This might be the real reason why the PS5 dev kit has such a wild design

[Chris Smith]

• The PS5 news that you were waiting for has been delayed due to the ongoing protests in the US, but Sony will hold an event soon.
• The PlayStation 5 design might not be unveiled at the show, but a new Sony patent reveals an intriguing detail about an already confirmed PS5 console.
• The PS5 development kit that leaked last year may have had an essential purpose for Sony, new documentation reveals. The dev kit may have been used to test the cooling system that Sony might use in the final design.

Microsoft unveiled the Xbox Series X design in mid-December during a gaming event, in a surprising move for the industry. But Sony failed to respond, keeping the PlayStation 5 design still secret. The company just postponed the PS5 event it had scheduled for this week, in light of the ongoing protests against police brutality. But we were never expecting the PS5 design to be shown during the online-only keynote. Sony’s marketing strategy differs from Microsoft, and the PS5 design reveal could come later down the road. We do know how the PS5 development kit looks like thanks to a flurry of leaks from last year. A patent revealed a console design unlike anything Sony made so far, and all the leaks that followed confirmed the existence of such a product. We even wondered whether that’s actually the PS5 design that Sony will eventually choose for the console, as the PS5 dev kit was a lot more elaborate than previous PlayStation test units. Why would Sony go through all the trouble of building that unusual PS5 case and ship it to developers if it wasn’t going to use it? And why would Sony patent the contraption? It turns out there may be a reasonable explanation for Sony’s wild PS5 dev kit design, and it’s all coming in the form of a different patent.

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