1 00:00:00,170 --> 00:00:03,750 - This video may contain my most blatant conflict of interest yet, 2 00:00:03,750 --> 00:00:08,270 but you guys don't care because you love the drama. And neither does our sponsor dbrand. 3 00:00:08,270 --> 00:00:13,680 That's right, dbrand's not only sponsored this video, but they actually bought me two sets 4 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,540 of Sony, geez, PlayStation 5 console covers, 5 00:00:17,540 --> 00:00:20,910 assuming probably, that I was going to compare them 6 00:00:20,910 --> 00:00:25,760 to dbrand's own Darkplates, which I gotta say dbrand, 7 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:29,830 I'm not really a fan of the false advertising that you've got going on here. 8 00:00:29,830 --> 00:00:34,030 I mean, I ordered a Darkplate and this is very clearly light. 9 00:00:34,030 --> 00:00:39,140 Okay? Can we all just take a moment to shout out dbrand for deceptive advertising practices? 10 00:00:39,140 --> 00:00:43,340 Darkplate? Excuse me? God, I hate those guys so much. 11 00:00:43,340 --> 00:00:47,336 Anyway. I've also got a PlayStation, sorry, Jono. This is your PlayStation 5. 12 00:00:47,336 --> 00:00:51,970 - [Jono] It's fine. - I've also got a PlayStation 5 13 00:00:51,970 --> 00:00:56,000 that we can try out the official, first-party console covers on. 14 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,493 So what color do you guys wanna start with today? You wanna do black or do you wanna do pink? 15 00:00:59,493 --> 00:01:04,130 - Start with black. - Start with black? All right. - It's not pink, it's red. - It's red? 16 00:01:04,130 --> 00:01:08,417 Cosmic Red. I'd say that color's a little nebulous if you ask me. 17 00:01:08,417 --> 00:01:11,433 (drum rolls) Ah. 18 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:16,480 No? All right. It's a whole galaxy of puns up here. 19 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:20,513 Ah, I left my Jerry-rig-everything box cutter at home. Still got my spider comb. 20 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:25,820 What does Sony have to say for themselves? Okay, for PS5 consoles with a disc drive. 21 00:01:25,820 --> 00:01:31,030 Fair enough. Midnight black cover, blah, match them with a matching dual sense wireless controller 22 00:01:31,030 --> 00:01:34,793 to complete the look. Ah, that would be amazing. Good solid packaging. 23 00:01:35,780 --> 00:01:39,700 Definitely love to see minimal use of plastics 24 00:01:39,700 --> 00:01:44,230 and other non-recyclable materials, especially for products like this 25 00:01:44,230 --> 00:01:47,693 that are not especially fragile, right? 26 00:01:48,740 --> 00:01:52,400 I mean, I didn't say none. I said minimal, minimal. Okay, hmm. 27 00:01:54,100 --> 00:01:58,800 I actually kind of like the finish here. Sony knows a thing or two 28 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:03,220 about plastic molding and I will tell you that much. 29 00:02:03,220 --> 00:02:07,570 Absolutely immaculate surface finish on this 30 00:02:07,570 --> 00:02:12,360 and a very pleasing, almost soft touch feel to it. 31 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:17,510 You wanna touch it, Andy? Is it the same or better? - Ooh. - It's got kind of like a velvety feel to it, doesn't it? 32 00:02:17,510 --> 00:02:22,540 - Yeah. - I like it. Let's have a look at how it's gonna do in terms of like fingerprint resistance. 33 00:02:22,540 --> 00:02:26,230 Horst, help me a out here. I say, 34 00:02:26,230 --> 00:02:30,530 that this is a pretty fingerprint resistant surface. 35 00:02:30,530 --> 00:02:35,560 Well, I've been told that you are the fingerprint king. - Fingerprints are a bit of a bug bear on Mac Address 36 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,610 and my hands are quite clammy today. So let's see. 37 00:02:38,610 --> 00:02:43,870 - Yep, we did manage to, I will say you're, (Horst chuckles) you are definitely more finger printy than me, 38 00:02:43,870 --> 00:02:48,610 but watch this. Without even a microfiber cloth or anything. 39 00:02:48,610 --> 00:02:52,310 If I just like give it a little. - It's, it's an improvement, yeah? 40 00:02:52,310 --> 00:02:55,496 If only iPhone screens were like that. 41 00:02:55,496 --> 00:03:00,110 (everyone laughs) Subscribe to Mac Address. Lots of great Apple content over there. 42 00:03:00,110 --> 00:03:03,623 He tries to use an iPad as a phone for like two weeks. 43 00:03:04,810 --> 00:03:09,440 Anyway, one of the big controversies around the first-party Sony plates 44 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:13,490 has been that the colors do not match, the controllers they're supposed to match. 45 00:03:13,490 --> 00:03:18,240 I've heard a lot of criticism, notably from dbrand, sponsoring this video, 46 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:24,750 that the black looks more like dark blue. Frankly, I've seen pictures that are convincing 47 00:03:24,750 --> 00:03:30,550 that the black is more of a dark blue. My sample looks great. 