Just finding a Playstation 5 is part of the adventure…the other half is finding room for it. The PS5 has blatantly defied the trend in recent years of shrinking consoles, offering up the largest machine they’ve ever produced. It shatters the previous record set by the Playstation 3 at 15.4 inches in diameter.
Yujin Morisawa, the designer of the new console, hears your complaints about the size. He too thinks it is too small….wait, WHAT?
That’s right, it was supposed to be bigger. “I actually had to shrink it down a little bit from the first drawing,” Morisawa told the
Washington Post. He doesn’t specify just how large this beast was supposed to be (Japan is only so large an island), but he was forced to shrink it down by the engineering departmenr.
Why’s it so big, Yujin? It’s all about displacing the large amount of heat that all those cutting-edge chips generate. “I knew it was going to be...
