lol now the memes have become real: it looks like a clearance bin 20 quid router.
Staying with Xbox.
I just wish it was a box, not this travesty of design
Step 1: take a box that is aesthetically pleasing
Step 2: make some airholes
Step 3: put PS5 in it
Step 4: ???
Step 5: profit
Step 6: Cover yourself in oil
Step 7: Wait for wait for it to rain
Step 8: Fly
Ugliest console ever made
Am I the only one who thinks it looks fine?
I like it. I see nothing wrong with it and in my opinion people are overreacting.
I kind of like it. Looks neat. I wouldn’t lay it down though. Definitely looks like something that should be standing up.
I kind of like it. The 2 little legs and the random curves give it a sort of 50s retrofuturism vibe.
I think (from the front) it looks better, works better (smaller). The half panel matte, half panel gloss for the sides is definitely a shortcoming I find worse but eh, you get a removable CD slot
Aesthetics mean exactly nothing when we’re talking about a game console tbh. It sits in its spot for 10 years to play the odd game and watch YouTube or Netflix on. Idk why people like to act like they’re so special for thinking it looks one way or another, it’s a glorified PC and takes up 1/3 of the space, couldn’t care less what it looks like
Aesthetics mean exactly nothing when we’re talking about a game console tbh. It sits in its spot for 10 years to play the odd game and watch YouTube or Netflix on. Idk why people like to act like they’re so special for thinking it looks one way or another, it’s a glorified PC and takes up 1/3 of the space, couldn’t care less what it looks like
They took what looked worse about the PS5 (odd curves) and accentuated them, making it look even more worse. Not my cup of tea
Same, it’s fine, people are dramatic
I don’t particularly like the side panels on the slim. They split them up into halves, and then made on half matte and one glossy. It looks dumb imo
This is the Tesla truck of consoles.
:/ I like the designs, more so with the digital version.
Call me back when it’s cheaper
I like Dave2D’s comparison of this refresh to the Steam Deck wherein both Sony and Valve are in unique positions where their dominance in their own market space should mean they can afford to reduce costs for their hardware since losses are subsidized by their marketplace anyway.
Valve’s the only one doing it, while upgrading the Deck OLED with a better screen, better APU, better fan, and more battery life. Sony on the other hand is just resting on its laurels.
better APU,
?!?
For the form factor, the 7nm reduction to 6nm supposedly means less heat to deal with.
Well technically Valve kept the exact same price tiers, but the upgrade is much more substantial.
When Nintendo did something similar a few years back they charged $50 extra. And speaking of dominance in their relative space…
Sony on the other hand is just resting on its laurels
Don’t forget raising the price of a PSN subscription pretty significantly.
While offering a significantly trashier service on PC vs. Gamepass.
Like damn, Streaming only? In a first world country where throttling and data caps is still a thing? Didn’t they learn anything from Google’s run with Stadia?
For the hardware you get playstations are cheap. Look at the price of modern graphics cards.
That’s not playstation being cheap. That’s Nvidia and AMD price gouging their customers. Intel’s GPUs are starting to catch up and they’re reasonably priced for the most part.
Don’t forget the crypto miners causing an explosion in demand. They’re often willing to pay more than gamers are.
You’ll be waiting a long long time. It’s not even priced at what the market will bear
And when the light on the controller is on meaning the microphone is actually ON! Way to crap the bed on that one Sony. Also, battery life isn’t the best on the controller as well.
And doesn’t look ridiculous
Call ME back when there’s more than like two exclusive titles I’m kinda interested in playing but not enough to spend PS5 money to do it.
I’m sure it costs less to make, but that’s not what you asked for.
If they made a version in a minimal rectangular box, I’d buy that. I really don’t understand why it has to look like a tube of toothpaste someone grabbed on one end
Imagine buying a gaming console for aesthetics. 🤣
The Xbox series X would be perfect for you
At least in terms of the main chipset it might not be cheaper. Things are weird and costs at TSMC have been going way up the last few years.
Cheaper? Call me when there’s games worth playing on it.
We want:
- latest tech to be the cheapest;
- oldest tech to run the latest tech;
- but also latest tech needs to feel and look next gen.
Gamers are genius.
We want:
latest tech to be
the cheapest;somewhat affordableoldest tech to run the latest tech;but also latest tech needs to feel and look next gen.
Ftfy
Thanks!
500€ to play latest tech games is very affordable compared to what it costs on PC. Alan Wake 2 was a great example of that when people with 7 year old rigs lost their minds.
don’t forget that they’ll be ewaste in 10 years when the activation servers for the disc drives goes offline. Then you’ll have spent $400 on a console that cant phone home to download games from its store, and cant phone home to register its disc drive which knocks out physical games.
PlayStation was already a tinder box that overheat more then most thanks to a cheap copper heat seat sink and Liquid Metal thar burned away. I imagine the Slim will be even worse.
Digital > disc
I literally chose to wait 3 years for the slim and this is how they did me. Am thinking about a Steam Deck now instead.
Yeah I had been holding out hope for a toned down slim redesign as well.
I’ve got my gaming setup in my little man cave where it’s all pretty front and center. I can’t bring myself to stick this ugly fucking thing under my tv when it’s literally gonna be like 3’ from my face. Not keen at the thought of having to drop like $50 on custom side panels either, just so the thing can look halfway decent.
