of a UHD Blu-ray drive, it does everything the standard version does. If you don’t want to spend $500 on a new console, if you don’t buy or watch movies on UHD Blu-ray, or if you don’t care about disc-based games, the Digital Edition might make more sense, especially for anyone who takes advantage of a PlayStation Now game subscription.
If the only reason you’d buy a new console is for brand-new games that you can’t play on your existing PlayStation 4, you don’t need to rush into the next generation just yet. In fact, many of PlayStation’s biggest games in 2021 and 2022 are still coming to the PS4, including Horizon: Forbidden West, the sequel to 2018’s God of War, and Gran Turismo 7.
But mid-way into the first year of the PlayStation 5’s lifespan, we’re starting to see more and more games that take advantage of the PS5’s upgrades. If you spend a lot of time with your PlayStation 4 and are ready for immediately noticeable improvements in console boot times, game loading, and some performance and visual improvements in the games you already have, you can get that on a PlayStation 5 right now and leave virtually none of your PlayStation 4 library behind.
from Wirecutter: Reviews for the Real World https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/choosing-best-ps5-standard-vs-digital-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed
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