The PlayStation 5 Slim standard edition console has been discounted by £70 at selected UK retailers.
WithSonyhaving knocked £60 off the console’s regular price of £479.99 until February 25 viaPlayStation Direct, some retailers are matching the offer while others are running even better deals.

At the time of writing, Currys and Very were leading the market with a price of £409. The best deals we spotted on Monday included:
Sony began rolling out itsfirst major PS5 Slim discounts in Europeearlier this month. Having launched last November for €549.99, the console’s price has temporarily been reduced by €75 in a number of countries.

While Sony had previously hoped toship a record 25 million PlayStation consolesduring its current fiscal year ending in March, it said last week that it nowexpects to miss that target by four million units.
A new report calculates thatSony‘s value dropped by around $10 billionlast week, following its revised PS5 sales forecast but also partly due toa drop in operating margin in its gaming business.