Not everyone cares about console design, but I can’t stand shitty looking tech. Especially when it’s going to constantly be in my face. Unless they release something drastic in another couple of years, I’ll probably skip PlayStation this gen altogether 🤷🏻♂️
Is your man cave boring as shit? I can’t see how a PS5 would look out of place in a man cave, if anything it sounds like it’d make yours look cooler 😂
😆 Imagine insulting a complete stranger right off the bat because they don’t like the way a game console looks. Oh, man… I didn’t realize people still fanboi’d this hard in 2023.
Please except my apologies if I offended you or your girlfriend the PS5. Time to move on.
It wasn’t an actual insult I was fucking with you, I used a laughing emoji lol. I’m certainly no fanboy I hardly even play games, I’m mainly a PC player but I’m also very interested in both PS and Xbox.
Shit I hope fanboyism still is a thing though, that’s part of what used to be so great and fun about console gaming to me, the vibe is real seeing two sides fight to be the best. Same with the looks, seeing 2 companies trying to make a cool looking console. If anything the look of the original Xbox destroys anything PS has put out before the PS5 in my opinion. Games are art and the PS5 fucking reflects that
Have you heard of minimalistic design? Not everything needs to be extravagant ‘as shit’. Some people prefer elegance and sobriety (which this console is not) and that’s perfectly fine.
Are you buying it to look at it or play games?
Sheeeeit at that price I would prefer to do both.
Honestly, it’s sitting right in the middle of your living room. It’s not crazy to care about how the thing looks and choose something else based partly on that.
Just put it in a tv cabinet or unit - problem solved.
Closed cabinets exist
Sure. And you can get fans to ventilate the cabinet, or you can have the cabinet door open. Or you can buy Darkplates from D Brand.
Or you can decide it’s not worth trying to work around how ugly the PS5 is and either buy a different console or buy a nice computer case and build an htpc instead (which is the route I went, incidentally).
All of these are valid options if you hate the look of the PS5. I didn’t say it wasn’t a solveable problem, just that it’s valid to consider the aesthetics of the thing.
Great, I’ll just replace my matching furniture.
You’re not a true gamer unless you’re willing to turn your whole house into an early 2000s sci fi film set to match the PS5, obviously.
The OG ps4 was a GORGEOUS design. And then we got this shit.
The 2nd PS3 design was nothing but class
lol it looked like a slanted vcr.
I’d like to remind you of the whole power button and eject button fiasco with the PS4.
I always press both, because I never remember which one did what
I liked having my disc randomly eject when I was playing a game. Kept things unpredictable.
Honestly in terms of design the PS3 slim takes the cake really. Then they did the Super Slim which was ugly as shit.
The OG ps4 was boring. Just a generic black box.
I think that’s what it needs to be though. Seeing as it usually is in the focus of the room next to the tv. They should have made it subtle and non offensive. And black
You dont want your console to look like something designed by someone from the 1960s who took their inspiration from a tube TV and the Jetsons image of the future?
To me peak design was the pancake PS2. OG PS3 was also a pretty lookin gal.
I wouldn’t say it was gorgeous, but it had a good look. IMO, the 2 and 4 were their best takes.
I appreciate the bold take of the PS5, but what I hate it the sheer inability to walk away from a design where it’s clear that an aspect of it wasn’t able to be incorporated into it (cough disc drive cough) so they just gave it a tumor on its side.
The modular drive should have always been part of the design too. There’s no way that wasn’t though of before the slim take and it makes so much sense from a production standpoint.
PS1 was also a great design, just very of its time. Consoles used to sit on the floor, plugged into the front inputs on TVs. They were set up when they were needed, by mostly by children, and then put away (mostly by parents). Durable plastic with a top-loading disc drive and big friendly buttons made sense.
The genius of the PS2’s design was Sony saying “no, gaming is here to stay, I live in the entertainment center full time now.” Nintendo didn’t get the memo that generation.
I don’t know why, but I love this comment. Thanks for it.
Gorgeous is generous, it looks like a big modem.
So much kvetching in this thread and it won’t matter, people will still buy the PS5 regardless of what whiners on Reddit say. If the design aesthetics of consoles mattered, the Series X and S would have outsold the PS5 2 to 1 instead of the reverse.
The Series X is a literal brick
I think of it more as a concrete block! It is however, an unobtrusive concrete block that takes up as little visual and physical space as possible. As someone who’s had trouble finding a physical space for my PS5, I would be quite happy with something a bit more sober. The PS5’s size was dictated by an overestimation of how much cooling would be required on the final production silicon and how to cool it cheaply, but the design is purely a marketing decision. I suppose it ultimately doesn’t matter, since the PS5 is outselling Xbox by a ridiculous margin, and third party software sales on Xbox are less than its market share would suggest. I do appreciate the design and engineering in the Series X, though the things that allow the compact form factor like the split motherboard and vapor chamber cooler mean that it costs around 30% more to make than the PS5, which necessitated the compromised Series S.
I’m glad they made it so it wobbles. Thanks for that.
Why didn’t they make the top flat so you can lay it down there instead of the weird clear plastic strut.
You’d wobble too, standing on toes like those.
Oh okay so it’s not just me.
Even PS4 Slim had this weird wobbling shit. Instead of 4 rubber legs, it only had 3. Two in the front, one in the back.