Playstation fan speed to be updated through firmware

[DonFerrari]

EricHiggin said:

Not really worried. Having the ability to change and improve over time shouldn't exactly be seen as a negative today. Are game updates, fixes, and patches a big worry? They can be if the game is totally broken at launch, but how many ship that way? The console won't ship broken, it just may not be as optimized or efficient as it can be with direct user hardware data. I mean, it would be really 'cool' if SNY could send out the updated fan settings based on your location. Someone from India probably needs the fan running faster than someone from Canada.

It could also just be set to something more user preferred if it's within heat tolerance. Say the fan is ramping way up and down on a game constantly and many users complain. SNY could just find the sweet spot and set the fan there so it's consistent and doesn't have to ramp up much from that fan speed, while also being reasonably quiet. I'd guess this would be a more rare situation, but if it can be handled on a game by game basis, why not?

It can help with a bunch of things. Would help overall when designing a Pro or Slim. Would help once future third party NVMe SSD's start being used and add more heat to the system. Can probably even help them evaluate the liquid metal degradation as per the temps and heavy user play time. Maybe they know they've gone overkill with the liquid metal formula, and would like to get better data on how well it withstands the gamers pushing it the hardest throughout the gen. If SNY can change the formula a bit to save money on upfront costs, while still offering worthy heat transfer and longevity, again, why not?

It would be odd but cool to see Sony allowing you to set up the fan speed on the margin of "as cool as possible" "as hot as acceptable" "constant speed" or whatever as long as those fall within working boundaries.