PS5 Rumor: PlayStation 5 being redesigned?

[Demon_Skeith]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1245741486689398785

The report begins by noting the collective feeling in the developer community is that Sony has dropped the ball, partially because it underestimated Microsoft and the Xbox Series X. And this is why -- by certain measurements -- the PS5's specs are considerably inferior to the specs of the Xbox Series X. According to this new rumor, the PS5 can't maintain its clock speeds, which is causing severe overheating problems, which in turn is causing the hardware to fail at an alarming rate. Further, the lack of power is also apparently leading to optimization issues. While the Xbox Series X is reliable in terms of the power it provides, the PS5 is unpredictable, which in turn makes optimization very challenging.

The report continues by noting that Sony is looking into a complete console redesign to alleviate some of these issues, and this redesign may lead to the console looking similar to the Xbox Series X, which features a very practical design.

The claim wraps up by noting Sony is contemplating a six to twelve month delay in order to make adjustments to the console, but also notes it's considering launching what it has in order to match the release of the Xbox Series X, which would lead to a redesign coming later down the road.

 

[cm2]

Read from pushsquare just now, cooling solution to be detailed too:

Sony will publish a teardown of the PlayStation 5’s hardware soon, designer Mark Cerny has alluded in an interview with Digital Foundry. The overwhelmingly dense article – which expands upon many of the points made in the Marble Madness man’s recent presentation – makes references to the next-gen console’s cooling system. “We're saving [that] for our teardown, I think you'll be quite happy with what the engineering team came up with,” he said.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Read from pushsquare just now, cooling solution to be detailed too:

Sony will publish a teardown of the PlayStation 5’s hardware soon, designer Mark Cerny has alluded in an interview with Digital Foundry. The overwhelmingly dense article – which expands upon many of the points made in the Marble Madness man’s recent presentation – makes references to the next-gen console’s cooling system. “We're saving [that] for our teardown, I think you'll be quite happy with what the engineering team came up with,” he said.

Hopefully the explanation is better than the last. Also, hopefully it is liquid cooling, I don't want my next console to sound like an airplane taking off.

 

[cm2]

Hopefully the explanation is better than the last. Also, hopefully it is liquid cooling, I don't want my next console to sound like an airplane taking off.

Cerny mentioned that issue with ps4 jet engine fan too before. Digital Foundry in the video mentioned that they talked with ps5's game developers, they didn't mention any issues with cooling though only that in order to achieve max GPU usage they throttled down on the CPU clock/usage.

 

[IntoxNitram]

I watched the conference of the deep dive into the console, and digital foundry’s analysis after that. I’m not too worried as it stands and would need more than a random YT comment to change my mind on that fact really.

 

[cm2]

The rumor tweet is false confimed by kotaku's Jason . Also apparently Rubino is from windows central and defended the false tweet

https://twitter.com/x/status/1245758533511118848

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Honestly I never post something like this, but the fact we haven't seen the PS5 design made me willing to post this.

 

[froggyboy604]

I feel the PS5 probably won't be redesigned unless there is a PS5 CPU, RAM, videochip, electronics shortage cause by the Coronavirus lockdown which is causing a shortage of electronic parts according to news articles I read.

 

[MofaMF]

Yeah i'd say at this point it could only be hardware change. They wouldn't re-design the whole system so close to launch but it does sound like they are not quite satisfied with something ...