NEW Sony PS5 "Slim" - Teardown + Thoughts 

Neither of them

Neither lol

Old model looks more like a Premium unit.

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It does have a catch tho. By making it like this and not a "standard" screwy way it means that unless you tear it down completely the PS5 is only compatible with Sony specific disc drives which will be far more expensive than regulars on the market. Although how often does the disc drive break tho? Wouldn't worry too much.

@@TheSilverwolf97very good point. I feel like doing the unscrewing to clean it from dust would be easier than the fat 5?

The base PS4 and one of the slim PS2s did the same matte and gloss

I find it strange they would add a glossy section to the side plate when the middle was already a glossy finish

@@WayStedYou thing is the proportion was different. Idk why but there's this weird psychological thing where the more glossy plastic there is relative to the amount of textured plastic, the more noticeable it is and the more noticeable it is, the less aesthetically pleasing it is.

it is the same from the Playstation 4 - the line break in the middle is just about the same proportions. The top part of the split was glossy black the bottom half was matte black. Kinda surprised no one noticed the similarity

​@@kohakkanuva3224Never seen someone spout bullshit this confident. Aesthetic perception of contrasting texture is a thing, whatever you just faked isn't.

Lol clown

Day 1 launch versions are usually the best build wise for sure and most times aesthetically as well imo.

IMO the similar thermal performance within a smaller chassis is due to the fact that the original PS5 had a 7nm chip and the thermal design was apt for that. When Sony refreshed it with a 6nm die, they found extra thermal headroom which they were able to remove in PS5 Slim while having similar performance, temps and power consumption.

Indeed they do, so this one should be selling for significantly cheaper than the launch model, yet of course greedy Sony are still selling it DEARER than it was at launch! I normally love PlayStations and bought every previous PS system, but since this one has been such a ripoff (with €80 games too!), I and many others still haven't bought one and still won't until they're selling for €400 or less, but €550 for a (refreshed!) three year old system is ridiculous! 😯😐

@@aniketbilenia8740 Hopefully the real Pro model In a year or 2 will bring back some of that overengineered premium design and be a more visually pleasing less cheap aesthetic , though I doubt we ever get anything as spare-no-expense as fat launch model PS3 was , people always talked about the $599 price but that thing was jam packed with the most overall console features and value ever for the year It launched. PS5 has always felt overpriced since launch imo.

Agreed, folks are just wanting to complain

I think the PS4 did it much better though. Like yes technically all the same design choices are here but it just doesn’t look as good imo. It feels like with the PS4 when they were experimenting with designs they tried half-gloss half-matte and liked it the most, whereas for the PS5 they made the decision before seeing any designs and had to try to make it work after the fact.

@@Dimeadozen2088 very much so. Isn't the original ps5 the same one that people were making fun of saying that it looked like a router? All the memes were about it's size and router like appearance.

@@cadenza23 - Personally I think the PS4 Slim and Pro did the best design of any console, they were sleek, simple and nice to look at while still following the leaned back design of the OG PS4 etc. I do think the PS5 and Slim PS5 look cool, but I do wish Sony would have kept with the more boxed look of the PS4 Redesigns and XBOX Consoles, as afterall, it is a CONSOLE that most people will have hidden or something, it is not really some furniture that you stare at all day. - I hope the PS5 Pro if it ever exists goes with a more simple design and not "Chat-GPT, Can you make the PS5 look like an Alien Spaceship/WIFI Router?"...

(His insanity is also growing day by day alongside his hair)

Just wait til he dyes it teal

@@Dandalandan117this is so underrated🎉

The maintenence cost is higher

Good observation

yeah, I dont have a ps5 but my mum does and it looks like an eye sore in her room. Unlike the ps4 slim thats in the living room where you barely notice it

I agree 100%. PS4 was way better

The Series X is beautiful. The ps5 is so ugly lol 😂 no one can deny it.

It would look fine with black panels imo

Love my golden modified PS5 🤷🏼‍♂️

The pro model is rumored for next year around this time if you didn't hear. It was by the Same guy who said this model ps5 is coming.

@@Andre217 oh sick. That's really exciting, thank you for letting me know!

@@ther3aper561 you're welcome now we just wait , and see , but this guy is usually right.

The packaging for an add-on disc drive that required a whole side plate would have been a fair bit bigger. And one of the more less-spoken-about aspects of cost reductions in slimming down consoles is the ability to reduce packaging size(and weight). Shipping and warehousing considerations are quite a non-negligible part of costs.

