For me, this comes as good news that the new model is cooler in some ways. However reducing a Heat sink by 300g is not a slight redesign as you claim. Its a massive chunk of the console taken out and the new part has been redesigned to make up the difference.

Also plenty of companies kneecap themselves if it comes to increasing their profit margins. Many new models in most electronics get redesigns over the years which can either be by removing features from the original design or by taking parts out to reduce build costs etc. My KS8000 (2016) Samsung TV has 2x builtin Subwoofers which the later NU8000 (2018) does not. They were replaced by 1x front speaker instead. 

NU8000 (2018)

KS8000 (2016)

The issue isn't Austin Evans, its fanboys from both sides of the fence that took a none deep dive video and blew it up to something its not. The guy wanted to check what was the 300g difference was. He is allowed to have his opinion, he never claimed it as a fact it runs hotter without actually doing a deep dive on it. When people don't want to hear what they want to hear they will paint them as either a fanboy or to blame. When DF did videos comparing the XB1X to the PS4 Pro many fanboys claimed DF Xbox shills. But now DF is a source for them to use because they claim something they simply want to hear. 

For me, this comes as good news that the new model is cooler in some ways. However reducing a Heat sink by 300g is not a slight redesign as you claim. Its a massive chunk of the console taken out and the new part has been redesigned to make up the difference.

Also plenty of companies kneecap themselves if it comes to increasing their profit margins. Many new models in most electronics get redesigns over the years which can either be by removing features from the original design or by taking parts out to reduce build costs etc. My KS8000 (2016) Samsung TV has 2x builtin Subwoofers which the later NU8000 (2018) does not. They were replaced by 1x front speaker instead. 

NU8000 (2018)

KS8000 (2016)

The issue isn't Austin Evans, its fanboys from both sides of the fence that took a none deep dive video and blew it up to something its not. The guy wanted to check what was the 300g difference. He is allowed to have his opinion, he never claimed it as a fact it runs hotter without actually doing a deep dive on it. When people don't want to hear what they want to hear they will paint them as either a fanboy or to blame. When DF did videos comparing the XB1X to the PS4 Pro many fanboys claimed DF Xbox shills. But now DF is a source for them to use because they claim something they simply want to hear. 

Anyone who calls DF shills aren't worth listening to. DF is about as legit and unbiased as it gets no matter what they're covering. 

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the PS3 was delayed so SNY could add a GPU instead of having just the Cell do everything. That's not exactly cutting back or cutting corners yet didn't exactly help sales with the launch price and headstart it gave to the MS XB 360. Mind you without a GPU the launch could have been a total disaster. So, to save money and time or not? Perhaps spend more now and maybe save some later if possible? 

And lastly, lol, PS5 went from 3.9kg down to 3.6kg. A 'massive' reduction... that's caused not enough of a heat difference to worry about whatsoever in terms of gaming, yet, will certainly lead to much less fuel being burned while transporting tens of millions of units worldwide. All on top of the eco friendly packaging. 

Why doesn't MS reduce the weight of their fancy boxed 4.6kg XBSX fuel chugger?

XBSX is ruining the environment?.. 

Team "Green“ ?.. 

MS/XB are climate deniers!

Nobody get all worked up now. That's just my opinion on what little I've taken into account and concluded based on it...

Reducing weight doesn't matter much in this case as it was clearly over engineered to begin with proven by the tests.

Companies do adjust things yes but that's not kneecaping their product as kneecaping is much worse. Making slight adjustments to revisions are always bound to happen but in your case, kneecaping would be if the 2018 Samsung TV were to have a noticeably worse TV in image quality and such. Speakers to matter but they aren't the main reason anyone buys a TV. If Samsung were to reduce the image quality and HDR features and such of the 2018 model vs 2016 model, now that would be kneecaping.

Austin Evans is allowed to have an opinion but opinions can also have consequences. His "deep dive" wasn't much of a deep dive. All he did was point the Thermal camera to see that the new PS5 was exhausting the heat a few degrees more. Then he took it apart and measured the weight difference and looked at them side by side. He did a few more tests but none of which is proper testing to determine the cooling performance of the heat sink. GNs video is what you would call a Deep Dive. Not to mention, all throughout Austin Evans video, he kept trying to make the situation sound worse than it is which made the situation for him even worse, especially with his clickbaity title. Yes, the fanboys are nonsense and people that are Doxxing him should be banned from the internet if not put to jail but that doesn't mean Austin Evans opinion or testing was any good either.