48 00:03:30,550 --> 00:03:36,960 And honestly, the light makes more of a difference than the the actual difference in color here. 49 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,740 It's not blue at all. Aargh. - Pull on the PS logo. 50 00:03:40,740 --> 00:03:44,920 Every single time. That's what I'm pulling on. I'm pulling on the PS logo, Andy, come on. 51 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:49,680 I swear, every time I try to do it. It's really easy once you know how to do it. 52 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,053 I always wanna pull it up, but it's not up, which makes sense, 53 00:03:53,053 --> 00:03:58,790 because if you were to pick up your console by the popped collar here then that would be bad, right? 54 00:03:58,790 --> 00:04:02,180 So you wanna, there you go, right. Come off down. 55 00:04:02,180 --> 00:04:07,630 All right. So let's take this white console and make our lives a little less white. 56 00:04:07,630 --> 00:04:11,370 Shall we? Oops, this is this side. For those of you who are wondering, by the way, 57 00:04:11,370 --> 00:04:15,560 as I'm finishing applying these actually dark plates 58 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,640 to the PlayStation 5, why dbrand would sponsor 59 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,903 a video showcasing their competitor's product, you can check out 60 00:04:21,903 --> 00:04:26,460 our full unboxing of dbrand's Darkplates 2.0, 61 00:04:26,460 --> 00:04:30,040 which also of course have matching skins and all of that good stuff, 62 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:33,300 here on ShortCircuit. We go into the whole legal drama 63 00:04:33,300 --> 00:04:38,370 between dbrand and Sony that led to the release of the Darkplates 2.0 version, 64 00:04:38,370 --> 00:04:42,130 rather than the ones that are styled like the original PlayStation 1. 65 00:04:42,130 --> 00:04:46,413 And that styling really, is where a lot of the polarizability? 66 00:04:48,670 --> 00:04:53,030 Polarizationess? Where a lot of the controversy 67 00:04:53,030 --> 00:04:56,530 around the look of the PlayStation 5 comes from. 68 00:04:56,530 --> 00:04:59,760 Though, I have to say in spite of the weird shape 69 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:03,223 it undeniably looks better in black just like it did 70 00:05:03,223 --> 00:05:06,740 when we checked out dbrand's original Darkplates, way back in the day, 71 00:05:06,740 --> 00:05:10,130 which looked pretty much like this, with a couple of changes. 72 00:05:10,130 --> 00:05:14,460 Sony of course didn't have to go with a non infringing pattern on the inside. 73 00:05:14,460 --> 00:05:20,680 So it has the original. Here we go. PlayStation circle, square, triangle stuff. 74 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:24,720 How much are these? - $54.99. - $54.99. 75 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:30,180 So they're priced about the same, but the functionality is not quite the same. 76 00:05:30,180 --> 00:05:33,240 So here's the difference. Oh, dbrand's version. 77 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:37,630 Darkplates 2.0, obviously available in different colors. 78 00:05:37,630 --> 00:05:42,410 So they've got this delightful, retro gray, that personally I absolutely love, 79 00:05:42,410 --> 00:05:47,030 really reminds me of the original PlayStation 1. And they've got a different shape, 80 00:05:47,030 --> 00:05:51,770 which allowed them to actually produce them without infringing Sony's patent 81 00:05:51,770 --> 00:05:55,620 on this particular popped collar shape. 82 00:05:55,620 --> 00:06:01,990 And of course the cooling fans. So dbrand has little filtered openings for, 83 00:06:01,990 --> 00:06:05,350 here, hold on. Let's actually, yeah, let's go ahead and pop this one. 84 00:06:05,350 --> 00:06:09,470 For both the intake of the cooling fan on the PlayStation 5 85 00:06:09,470 --> 00:06:13,540 as well as the other more different intake on the PlayStation 5. 86 00:06:13,540 --> 00:06:16,810 These are easily, you just got it. There you go. 87 00:06:16,810 --> 00:06:20,290 Can clean them and pop them back into place, if you're into that sort of thing. 