Still no idea why they went with a glossy panel on the top, though :/ Honestly, that and the horizontal """"stand"""" are the worst things about this new version

​@andrebrait people where complaining about the old stand in horizontal configuration saying you couldn't move the unit with it falling off, and some other things. I dont sit there and stare at the system, it plays the games and that all i need it to do. Dont care about seeing the plastic feet thing. I think they could have provided a vertical stand with the digital model since it would need the support, but disk model doesn't. Of course you'd have people complaining about that.

@@andrebrait it's a design throwback both to the PS2 Slim and the base PS4, both of which had a half-matte/half-gloss aesthetic.

Maybe after market plates makers could sell a design of only one plate per side?

I can't imagine it looking good having that side panel be a different color than the rest.

Thats good for you :)

Power consumption is rated the same with the fat and slim, so same heat amount, 7nm to 6nm is irrelevant regarding heat, it's like original PS3 chip which went from 90nm all the way down to 40, and 200W's of power consumption while gaming down to 80W with the slim.

@@Jaffacall3251 There are 3 different version of the fat PS5. The original chip has a massive copper heat copper heat sink. Then the second version has a smaller but still massive heatsink. Then the latest fat PS5 has that small heatsink because of the newer chip. Pretty sure that is the same chip in the slim since I can't see Sony paying $250M just to do a complete rework of the same chip. Going from 7nm to 6nm is just an optical shrink. But going down to 5nm or 4nm needs a complete rework.

The front vents on PS5 are intakes, not exhaust. 😅

And howvmany versions of the chip?

@@Jaffacall3251 bro the newer fat ps5 has less cooling

I know! I like everything he hates about the new one.

same. and the glossy panel should be fairly easy to remedy.

Dbrand crying right now on the overstock of third party plates

There will be an all-matte black cover for the new PS5 in early 2024.

The fact that it can be easily removed makes it so customization is the solution

So what did you end up getting?

The PS5 SLim!@@DillanIsrael

I hated how the PS5 looked when it released, so ugly and clunky and why white? But now I'm glad I got one anyway, because the "updated" version is somehow even more ugly.

I kind of like how it looks similar to a ps2 slim from the top down

@@cheezyfriez12 I must have had a totally different PS2 slim to everyone else as mine didn't look anything like this lol

​@@mydogeatspukedisagree

wait for the PS5 Pro

My problem is exactly this. The OG ps5 had the ssd located in the front, where cool air is sucked in to the fan, now it is directly above the heatsink fins and a console is rearly set up to pull air in from the back where they exhaust the heat, it would just recirculate the heat. This way the ssd sits in a no mans land directly above a very hot metal object

@@norbertnagy4468 Matters not. Thermals will never be hot enough to impact M.2 performance anyway.

@@admirkaralic7209 there are m.2 drives that are fast enough to get too hot in themselves in a pc with tons of airflow... in the ps5 they sit in a closed compartment with a cover to make sure they get 0 airflow and now they put the main heatsink directly under it. I think it is risky

ssd dont run very hot at all and infact you dont want hdd or ssd to run too cool. @@norbertnagy4468

​@@norbertnagy4468the ssd is exactly where it's supposed to be in the current PS5. That's why they said to put a heatsink on it.

L opinion

@axolotl8527 instead of making meaningless reply, why not actually give a legit reason. Are you just sheeping behind what people on Twitter are saying

I agree, I personally prefer it. It has a sleeker design, it's smaller and with some nice darkplates will look great. My issue is more with regards to pricing. Selling the vertical stand separately for £30 just seems kinda slimy. And at the same time the price is increasing.

​@@user-ds8rj2vc4vyes I don't like they' sell it separately but I'm used to it since they did it for PS4 and ps2

His reply wasn't meaningless. The design is so objectively ugly that OP's comment doesn't warrant anything more than the fact it sucks.

Same. Waited for that reason. They might use more efficient chips in the model after this, but who knows when. Makes me worried that this will really have worse thermals. I wonder if they put the same Chip because they had production issues with the 5nm or because they first want to empty their inventory of old chips. They are actually rushing the release in the US, so that the Americans can buy it before Black friday. Europe and the rest of the world seem to je getting it months later. I wonder if that's the reason they put a similar or same chip in order to make it in time

They could have used a newer chip that may not be much more powerful than the original but yet will be much more efficient

same. I'll keep waiting, I don't see the compelling exclusives.

