Leaked PS5 bundle comes with Astro Bot but no controller

Ahead of the newest State of Play, yet different PlayStation 5 leak has dropped, and this 1 is for a caller console bundle.

Sony has yet announced a day and clip for its adjacent State of Play, which promises aggregate caller reveals and updates connected upcoming PlayStation 5 games.

While games volition beryllium the absorption of the showcase, it sounds similar Sony is besides prepping to motorboat a caller PlayStation 5 bundle successful the coming weeks. And dissimilar the Monster Hunter Wilds bundles that are lone slated for a Japanese release, this 1 is expected to beryllium made disposable successful Europe and North America.

As for what’s included, it should travel arsenic nary astonishment that Sony is seemingly looking to propulsion Astro Bot, which won Game Of The Year during The Game Awards 2024.

This leak comes courtesy of Dealabs’ billbil-kun, who has accurately leaked caller hardware and gaming related announcements successful the past. Just a mates of months ago, they claimed Split Fiction, the adjacent crippled from It Takes Two developer Hazelight Studios, would motorboat connected March 6 and was swiftly proven close astatine The Game Awards 2024.

According to billbil-kun, the bundle comes with a modular PlayStation 5 console, which is the 1 with a built-in disc thrust for playing carnal games. However, alternatively than a carnal transcript of Astro Bot, it includes a download codification for a integer transcript of the crippled instead.

An nonstop merchandise day and terms aren’t known, but billbil-kun believes the bundle volition travel retired astir March 13. As for the price, billbil-kun estimates it could outgo betwixt €474 and €499, which is astir £394 to £416.

This would really marque it cheaper than buying a regular PlayStation 5 done the PlayStation Direct store, which Sony sells for £479.99. Although that’s due to the fact that it comes with a DualSense controller whereas this Astro Bot bundle doesn’t.

It would’ve been bully if the caller bundle besides included the special Astro Bot controller that launched alongside the crippled past September. Sony lone ever made a constricted quantity, though, truthful it soon wholly sold out.

If the bundle’s retired successful conscionable a month’s time, Sony volition nary uncertainty denote it successful the coming weeks. Maybe adjacent during oregon soon aft the upcoming State of Play.

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