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- Sony's PS5 is one of the biggest video game consoles of all time, and now we finally know why.
- According to one of the lead engineers behind the PlayStation 5, the cooling fan determined the size of the console, as one large fan was preferable to two smaller fans.
- Sony could have made a smaller console by using two fans, but the PS5 might have been more expensive to make as a result, and thus would have cost more at retail as well.
Sony finally showed us the design of the PS5 during its Future of Gaming event, but we walked away with nearly as many questions as we had going in. We still didn't know the price, the release date, which games would be available on day one, or what the user interface would look like. Many of those mysteries have been solved, but this week, we finally got an answer to the most important question of all: Why is the PS5 so dang huge?
In an interview with Nikkei Xtech on Tuesday, Yasuhiro Ootori, the Sony Interactive Entertainment VP of mechanical design (who you might remember from that PS5 teardown video), explained that the cooling fan is the culprit behind the PS5's considerable bulk. Such a substantial component was necessary to cool the mainboard.
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We finally know why the PS5 is so enormous originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 22:02:31 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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