What's up everybody, welcome to IGN GameScoop. I'm your host, Damon Hadfield. Joining me this week here in Studio is Matt Kim.

Hello. We're also joined by Justin Davis, Scoop, and Mark Medina.

I'm here, Damon.

Thank you. You remembered. We've got a great show for you this week. Matt just published an op-ed on our All Digital Future and how you're prepared for it.

You're stealing yourself for it. I'm ready for it.

And we also have a really fun listener email about what we think are the best boss fights of all time that we'll get to in just a bit.

But first, the biggest news of the week is actually Slim News.

PlayStation 5 Slim is real, coming next month, sooner than I expected.

Out sometime in November.

And this is two new models, both with the disk drive and without. So same as before. I think they're about 30% smaller each.

The one with the drive is still going to be $500, maintaining price, unless you want to store it vertically, in which case you're going to have to shell out an extra $30, because that stand does not come in the box.

So vertical users, I guess, do have a little bit of a price increase.

But what's interesting is the digital-only version is getting a price increase of $50. It was $400.

It's crazy.

Now it's smaller and $50 more.

Plus the stand.

And we'll get to that.

Okay, I want to hear Mark.

What's your reaction to? A more expensive digital-only PS5?

Well, if the question is, are you going to buy one? Yes, because I'm an idiot.

What?

Yeah, because I've been wanting a second PS5 for a while now, because I have this PS5 behind me, which is black now, so it's super cool.

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