Sony has officially revealed how the upcoming PS5 console looks from the inside in a brand-new official teardown video. The new video posted on the official PlayStation Blog by Masayasu Ito, EVP, Hardware Engineering and Operation, SIE, shows a fluid teardown of a brand-new PS5 console to its last bolt and displays each and every component that goes into the upcoming next-gen console. The new video has revealed many interesting details as well.
According to the official blog post, Sony began working on the PS5 back in 2015 when initial concepts for the next console were made and since then, the studio has spent five years designing and developing the console. The insides of the new PS5 are surprisingly very neat and tidy and unlike previous consoles, do not look overly engineered. There are no unnecessary components inside the console, and everything is right where it should be with easy access for even newbies.
Check out the video below before we jump into the details:
the 7-minute long teardown video has certainly revealed information about the console which was previously not known to players. The most important aspect it reveals is the easily accessible SSD expansion slot located inside the console. This shows that PS5 players will not be stuck with the original 825GB NVMe storage that the console ships with and will be able to easily expand their storage by using the included SSD storage spot. The white panels on the side of the console are simple slide-in and slide-out making opening the PS5 a real breeze if you want to open it up to put in your own expansion PCIe 4.0 NVMe.
After removing the white panels, you can see the cooling fan of the PS5 console which is pretty big for a console. It is a 120mm fan which is 45mm thick and comes with a double-sided intake. Along with the fan, you also have a pretty decent heatsink to further help with the cooling of the console. The main cooling component is the liquid-metal sitting next to the main processing chip of the console which will dramatically help with the cooling in extreme temperatures. Sony’s consoles are notorious for overheating however the chances look pretty slim this time around for any heating issues.
According to Sony, the company has worked for two years on just the liquid-metal cooling, testing out various setups, and now the console is using the most optimal setup from all of the tests conducted. Apart from this, the blue-ray drive in the Blue-Ray drive version, the 350-watt PSU unit, as well as all other components inside the console, are easy to access and easy to remove which makes troubleshooting a fairly simple task.
Sony’s PS5 is slated to launch next month on November 12, 2020. Recently some Japanese press outlets got their first hands-on impressions with the console so make sure that you check out the PS5 in action while playing some of the launch titles arriving right alongside the console. The disc version of PS5 will cost $499.99 while the digital-only PS5 will set you back $399.99.
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