The PlayStation 5 was going to be even bigger, but Sony engineers told the designer to shrink it down a bit. Yujin Morisawa reveals all the details in an interview with the Washington Post.
At nearly 16 inches tall and more than 10 inches wide, the PlayStation 5 is a very large video game console. Sizable, some might say. Beefy. But, would you believe it was almost even bigger? Love or hate the design, the PS5s notable chonk is undeniable. According to designer Yujin Morisawa, in an interview published Monday by the Washington Post, the original drawings depicted an even more colossal device. I knew it was going to be larger because I know how much power there was going to be, he said, so I knew how much air flow you would need and how much space for a heat sink. In the beginning, when I started drawing, it was much larger even though I didnt know what engineering was going to do. Its kind of funny that engineering actually told me its too big. So, I actually had to shrink ...
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