The PS5 Is A Big Console For A Good Reason

@Pyrosa: Honestly Black would be an better choice for me as white ages it becomes ugly but then again I do not buy something for it looks but what it can do.

@Pyrosa: I prefer White personally, I have the White PS4 Pro version, I think it was only available at Gamestop for a while. The curvature definitely has some intention for heat dissipation in the design, if it will make any difference, not too likely. I don’t hate it though, Sony took a design risk at least, XBOX is as simple as it gets and my niece could design it, but that has its appeal too.

I’m excited for this gen on both fronts, I’ll be buying the PS5 and just hope XBOX steps it up again, close competition is better for the consumers. Having a gaming PC, Microsoft Studios making some great IPs would only make everything that much better for me. I’m also not holding my breath.

@Pyrosa: The wings (somewhat) hide the large exhaust vents and also direct the airflow.

@saturatedbutter: Agreed. These console manufacturers really resort to some asinine rhetoric when pushing their products and it's always hilarious to see people parroting the "jargon" used, like it means anything at all.

Consoles always have an expiration date and never offer the optimal experience from a performance/customization standpoint. They're inherently a compromise.

In a perfect world where everyone had the freedom and money to choose their platform consoles would no longer have a place. This has never been more obvious than it is now.

@saturatedbutter: well people complain about fan noise, now they complain about the size, you can't make everyone happy.

@daidochus: PS4 pro is terrible designed if we talk about cooling. I play with the top cover off. If you pop it open you will see what i mean.

@daidochus: Yeah, I've actually worried MANY times why I can't ever hear the PC I built this year. It's overclocked a bit even, both CPU and GPU, and even with TWWH2 on Ultra I don't hear a damned thing.

@dmblum1799: thanks for sharing the information about your cabinet to the world.

@Atzenkiller: I am glad to, I wonder how many game saves of Legend of Dragoon I get on a 1 tb m.2 SSD, I hope at least the first disc worth.

@jenovaschilld: True. Just STFU people and play! People have too many first-world problems today.

@Tidus1012: incidentally that will help you to not early adopt, a choice with some usual problems :P

@StonerDemon: That is not how it works. Air v liquid still uses the same amount of surface area to reduce thermals. Air (fan, radiator) - Liquid (fan/radiator as well). And often times the liquid radiators are larger with larger fans.

Liquid removes heat faster, but it has to go somewhere. As it travels from CPU/GPU to metal, to liquid - it then needs to go somewhere. Goes to a radiator, which also needs a fan to exhaust the heat from radiator to outside, or else the heat goes right back to the die.

BTW The dreamcast used a closed loop liquid cooling solution there for a while, was decent but eventually went on to just air.

You do not get a smaller foot print by using liquid over air. And as smaller nm get used. the less temp rise overall because of less wattage needed, but as important to 'get' it all out of the case as more components get hotter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23vjWtUpItk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr0qLLv3dKc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tay4Pz-PQDc

Some reference materials above. But most important to remember - the amount of wattage, or electrons flowing through and grounding produces heat, regardless of how you get rid of it, air and liquid uses surface area per degree, so while the water block looks smaller, the back end - in surface area- will need to be the same.

@EricDWright: You know the PS5 wont accept a HDD for games?

@just1mohr: The discussion is likely pretty similar in Nintendo and MS' board rooms.