@@maythesciencebewithyou It's actually not as easy to just go with 5nm if the original design is on 7nm. The 7nm and 6nm are basically the same, where the "shrinking" is done by just getting better at making the 7nm, but the 5nm is another step in shrinking so the design for the chip has to be done again. They probably could do it, it should be easier to re-design existing 7nm chip to 5nm than to make 5nm chip from scratch, but it still takes engineering and new deals with AMD. It's really not worth it, especially if you want to keep the cost down since 6nm is cheaper than 5nm as well.

this is really good actually they managed to reduce power consumption in the 1200 series and now have reduced the the overall size, they have managed to get a process where the power consumption and body size are independant to each other. they can eventually release a newer version of this being even light when the rest of the industry stops hogging the 3-5 nm chips, there is very likely not enough capacity to accomodate PS5's needs on those processes.

nah old model looks like a fat old dvd player

Yeah, makes you wonder why did they even bother with the last shrink in the old case, could have gone straight for the slim and saved on retooling and redesign twice in such a short span.

@@HNedel They're doing the shrinks bc selling PS5's actually costs Sony. I wonder when they will start making a profit from these consoles, and if they will ever announce it to us.

​@@DarkAngelEUwhy do the consoles need to make money when they own the game store? It's like the steam deck. The hardware just needs to not hemorrhage money.

Sony doesn't own game stores, dude lol@@GameTimeWhy

@@DarkAngelEU are you trolling? Wtf is the PlayStation store if not Sony's game store?

It vents out of the back, not the bottom. Just like the regular PS5.

@@EversonBernardes next time you play, put your hand underneath where the gap is and you'll literally feel hot air escaping.

​@@dmannion81there are no vents underneath though. The vents are on the back. Also the vertical stand is flush with the bottom of the ps5. I have no idea what you are talking about.

lol look again dude, it is in fact not flush with the bottom, they have a big gap and have vents. You probably didnt even look and just went by what you thought you remember seeing. it has vents and a gap and you can literally feel the air escaping from the bottom and not just the back of the console. @@GameTimeWhy

@@dmannion81 it 100% does not have air vents at the bottom of the console you weirdo. Are you trolling?

Take your grievances up with Mark Cerny, the engineer. He designed it and already explained why it had to be that way. By the way, Mark Cerny also designed all the PS4 models.

@@shawnbenjamin9636 I've been a playstation owner since 1. I know who Mark Cerny is. While I don't think he himself is a bad designer, I think the societal shift to accept ugly, garbage looking products is the underlying issue. Xbox did it right with their simple and sleek design. I can't stress how much of a nightmare it is to just find a spot to put the damn PS5

@@chrisgg80 It's supposed to be an item that you actually use, not a decoration piece. The fact that it works and does its job should be all that matters.

The OG PS5 looks nice

@@shawnbenjamin9636 The idea that the PS5 *had* to be the way it was is laughable nonsense. I get that most people aren't informed about this stuff enough to 'think for themselves' on this front, but there are definitely plenty of options for them to have gone in a different direction with similar performance. Especially aesthetically, which is what the person was commenting about. Lastly, the Cerny worship among PS fans is bordering on deranged. He's a nice speaker, but a lot of that Road to PS5 video for instance was marketing mistruths.

Good theory, similar to how some gaming laptops can get away with less fans even when pulling more power than other laptops, due to how the air flows through the system. Adding mire fans does not necessarily mean the system will be cooler if the extra air is not going anywhere useful, if you can perfectly control that airflow you may be able to add less fans. It seems to me that due to the console being skinner (not so much smaller but less thickness), this means the air is forced through the system a bit more. This will cool the system down about the same degree in temperature as the system rose due to being shrunk (I am not sure how to type that but you get my point hopefully). - Afterall, Sony designed this so they probably took the thickness into account and found a sweet-spot where it looks decent but also helps the cooling.

I feel like the slim PS3 and PS4 look more premium just by omitting the glossy plastic, this slim version of the PS5 goes the opposite way.

​@@slipperyfish7560The PS3 slim looked more premium than the original fat boy that screamed "LOOK AT ME, I AM EXPENSIVE"? Really can't agree with you there.

@@Nightflash28 haha, true. Have all 3 interactions. Original PS3 was so expensive when it was released but it was still a steal as normal blue rays were even more expensive than the PS3 back then. The threshold was simply too high for general gamer. Ahhh, and that Spider-Man font on og PS3 ❤️. Best shrink was from PS2 to PS2Slim.

@@Nightflash28PS3 Slim is awesome in every aspect.

