<story><title>PS5 Teardown [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaAY-jAjm0w</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rbanffy</author><text>&amp;gt; Microsoft who drew a box in AutoCad and called it a day&lt;p&gt;I actually like the simplicity of their design. The white one has a bit of Dieter Rams in it. The black tower is just that.&lt;p&gt;Form must follow function and the console itself has few simple  functions: to house and properly cool the computer inside, and to make it easily accessible for repair and upgrades. It&amp;#x27;s hardly surprising it has few simple lines.&lt;p&gt;OTOH, the PS5 has a lot of lines to disguise a huge heat exchanger. It&amp;#x27;s not obvious how to even power it on.</text></item><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Yeah, as a hardware engineer this feels like porn to me but I also feel the whole thing is overengineered and expensive to design and build(for consumer electronics) versus Microsoft who drew a box in AutoCad and called it a day saving tons in R&amp;amp;D, tooling, materials and manufacturing which is how most hardware projects are ran nowadays in this industry since at that kind of scale the small things add up quickly, eroding your already razor-thin margins but maybe Sony has enough money to bankroll this project.&lt;p&gt;You can also notice the difference in cooling design. Sony has 2 heatsinks, a large and complex heatsink on the top with many heatpipes for cooling the APU and a small heatsink on the back for cooling just the VRMs stuck to the backplate with its own heatpipe(holy cow!) while XBOX is just a large copper plate with aluminum fins saving Microsoft tons in materials and build cost but they had better done their math right to make sure that it will be enough.&lt;p&gt;Sony had balls to go this route, I&amp;#x27;ll give them that. Respect.&lt;p&gt;I suspect Sony didn&amp;#x27;t penny pinch since they plan to make most of their money back from sales of games and services(ala Apple) while Microsoft probably wants to make more from the hardware itself(ala Android devices).&lt;p&gt;I have no dog in this fight, but my favorite part is the PS5 consumer friendly expandable storage via M.2 PciE drives(Yeeey!) vs the XboX overpriced and proprietary SSD cartridges(Booo!).</text></item><item><author>ch0I9daAiO</author><text>When he took the stand off, I was quite impressed it used a screw. Then they had a place for the screw in the stand, even more impressed. Then a dummy cover for the screw hole, wow. The whole stand assembly rotates to hide the screw storage compartment. And arms to mount that stand to the console to lay it flat? Stunning the amount of engineering they&amp;#x27;ve put in for a simple stand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Polylactic_acid</author><text>The Xbox design looks classy but uninspiring. I like that. You can sit it under your tv and it will blend in with the style of most rooms.&lt;p&gt;The ps5 is designed to be eye catching which I think is a mistake because most people probably don&amp;#x27;t want a game console to be the centre of attention in the room.</text></comment>
<story><title>PS5 Teardown [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaAY-jAjm0w</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rbanffy</author><text>&amp;gt; Microsoft who drew a box in AutoCad and called it a day&lt;p&gt;I actually like the simplicity of their design. The white one has a bit of Dieter Rams in it. The black tower is just that.&lt;p&gt;Form must follow function and the console itself has few simple  functions: to house and properly cool the computer inside, and to make it easily accessible for repair and upgrades. It&amp;#x27;s hardly surprising it has few simple lines.&lt;p&gt;OTOH, the PS5 has a lot of lines to disguise a huge heat exchanger. It&amp;#x27;s not obvious how to even power it on.</text></item><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Yeah, as a hardware engineer this feels like porn to me but I also feel the whole thing is overengineered and expensive to design and build(for consumer electronics) versus Microsoft who drew a box in AutoCad and called it a day saving tons in R&amp;amp;D, tooling, materials and manufacturing which is how most hardware projects are ran nowadays in this industry since at that kind of scale the small things add up quickly, eroding your already razor-thin margins but maybe Sony has enough money to bankroll this project.&lt;p&gt;You can also notice the difference in cooling design. Sony has 2 heatsinks, a large and complex heatsink on the top with many heatpipes for cooling the APU and a small heatsink on the back for cooling just the VRMs stuck to the backplate with its own heatpipe(holy cow!) while XBOX is just a large copper plate with aluminum fins saving Microsoft tons in materials and build cost but they had better done their math right to make sure that it will be enough.&lt;p&gt;Sony had balls to go this route, I&amp;#x27;ll give them that. Respect.&lt;p&gt;I suspect Sony didn&amp;#x27;t penny pinch since they plan to make most of their money back from sales of games and services(ala Apple) while Microsoft probably wants to make more from the hardware itself(ala Android devices).&lt;p&gt;I have no dog in this fight, but my favorite part is the PS5 consumer friendly expandable storage via M.2 PciE drives(Yeeey!) vs the XboX overpriced and proprietary SSD cartridges(Booo!).</text></item><item><author>ch0I9daAiO</author><text>When he took the stand off, I was quite impressed it used a screw. Then they had a place for the screw in the stand, even more impressed. Then a dummy cover for the screw hole, wow. The whole stand assembly rotates to hide the screw storage compartment. And arms to mount that stand to the console to lay it flat? Stunning the amount of engineering they&amp;#x27;ve put in for a simple stand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neogodless</author><text>To this day I am not fond of the &amp;quot;touch&amp;quot; power control on the PS3! I hope the power control is more intuitive, fast and simple now!&lt;p&gt;... yeah I don&amp;#x27;t even have last generation consoles but I&amp;#x27;m considering this new generation.</text></comment>