88 00:06:20,290 --> 00:06:25,710 Now I haven't personally tested it, but Gamers Nexus did a really great video, 89 00:06:25,710 --> 00:06:30,900 showcasing how much of a difference it makes to the internal temperatures of the PlayStation 5, 90 00:06:30,900 --> 00:06:34,890 if you don't have the intake fans covered. It's obviously kind of common sense 91 00:06:34,890 --> 00:06:39,210 that covering intake fans is not as good as not covering intake fans, but there you go. 92 00:06:39,210 --> 00:06:44,290 Now let's take a look at the red color, shall we? We're gonna put light strips onto a console 93 00:06:44,290 --> 00:06:47,935 with the Sony plates. - Whoa. 94 00:06:47,935 --> 00:06:52,290 - Yeah, that's right. See, just because you buy the first-party one from Sony 95 00:06:52,290 --> 00:06:56,930 'cause maybe you like the color. Maybe you like the popped collar look, 96 00:06:56,930 --> 00:07:01,580 doesn't mean can't still trick out your consoles with dbrand skins and light strips, 97 00:07:01,580 --> 00:07:04,700 and all kinds of cool stuff. Did I mention dbrand is the sponsor of this video? 98 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:08,750 'Cause they are. They paid us money to talk about their competitor's product. 99 00:07:08,750 --> 00:07:11,940 Look at that. God, they're stupid. Pricing's very similar. 100 00:07:11,940 --> 00:07:15,750 So it comes down to whether you care about buying the official Sony product 101 00:07:15,750 --> 00:07:19,523 or having like better cooling on your console. Let's have a look. 102 00:07:19,523 --> 00:07:23,940 Wow, camera really does not capture this color very well. 103 00:07:23,940 --> 00:07:26,913 I'm gonna get my color checker back out here, ladies and gentlemen, 104 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,690 'cause this has like got a very pinky look to it, in my opinion, 105 00:07:31,690 --> 00:07:35,470 supposed to be Cosmic Red. Okay, so they actually have a pink one. 106 00:07:35,470 --> 00:07:38,830 Yeah, this isn't pretty pinky red. I don't know. I'm not saying I don't like it. 107 00:07:38,830 --> 00:07:42,760 I think it looks great, but the camera says red. 108 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:47,520 You guys don't think it has a pink to it, am I crazy? - [Andy] It has a pink and purplish tint. 109 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:51,470 - [Jono] Yeah, like if I didn't know the names and you said that was pink, I'm like, okay. 110 00:07:51,470 --> 00:07:55,169 - Honestly this looks really close to me too. This looks great. 111 00:07:55,169 --> 00:07:59,150 Maybe this one's a little farther off. I think that really has more to do 112 00:07:59,150 --> 00:08:02,610 with the difference in surface finish though. I mean we're going through this at our new house. 113 00:08:02,610 --> 00:08:06,600 What we're finding is, that the difference between one shade of paint and another 114 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:11,390 is actually far less than the difference between a single shade of paint 115 00:08:11,390 --> 00:08:16,910 under different lighting conditions. So it's almost impossible to get everything matching 116 00:08:16,910 --> 00:08:19,930 under (plate crashing) all conditions. 117 00:08:19,930 --> 00:08:23,890 Well, I guess, we inadvertently are going to check and see how, yeah, 118 00:08:23,890 --> 00:08:28,400 how durable it is, if you happen to drop your PlayStation or something. 119 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:32,550 Okay, let's just make sure nothing falls anymore. Honestly, almost anything looks better 120 00:08:32,550 --> 00:08:36,150 than the original white to me. What do you guys think of this color? - [Andy] That's better than the white. 121 00:08:36,150 --> 00:08:39,710 - Yeah, I really like it actually. Okay, but hold on. 122 00:08:39,710 --> 00:08:44,900 Now, I'm getting paid by dbrand, but nobody else here is getting paid by dbrand, 123 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:48,040 so I wanna hear your honest thoughts. I pay all you guys the same. 124 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:51,940 That is my personal Linus Tech Tips guarantee. What would you rather have? 125 00:08:51,940 --> 00:08:56,196 Cosmic Red or Retro, I don't know, Fuze? 126 00:08:56,196 --> 00:08:59,560 - [Andy] Are we just talking colors, or? - Just talking color. Just talking color. 127 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:02,690 - [Jono] I'm Cosmic Red. - You like the Cosmic Red color? - [Andy] Cosmic Red. 128 00:09:02,690 --> 00:09:06,420 You guys like the Cosmic Red. All right. God, you young kids. 129 00:09:06,420 --> 00:09:11,820 You young kids who didn't have a PlayStation 1. - [Jono] But I will have to cut off that popped collar. 130 00:09:11,820 --> 00:09:15,200 - See I'm different. I'm an old guy who didn't have a PlayStation 1. 131 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,263 I didn't have any game consoles at that point in my life. All right. 132 00:09:18,263 --> 00:09:22,000 Let's have a look at our light strips here now. These are cool. 133 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,900 The PlayStation has these little like strips of light 134 00:09:25,900 --> 00:09:30,670 but out of the box, you can't change the color of them. But with dbrand's light strips 135 00:09:30,670 --> 00:09:36,060 we can actually change the color. So why don't we go with not Cosmic Red? 136 00:09:36,060 --> 00:09:39,610 Actually, I wonder if this one would match better. What do you guys want for the color? 