If this is a real photo of the PS5, it’s even bigger than we thought

[Jacob Siegal]

• The first live photo of the PS5 may have leaked from a factory, revealing the massive size of the console.
• Sony revealed the design of the PS5 at its Future of Gaming event earlier this month, but we have yet to see the console in the wild, which makes it hard to get a sense of scale.
• Sony will likely give us a closer look at the console at a future online event.

Earlier this month, Sony finally pulled back the curtain on the PlayStation 5, showing us the next-generation hardware for the very first time during its Future of Gaming event. Love the design or hate it, it's undeniable that the unique look of the PS5 is a conversation starter, and social media has been abuzz ever since the stream ended. At the end of the day, no matter how outrageous the PS5 looks, it's going to spend its life sitting beneath a TV stand or a media center in millions of homes, which means there's only one question that really matters: How big is it?

Seeing the PS5 in a white void in a promotional video is one thing, but without a hands-on video or a live image of the device in the wild, it is tough to judge the scale of the devices seen in the photo at the top of this page. Unsurprisingly, internet sleuths got to work right away, measuring the disc drive and the USB port on the front of the PS5 to ascertain the approximate size of the console, and based on their findings, it's very, very big. But over the weekend, a photo began making the rounds that seemingly shows the PS5 in the wild for the first time.

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