PS5: Sony explains why the dimensions of the console is so huge

If there’s one factor the PS5 is speaking about rather a lot, it is its measurement. Indeed, it’s not solely extra huge than the Xbox Series X and the Xbox Series S, however it’s also extra huge than the PS4, the PS3, the PS2, and even the primary Xbox. In quick, an actual monster for which we should make room. In a latest interview with Nikkei xTech, Sony Interactive Entertainment defined why its next-gen console was so spectacular.

“It was fairly attainable to design a smaller-sized PlayStation 5, mentioned engineer Otori Yasuhiro, answerable for mechanical and thermal design. For instance, by integrating two followers – one on facet A, and one other on facet B – the console would have been smaller. However, this may have concerned extra prices. And then, controlling the operation of two followers is harder than when there is just one. So, with all these constraints in thoughts, we determined to ventilate either side of the console motherboard with a single massive fan.“

As our colleagues from Video Games Chronicle (who reported the phrases of Otori Yasuhiro, the primary suggestions regarding the air flow of the PS5 was optimistic, as was the sound discretion of the console. We remind that the machine might be launched on November 12 in Japan and the United States, and the following 19 in Europe.