@@tomaszstarzZz i love the slim versions of the ps2,3,&4. the original versions r too Big for me. I love the slim versions of 2-4 cause they blend in with the set-ups. the original versions sticks out like a sore thumb😂

I'm sorry but... why? Who really wants form over function? That's like saying I'm going take the pedals off my bike while I'm not riding it. For the aesthetic.

@@dapperfan44 yeah but it's not really form over function if you don't necessarily need the disc drive for the system to function, is it? Most people nowadays don't even buy discs anymore

​@@MrGabrielandraderyou can just buy the digital version I'm sure

@@chaosv1123 sure you can, that wasn't the point he was trying to make though.. he meant that you can have the option to play both digital and discs and still be able to take off the disc drive just for the aesthetic, depending on whichever, that's all

@@MrGabrielandrader oh I see

once it powered up with 4k 120hz tv. i don’t care how it looks. we didn’t carry it out like handphone or drive it around like a mazda😂

And the literal base ps4 was matte and glossy panel

The ps3 slim was fully matte as well as the ps4 slim and pro

It kinda works with black, it doesn't work with white color. Just looks straight up bad.

This is how you weed out the (New) gamers from the older gamers. They dont remember the Fat PS3 was All Glossy. The Fat PS4 was Half Glossy/Half Matt just like this.

Nah power draw dropped when they moved to 6nm and you can literally see its the same die (size) as before

The SSD changes the exact same way in the original PS5.

Adding a 1 TB ssd to any Ps5 is a 10 minute $70 job .

@@Crashed131963 Ten minutes to pop off the lid and screw in one screw??

@@fawesum Maybe 4 mins then . I never bothered I just load 6 games at a time and delete/reinstall after that . Never seen a game take longer than 15 minutes to load .

​@@Crashed13196315 minutes? Yeah, I have also never seen that... Not even on my C64 35 years ago.

PS4 Slim had a revised 16nm chip that was massively more efficient than the original, and also came with a price cut. The original PS4 was also already a reasonably compact machine, so there was less room for improvement on that front. This new PS5 is not a proper Slim model, and it was only done to reduce costs for Sony, all while they've raised prices for us. It's a scumbag move.

The original ps5 already had the 6nm shrink with a reduced size heat sink, similar to this one. Apparently they just transferred that design with some tweaking maybe

I guess that's it, the last phat with the GDDR chip reductions and mild die shrink together was already ready to be smaller, it was just waiting on a motherboard and chassis redesign. But if new Slim is the same chip and power wise as the last Phat, I'd like to see a fan acoustics comparison between them @@HNedel

@@tipoomaster i also want to see that. Dave showed that the slim is 1db quieter, but the test was probably not controlled and we don’t know which revision of the original he used.

It looks dumb, especially horizontally due to the idiotic shape.

Oooooh, futuristic.

@@dindinj2875woooow it’s so cool now when horizontal 😮the “future”

Yeah probably made cheaper. Also the disk drive has drm so you're getting a worse disk drive

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​@@shahgyyin what sense is it worse?

@@sanfury do you know what DRM is?

@@sanfury the fact that is has drm is why its worse. you have to be connected to sonys servers... have an internet connection at first to get the disk drive to work. No Bueno. Not good for preservation of games

Exactly and looks premium unlike the terrible Slim.

​@@dericjames2018It's not terrible. You are being hyperbolic

@@unicorntomboy9736I mean it’s not terrible it’s slightly worse than the og ps5 the slim just looks cheap like it came out of wish The big disc drive bump throws me off on the slim

@@meenakshirattan9658 Just buy the digital model then

@@unicorntomboy9736 who would buy a digital? - _- I would rather buy a OG disc ps5

so did the ps2, loved both their designs especially the ps2 slim

The later revisions of the PS4s replaced the touch buttons with analog ones and made the glossy panel matt. (Not the slim just a revision of base PS4)

And Fat PS3 was ALL glossy. Lol. They are (New) gamers if they don't know this.

​@@MatrixAlphaCWXMost people don't remember because the PS3 was overpriced when it first came out and it had no games. Xbox 360 was the way to go for the first few years despite the Red Ring of Death.

Yes but black worked a lot better. This honestly feels meh. It's nice but ps3 to ps3 slim was huge and the same for ps4. It felt more improved. Honestly you could chuck on a d brand plate it becomes maybe 15% bigger which isn't worth it much.

You mean the dust that gets captured there that would have gone into the fan otherwise?

I removed both covers, those vents and even fan shroud just to improve cooling. It just stands on my desk completely bare and i like the look of it so much more.