You can pre-order the PS5 Slim Anniversary Edition everywhere from October 10

The upcoming PS5 Slim Digital will get a great-looking anniversary edition with PS1-inspired faceplates and a DualSense controller. The $500 console launches on November 21, but preorders go live at online retailers starting October 10 at 10am ET / 7am PT. We expect the PS5 Slim Digital Anniversary Edition to sell out online quickly, so make sure you bookmark the links below so you’re ready to get your hands on the console as soon as pre-orders go live.

$500

The PS5 Slim Digital Anniversary Edition is available for pre-order at Walmart, Best Buy, and Target. Please note that Walmart pre-orders are exclusive to paying Walmart+ members ($13/month or $98/year). While that might be an additional hurdle for Walmart shoppers, the upshot is that you hopefully won’t have to deal with so many people (nor as many bots and scalpers) trying to order the console at the same time. Online pre-orders at Best Buy and Target are open to all customers.

The PS5 Slim Digital Anniversary Edition costs $100 more than the baseline PS5 Slim Digital, and is identical to the PS5 Slim Digital in terms of hardware and features, but comes with exclusive faceplates and a DualSense controller with gray color schemes inspired by the original PlayStation console. Like the regular PS5 Slim Digital, the Anniversary Edition doesn’t include a disc drive, so it can only play digitally downloaded PS5 games right out of the box. You can purchase the optional PS5 Disc Drive accessory if you want to play physical games on the system, and it comes with an additional PS1-themed faceplate that fits around the drive once it’s connected. The PS5 disc drive normally costs $80, but due to the upcoming PS5 Slim Digital Anniversary Collection and the PS5 Pro without a disc drive, the PS5 disc drive is currently difficult to obtain. That said, it’s worth checking the links below to see if it’s in stock.

PS5 Pro and PS5 Chroma pre-orders

As mentioned above, the PS5 Pro will also launch in a few weeks, on November 7. Early pre-orders are available exclusively through the PlayStation Store, but will go live at major retailers from October 10. Check out our PS5 Pro pre-order guide for where you can order the new, more powerful version of Sony’s latest console.

In addition to the new PS5 consoles, Sony is also launching a new Chroma line of console faceplates and DualSense controllers with unique iridescent color schemes.