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The PS5 Is A Big Console For A Good Reason

According to some recent details, the size is due to an increased need for cooling, among possible other reasons.

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When it was revealed last month, many people were surprised by the striking design of the PS5, which abandons the black box design of recent console generations for bold curves and a striking black-and-white color scheme. While it didn't take long for players to start making memes about the appearance of the console, others have noted its increased size over its predecessors, the PS4 and even the original "fat" PS3. That giant size is, according to one Sony employee, because the console generates an enormous amount of heat. With that much power comes a need to keep the system cool, and a huge case was necessary.

When one commenter asked on LinkedIn why the console is so bulky--as spotted by VG247--PlayStation's vice president of UX design Matt MacLaurin replied: "Thermals. This gen is little supercomputers. While the 7nm process delivers amazing heat performance for the power, the power is very extreme."

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However, there might be other reasons for the large size. A leaked patent seems to suggest that Sony is building a cartridge that might work with the PS5. Some observers have speculated that it's an external solid-state drive that will slot into the console for memory management, but there's no official word if that's the case. We still don't know how much the PS5 will cost, or the PS5's full line-up of games, but odds are likely that more details will come out over the coming weeks. Most of its announced first-party games are also not going to be ready for launch. However, it should receive plenty of third-party support out of the gate. This includes sports games like Madden and NBA 2K, and presumably the Call of Duty series. Some of these will be cross-generational releases, and certain publishers are also allowing players to upgrade for free when the newer version becomes available.

The Xbox Series X is also a huge console, but it sports a PC-like form factor that is more familiar to players. The console, like the PS5, can be placed horizontally or vertically. It doesn't look like it will require a stand to do so, however.

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Please fill the blanks with the words that fits its criteria:

The PS5 is the World's Most _____ Console.

- Ugly

- Gargantuan

- Underpowered

- Featureless

- Tacky

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@johnny0779:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBZM6LYgKC6/?igshid=96n4umvip972

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@johnny0779:

- revolutionary

- most efficient

- best exclusives

- will continue to be the mainstream gaming console

-etc

-etc

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@pcps4xb: So many good choices here! I prefer these:

- The PS5 is the World's Most most efficient Console.

- The PS5 is the World's Most best exclusives Console.

The last one here is my absolute favorite!!

- The PS5 is the World's Most will continue to be the mainstream gaming console Console.

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@pcps4xb: Best exclusives? Sure, but that ain't saying much, PeeceePeeEssFourExxBee. Haven't you seen their competition? Microsoft are on OUYA territory with their exclusive roster.

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@asnakeneverdies: their competition is Nintendo and Xbox. But yea I hope next gen they do better.

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@pcps4xb: revolutionary lol of what ugliest console design. Lol most efficient okay really reaching there...Best Exculsives(to be debated). Yea, mainstream media console maybe...

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@bababooey12: “Best Exclusives(to be debated)” ...Not really a debate at all. Pull up any major reviewing website, especially websites that compile several professional reviewing scores, and then count how many Xbox One exclusive games are in the top 300. Next, count how many PS4 exclusives are in the top 300. Microsoft needs to pull their head out and start putting out quality games for their system. We can sit here and debate all day about which console looks better, but the reality is that games sell consoles. That is why Sony more than doubled the sales of the PS4 vs. XBox One. Heck, even the Nintendo Switch out sold the XBox One and it was released TWO full years after the XBox One. The reason that you are crying about Sony releasing games two years later for the PC is because you are such an XBot that you will NEVER get to play any of the truly great games.

By the way, the PS5 is SEXY AF IMO! 😉

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@jdq7123: lol you can sit there and try to twist it all you want, Sony and Nintendo have a way bigger foothold in the market than Microsoft, that and Sony has really done a good job on selling their console as a media player(bulk of the console sales are just to use the console as a media player, not just for gaming). Lol I don't go off of a bunch of biased reviews. What PS5 exculsivies are in the top 300, console isn't even out yet? Also, I didn't mention anything about Sony releasing games two years later on PC, talk about someone with their head up....if you're going to call me an Xbot or whatever it is the kids say these days, at least have your facts straight. The great exculsives you mention are single player story driven one and done games. I would gladly take an exclusive with half the story time as a game such as Horizon or Spiderman, but also has a multiplayer side to it. To me I would get way more for more my buck, hell a game like SOT, which is just multiplayer I have more then made my $60 back. I would have played Spider-Man or Horizon beaten it, leaving little desire to play again....

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@bababooey12: You said it perfectly... Sony does have a better foothold in the gaming market, because it is better at making games. Haha. You are a D bag. Justify your crappy gaming purchase any way that makes you feel better about flushing Benjamins down the pooper.

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@jdq7123: lol whatever makes you sleep better at night. I'm a D bag, because you don't agree with me? Makes you seem like an ignorant child...what are you 10 years old?

