Remember the Great PlayStation 5 Panic that hit every holiday season between 2020 and 2023? Relax, we’re not back to those supply-chain nightmare days. But this Amazon Black Friday deal on the Slim Digital Edition of the PS5 — a big $100 price cut down to $399 — is moving with alarming speed, so much so that it might not make it to actual Black Friday. If you weren’t planning on starting your holiday shopping until Black Friday or even Cyber Monday, you might want to rethink that plan if you want to score a PS5 Digital Edition (Slim).
The PS5 Slim’s skinny-sounding name has nothing to do with its gaming power or capabilities, which are fully present. The console itself is about 30% smaller than the first iteration of the PS5. The slender design and the fact it plays equally well when set up in vertical or horizontal position makes is easier to position on your gaming desk or close to your TV in whichever room you’re gaming in. (The vertical stand is sold separately.)
Best Deal of 2025
The last time the PS5 Digital Slim Edition was priced this low was roughly this time one year ago. Since then it’s stubbornly remained in the high-$400s range, but Black Friday 2025 has brought with it a $100 drop — and a serious rush on supply. That’s unsurprising considering the PlayStation’s dominance of the console gaming market, and the PS5’s undisputed reign as the premier console since its release in November 2020. Single-player gaming or online group play are equally fun and immersive, and the number of games that run optimally on the PS5 numbers into the hundreds.
This Slim edition is digital-only — no disc drive present or needed. The digital games load faster and play faster, with far less lag. The internal SSD is a full terabyte in size so you can download new games, updates, and DLCs at will. All you need is a PlayStation Network membership that gives you access to the PlayStation Store to find and download games, and this version of the PS5 comes with Astro’s Playroom pre-installed to get your started.
Immersive Gaming
The smaller, slimmer body of this console is jammed with great, advanced gaming features. It supports haptic feedback, adaptive triggers, and 3D audio technology via TV speakers or USB stereo headphones. It supports 4K gaming, is backwards-compatible with PS4 games (digital only), and comes with a DualSense Wireless Controller, power cord, and USB cable.
If you beat the rush and score a PlayStation 5 Digital Slim console during this Amazon deal, your next stop should be the PlayStation Store, where there’s another Black Friday sale happening right now which includes hot new digital games like The Outer Worlds 2 and hot titles like NBA 2K26, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and over 650 more. They all play fast and furious on the ultra-quick SSD of the PlayStation 5 Digital Slim. But first you have to beat the rush to Amazon and grab one of these consoles for just $399 before this Black Friday deal runs out.