137 00:09:39,610 --> 00:09:43,760 Help me out here. We got purple, orange, other more different orange, green, more different green, 138 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,390 purple, other more different purple. - Green. - You want green? 139 00:09:47,390 --> 00:09:50,102 - Yeah. - Really, green in this? - Lambo. - Yeah. 140 00:09:51,317 --> 00:09:58,770 - All right, you're not wrong. You're not wrong, Andy. Okay. Now I have no idea how to apply the light strips. 141 00:09:58,770 --> 00:10:02,870 I don't even know where the lights are. The truth is I don't have a PlayStation 5 console. 142 00:10:02,870 --> 00:10:07,080 I mean, I own multiple PlayStation 5 consoles but I asked my son. 143 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:11,610 I was like, when we move into the new place should we get an Xbox or like a PlayStation or something? 144 00:10:11,610 --> 00:10:15,194 Do you want one? He's like, why would we need that? (crew laughs) 145 00:10:15,194 --> 00:10:18,633 - My son. - That's my son. - That's my son, that's my boy. 146 00:10:19,590 --> 00:10:22,797 My boy right there. Wouldn't we just put a PC there, you know? 147 00:10:25,373 --> 00:10:28,425 All right, I need to figure out how to do this now. - But then there's the argument 148 00:10:28,425 --> 00:10:31,830 of playing multiplayer games, too. - Multi-player games, really? 149 00:10:31,830 --> 00:10:36,500 You wanna talk to people online? Have you met the people online? It's like literally a meme. 150 00:10:36,500 --> 00:10:41,040 How toxic online gamers are? No offense. Love you gamers, but I don't need you in my body. 151 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,930 They go here, right? - Yeah. - They must. Oh, there, for crying out loud. 152 00:10:44,930 --> 00:10:49,021 It's right here. Now this is a little confuzzling. 153 00:10:49,021 --> 00:10:52,783 It seems to go all the way down to here. Is there another piece? It's only at the top. 154 00:10:52,783 --> 00:10:57,210 All right. So how do I tell, how do I tell right and left? 155 00:10:57,210 --> 00:11:00,330 Oh, that's why it darkens towards the end. Oh, this is kinda cool. 156 00:11:00,330 --> 00:11:04,073 Is it right from the front or right from the back? You know what I'm saying? 157 00:11:04,073 --> 00:11:08,750 Like, are we doing it from behind or doing it from the front? We could look it up on dbrand's website. 158 00:11:08,750 --> 00:11:12,140 They actually have fantastic tutorials for how to apply all their products. 159 00:11:12,140 --> 00:11:14,873 And they will mock you if you don't use them. Bring it on. 160 00:11:16,530 --> 00:11:19,623 I think you were right about the orientation though, Jono, this seems right. 161 00:11:19,623 --> 00:11:23,183 It's going on pretty good here. Oh, yeah. 162 00:11:23,183 --> 00:11:27,920 - [Jono] If it's wrong you can just peel it off. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's one of the great things about dbrand skins, okay. 163 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:33,670 They don't leave any residue. So if you ever wanna remove them and replace them with a different dbrand skin, 164 00:11:33,670 --> 00:11:36,980 or you just get tired of the look or whatever, super easy to get off. 165 00:11:36,980 --> 00:11:40,193 No residue, no nothing. That's what I always say. 166 00:11:40,193 --> 00:11:43,830 Quality products from bad people. They do have a good customer service. 167 00:11:43,830 --> 00:11:47,530 All right, cool. Oh, I'm excited about this. This is gonna look awesome. 168 00:11:47,530 --> 00:11:52,770 Even if you buy the Sony product they're still gonna get you for these light strip things. 169 00:11:52,770 --> 00:11:56,600 Oh, cool. 170 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:00,260 I like it. That's awesome. 171 00:12:00,260 --> 00:12:05,180 I mean, of course I was paid to tell you, I like it. But fun fact, FTC guidelines, 172 00:12:05,180 --> 00:12:08,897 which I am not beholden to, because I'm not an American and neither is dbrand, 173 00:12:08,897 --> 00:12:12,470 but FTC guidelines tell me that even if I'm sponsored 174 00:12:12,470 --> 00:12:15,570 I'm still not allowed to say anything I don't actually believe. 175 00:12:15,570 --> 00:12:22,360 I like it. (crew laughs) So there you go. Whether you like more cooling and dbrand's colors, 176 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:27,590 or whether you like Sony's colors, dbrand is still gonna get you for light strips. 177 00:12:27,590 --> 00:12:31,970 That's right. Expensive electronics tape. You'll buy it and you'll like it. 178 00:12:31,970 --> 00:12:34,520 Subscribe to ShortCircuit. We have fun here.