You are entitled to your opinion, you wont see me bitching about it on the internet crying about what you think.

Well actually it turns out that the KS8000 TVs have better colors than the newer models.. because the newer models are just LED TVs where as the 2016 model was one of the first QLED TVs using Quantum Dot Technology, which seems to have been removed from the 8 Series. However we are going off course now.

300g was a significant weight reduction considering it all came from the heat sink. Questions needed to be asked as less heat sink, blowing more hot air with the exact same fan etc.

Austins video was NOT a deep dive, he even said it in his video. Its was just a quick comparison. Nothing to have been taken seriously in the first place. Different story if he did full tests and lied about the results. The only results he had was exhaust heat. He did a similar video with the Series X as well. 

That would be quite nonsense of Samsung if that's the case assuming the price of the TV stayed the same.

The weight doesn't mean much as far as the heatsink in concerned. We have seen plenty of times in the PC space that a bigger heatsink doesn't automatically mean better cooling and now the new tests for the PS5 sets another example. I do agree that it's good to test things to confirm.

Considering what he presented in the video, he made the issue sound bigger than it needed to be. That's what got peoples attention and imo, he deserved the flack he got in return. Just not the extremes that some people went to. While he didn't lie about the results, the test that he did with the thermal camera lead him to the incorrect conclusion.

I was looking at upgrading my KS8000 to the later models but when i realized that they have been butchered, to either reduce the price or to make room for newer features without drastically raising the price, i decided its best i just stay with the one i have for now. Samsung do still make QLED TVs obviously however that feature has been moved to another line of models.

This isn't something new with electronics, companies will find ways to reduce their cost on building products by sometimes sacrificing major things, some newer models might have less life span than the older ones. The reasons we see videos of people raising their eyebrows when they see big changes, like with Austin, was to see if the company is actually improving the model or are they just cheeping out while still charging the same price.

I disagree with the feedback he received, Austin didn't deserve the backlash he got, because people misinterpreted his video from the moment they saw the headline. They judged the book by its cover and didn't actually know that he wasn't claiming anything outside of the two things he did in the video, open up the console and read the heat coming out of the exhaust. He even stated in the video that further tests will need to be done to prove if it actually runs hotter. That's why i don't understand the backlash, he stated very important things in the video which people ignored and just went with, his stating lies.

Anyway it does not matter, Sony did a good job in redesigning the system by removing a fair chunk of heat sink and managed to make it run just as cool if not cooler. At least now i wont have to trade it in for the older model. I am sure the sculpers who tried to raise the price of the older machines will now have to bring the prices down to match the new model since its basically the same with no disadvantages.

I was looking at upgrading my KS8000 to the later models but when i realized that they have been butchered, to either reduce the price or to make room for newer features without drastically raising the price, i decided its best i just stay with the one i have for now. Samsung do still make QLED TVs obviously however that feature has been moved to another line of models.

This isn't something new with electronics, companies will find ways to reduce their cost on building products by sometimes sacrificing major things, some newer models might have less life span than the older ones. The reasons we see videos of people raising their eyebrows when they see big changes, like with Austin, was to see if the company is actually improving the model or are they just cheeping out while still charging the same price.

I disagree with the feedback he received, Austin didn't deserve the backlash he got, because people misinterpreted his video from the moment they saw the headline. They judged the book by its cover and didn't actually know that he wasn't claiming anything outside of the two things he did in the video, open up the console and read the heat coming out of the exhaust. He even stated in the video that further tests will need to be done to prove if it actually runs hotter. That's why i don't understand the backlash, he stated very important things in the video which people ignored and just went with, his stating lies.

Anyway it does not matter, Sony did a good job in redesigning the system by removing a fair chunk of heat sink and managed to make it run just as cool if not cooler. At least now i wont have to trade it in for the older model. I am sure the sculpers who tried to raise the price of the older machines will now have to bring the prices down to match the new model since its basically the same with no disadvantages.

The weight doesn't mean much as far as the heatsink in concerned. We have seen plenty of times in the PC space that a bigger heatsink doesn't automatically mean better cooling and now the new tests for the PS5 sets another example. I do agree that it's good to test things to confirm.

You are entitled to your opinion, you wont see me bitching about it on the internet crying about what you think.