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@bababooey12: Yep, I’m a 39 year old child and you are still a D Bag. Going on a Sony PS5 thread just to troll and rave about the XCumBox, when this thread literally had nothing to with Micocksoft, makes you an a trolling DBag.

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@jdq7123: lol that's funny, because the Microsoft event had nothing to do with Sony, yet how many Sony fanboys were on there commenting etc. Just because I'm responding to people sitting there commenting about how the Xbox has no games blah blah, doesn't make me trolling....you can dish it but can't take it. Whining like a baby all butthurt, because somebody commented in your Sony thread. This is a game news site, it has forums where people can post freely, I wasn't complaining when people were commenting on the Xbox posts, instead engaged them in conversation. I would think at 39 years old, you would've learned by now how to communicate with people, without throwing a tantrum and calling them a D bag lol....one day you might grow up.

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@bababooey12: I meant the architect is revolutionary. The design is preference, j never had a console that I hated the way it looks. The exclusive debate is they have the most exclusives rated 80+ therefore one would have a higher chance of liking to the exclusives.

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@johnny0779: You forgot "All of the above."

/sarcasm

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@johnny0779: highest sold console

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@johnny0779: "troll".

Mogan, come on, this guy literally hunts out Playstation threads just to repeat the same trolly comments over and over again.

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@Barighm: You know he does put new stuff in there, can't really say its the same post over over again...I guess its fine for Sony fanboys to do it, but when the Xbox side does it, you all cry about. I know you can dish it, but can't it....

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@bababooey12: So you hate Sony fanboys. That's interesting. Why you're making that response to me makes no sense, though. I've been trashing Sony all month.

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@Barighm: Did I say I hate Sony fanboys, I made the comment to you because you were the one calling him out. He does have some valid points even if sometimes it seems he repetitive in what he is posting lol. I see Sony fanboys posting negative comments in all the Xbox related threads over and over again, maybe not the same copy and paste comments, but still talking trash...wasn't saying you directly though.

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@Barighm: Xbox bois never post on their own threads, because they have no one to talk to. All of them are on the Sony topics. Sony wins in console sales, just like they win in gamespot comments. lol. Xbox fanboys, thank you for helping the PS5 become the most talked about console.

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@allencc3: Yep most comments about how ugly it is, great achievement. Sony guys do the same thing, usually worse about it too. The past Xbox event was filled with comments by Sony fanboys....yet you guys cry, when its the other way around.

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@bababooey12: Why would I cry? lol. I have access to all games. I played one MS game in the past 5 years, State of Decay 2. Had no desire to play any of the others. Facts!

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Wow,did GS just changed the title to get this commet section running longer?

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@sladakrobot:

yes they been changineg titles to articles and there date for few years it rather annoying and sad that they stoop to that when the Date and of the artical is say one thing and the comments go back month or even day they doing it

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Won't mind the size, after all I have a base Xbox one. Just hope it quiets the console, the PS4 sounded like a jet. The xbox one may be big but it's whisper quiet

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Poor design...

I doubt the PS5 runs hotter than the XBOX series X....

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@systemoverload: you mean "you doubt the ps5 would run as COOL as the Xbox One X.....I have an Xbox One X and that thing runs quite cooler than I would had expected.

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@lurker_: LOL. Got HIM.

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I know many people hope this isn't true and I'm one of them but sony has all but confirmed that this is true at this point.

PlayStation 5 games will finally go beyond the $60 price tag people have become used to over the last decade or so as development costs for games are expected to increase with the coming of the next-generation console. Video games have been at the $60 price point for quite some time now (since as far back as the PS3 and Xbox 360 era), but development costs have only risen further since then.

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@notafan: that's what dlc is for

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@notafan: They did say that, but they also said it last generation, and I think they said that the generation before. They always say that. Prices always settle back down into the $60.

As I said earlier, I'm a little surprised we still see so many AAA games given how many people wait for sales before they buy and how many of the more popular games are actually cutesy multiplayer type games. We're actually seeing quite the rise in second-tier indie or lower tier publisher games. I was expecting mostly retro stuff but a lot of them have looked very good, although they tend to take longer to develop.

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@Barighm: This means that they make money even at 60

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@notafan: Games have been dirt cheap (adjusting for inflation) for over a decade now. If they cost as much today as they did 20 years ago they would easily be $100 (U.S.) each. So $60 is still good.

There is a reason games have been ruined with microtransactions/gambling mechanisms for the last 10 years...to make up the difference. We gamers can't have our cake and eat it anymore.

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Games were expensive because of game development and cartridges are expensive to produce, some cartridges even had processors.

Optic discs are much cheaper to create and with digital there almost almost no cost to the publisher.

With the popularity of video games increasing more games are sold and with every game sold covers cost and creates.

