Do you like the PS5 console design?

[EricHiggin]

DonFerrari said:

KBG29 said:
They finally made a large console. Where was this when we needed it?

I was championing larger home consoles for the last generation, because a 3.5" HDD would have been cheaper, with more capacity, and better performance.

Really liking the design, and for the first time ever I feel like I want it to be standing up. Same with the XBSX to be honest. I guess these next gen consoles are going to force me to rethink my media center.

Now the big question, is it whisper quite?

Mark Cerny made it sure to mention they didn`t do a good job with prior PS cooling and noise. So I would imagine PS5 is a lot better.

PS4 certainly could have used a larger fan for the first couple of years anyway. It may have been able to get away with just that and been reasonably quiet. A longer and narrower heat sink with a curved indentation for a larger fan would have helped, along with making the outer shell a little larger overall for an even bigger fan, while also keeping the look they were going for.

3.5" internal HDD would have been much nicer and would have also fit if they had increased the fan and outer shell size a bit for PS4. Looks as though any extra cheap mass storage space will have to be external drives of some sort for PS5. My cabinet shelves will probably be just big enough to fit a PS5 horizontally, but an external drive won't fit unless it's under or on top of the console.

I think the PS5 design is really cool, different, and unique to consoles, though too modern and artsy, so I prefer my matte black PS4 1200 model. The XB1 was way to boring and plain, and while the XBSX is as well, it's PC tower style is interesting and mostly unique to consoles. The XB1S, XB1X, PS4 and Pro sat nicely in the middle, being fairly simple, more traditional, and tasteful.

I'd guess the PS5 fan is at the top where the vents are and I'd bet it's as big as the PS3 fan if not bigger. The console has plenty of space inside of it. With only NVMe SSD internal storage expansion, it's not like there's a 2.5" or 3.5" HDD taking up space in there. The bigger the fan, the slower it'll have to spin for the most part. As long as the fan is made of a reasonable quality, it's likely to be acceptably quiet.