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Sony’s PlayStation 5 Teardown Reveals Japanese-Nerd-Level Attention to Design Inside and Out

The world waits with bated breath for November. I mean yeah, there’s like some kind of political thing that month, but that’s also when Sony’s vaunted PlayStation 5 will be released.

If you’re lucky enough to get your hands on one, you’re not supposed to take it apart. “Disassembling your PS5 console will invalidate your manufacturer’s guarantee,” Sony writes. Perhaps that’s why they released this video of the PS5’s mechanical design chief, Yasuhiro Ootori, taking a PS5 apart; if he shows you the insides his team came up with, you won’t be as tempted to look inside yours.

The amount of design attention they lavished on this thing is absurd. Look at the thought that went into just the removable mount, with the hiding place for the screws, the inner rotating thingy, the removable caps for the screw holes:

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