A bad movie is probably won’t be profitable and increasing the price of admission does not create a blockbuster.

Sony as a publisher is limiting sales by only publishing video games for one platform,

Microsoft has two platforms Windows and XBOX.

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@ssdd_again: Actually, we can. With so many AAA publishers getting too corporate and shedding talented devs like crazy, we're seeing a surge in lesser studios that produce much lower budget games that don't require $90 price tags to fund them. And the games are just as good, or at least look just as good. In fact, most of my favourite games from last year were second tier games like Outer Worlds, Bloodstained, and Ys 8. I don't really buy major AAA games laden with expensive GaaS. Well, except Borderlands 3, but they weren't very clear about the extent of GaaS that game would get.

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Because it’s competing with PCs as far as bleeding edge PCIe 4.0 storage technology that can hit 9GB/s (compressed). Sony took a big gamble, they could have easily just went for the most “grunt”, but they seem confident in their system to me.

Now...i’m Really looking forward to this fall, anyone considering getting Cyberpunk on a current gen console I would highly recommend waiting for the next generation version, no question. I’ll be playing it on my PC, I just couldn’t imagine playing it on 2012 tech :(

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@VGjunkie87: with cyberpunk supposedly being upgraded for free on both consoles, I dont know if waiting really is a thing people have to do. I mean if they just want to experience the entire game on the newer systems than yea, but it’s not required. Its also a bit funny because I cant remember if any of the games that came out before November 2013 did it after the xbox one and ps4 dropped.

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for me it look like a oversize xxxl wireless router.

design doesn't matter to me as long as it runs and plays well, is not like i'm going to look at it while gaming.

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@nintendians: Maybe Sony will play into the joke and add a wireless signal booster to it. : p

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@mogan: hope so.... sometimes i get disconnect using wireless more than my "switch" and my younger bro.-in-law's xbox one on the ps4.

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@nintendians: It does look like one of those Nighthawk routers kinda.

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@Richardthe3rd: yeah, especially the digital edition version.

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The fact that the PS5 is NextGen's Most Underpowered Console and also the one with the Most GARGANTUAN case only shows how unprepared Sony really is to handle heat dissipation (among other things)

While the Series X with More Processing Power, the one with Multiple features to manage such as 3 Generations of games, GamePass, Smart Delivery, and CrossGen Functionality is able to handle far more heat efficiently and discreetly in a smaller case.

One question remains?

What was Sony really doing for the past 3 years of PS5 development because the PS5 ended up looking like it was thrown together by an avantgarde clothing designer in 1 day.

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@johnny0779: 3 generations but still won't have as many games as ps5's 4000+ bc games. Most people who are interested is BC will look at this gen games and PS4's library is superior to Xbox ones library by a landslide. But You're also forgetting the much more superior SSD tech speeds that can reach over 20gb per second which also gives out heat.... Yea the system is packing alright. Like this gen Sony will continue to make the best looking games.

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@johnny0779: I hope you’re at least making a commission, you’re carrying some serious water for Microsoft with all of your comments, lol.

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@VGjunkie87: lol he has a point though, design is horrible worse I've ever seen for a console...not at all what I had expected, especially since the part of the video event leading up to the reveal was neat looking..

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@johnny0779: I certainly agree with you. Sony gets cocky when they take a gen and rest on their lead, and they often get sniped. That looks to be the case here once again.

Microsoft looks like it's going to be a lot stronger out the gates this time. They're doing a good job of leveraging their XBone/360 library, the hardware looks better and their services are WAY better. If they can secure some strong exclusives above and beyond the usual Halo fare, Sony is going to have big problems.

Despite PS4's strong sales I've been generally disappointed with the console this gen. There needs to be more services and cross-platform integration in the next gen, and Sony has basically indicated they have little interest in either. They deserve to get rolled this gen IMO.

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@Richardthe3rd: plus so far their new Ratchet and Clank seems to be running just at 30fps...might as well have it come out on the PS4 instead.

30fps games should not exist on your 1st party lineup.

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@johnny0779: You should pass that message along to MS.

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@johnny0779: yeah well Sony had to promise that everything that was shown was actually playing on the PS5 and not just in-engine footage, plus these games aren’t releasing for many months, lol..

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@VGjunkie87: lol, why bother even showing the game then. Why would I care to see a little bit of game play, for a game coming in 2022...lol seems stupid to me, talk about hype. As for the Xbox event, they did exactly what was said show third party titles....yes, it was in game footage, but did they promise everything would be game play?

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@johnny0779: Absolutely. 30FPS should be unacceptable in this gen.

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@johnny0779: have any game performances been directly compared yet? like a multiplatform game? You know, like benching, but in PC, well kinda.

BTW PS2 was the most underpowered console when MS entered the whole business, and well, denying it's overwhelming success is denying their cockiness that stalled them the previous gen.

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