{"id":119013,"date":"2020-10-07T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/371485"},"modified":"2020-10-07T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T14:19:00","slug":"playstation-5-teardown-offers-an-up-close-look-at-the-next-gen-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/07\/playstation-5-teardown-offers-an-up-close-look-at-the-next-gen-console\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation 5 teardown offers an up-close look at the next-gen console"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has uploaded a PlayStation 5 teardown video to showcase the shiny innards of its next-gen console.&nbsp;As well as offering an up-close and personal look at the company&#8217;s new console hardware, the teardown also provides a couple of fresh insights into how the PS5 is put together.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For instance, we now know&nbsp;the circular console stand must be unscrewed from the base of the console and clipped onto the side when putting the honking slab of a machine into the horizontal position, which serves as a nice early warning for folks yet to invest in a screwdriver.<\/p>\n<p>Those side panels can also be removed with a quick pop &#8216;n&#8217; slide, revealing the PlayStation 5&#8217;s cooling fan and ventilation systems. Owners who haven&#8217;t heard the words &#8216;Mr Sheen&#8217; in a while might&#8217;ve also noticed the built-in dust catcher&nbsp;that can be vacuumed clean once or twice a decade.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At around the 2:50 mark, we&#8217;re also shown an M.2 interface hidden underneath a silver panel that can be fitted with a compatible SSD to expand the console&#8217;s&nbsp;built-in storage. It seems fairly easy to access, but isn&#8217;t quite as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/370768\/The_1TB_storage_expansions_cards_for_the_Xbox_Series_S_and_X_will_cost_220.php\">straightforward a solution as Microsoft&#8217;s storage expansion cards for the Series X and S<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are, of course, more tidbits in the full breakdown, which you can watch right here by hitting play on the video embedded above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has uploaded a PlayStation 5 teardown video to showcase the shiny innards of its next-gen console.&nbsp;As well as offering an up-close and personal look at the company&#8217;s new console hardware, the teardown also provides a couple of fresh insights into how the PS5 is put together.&nbsp; For instance, we now know&nbsp;the circular console stand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}