how ironic is it david that out of the two of us i'm the first one
with a playstation 5. sad it's finally here launch day
playstation 5 ladies and gentlemen and look we even got a special fancy
package which honestly i'm going to discard immediately david do you want
this to put on your wall would you frame it and put it on your
wall no it's not cool enough no
oh the last bit came real easy there
we've got the disc version so as you guys already know the playstation 5
comes in two versions for 500 us dollars you get the one with a blu-ray drive and
for 400 us dollars you get the one where you have to buy full priced games
instead of buying them second hand now
okay david i know you're just a full fat guy in the first place and you were
gonna get the disc version no matter what no did you go digital shut up yeah
i didn't buy a single disc from my ps4 really yeah
you're good so you're not gonna do the whole like you know resell your games
that you've already played you're a collector i'm a collector of digital
collector and you have no use for it as a blu-ray
player no everything's not digital now all
right so david's digital transformation is complete the key specs here are of
course that it's running a new zen 2 based soc with much much faster storage
not to mention a better more advanced storage architecture than any previous
console in sony's lineup and of course HDMI 2.1 connectivity which is where
oh yeah all those fancy logos in the corner that's right this thing can
output 4k 120 hertz HDR and even 8k
this is a terrible sleeve it just like came apart look hello
the audio immersion let's get this puppy open box
number three i just want to feel the controller that supposedly is so
advanced and game-changing that they couldn't allow like plebeian playstation
4 controllers to work in ps5 games of course the CPU and storage aren't the
only things that are new here the GPU is running the same rd and a2 architecture
that AMD announced with their rx 6000
series graphics cards what we're expecting from that is ray tracing
support although we don't really know anything about the
actual performance compared to NVIDIA's rtx series just yet as well as extremely
powerful just more traditional rasterized graphics performance
there's a stand
really chunky HDMI cable why is this cool no you know what would make me feel
2.1 and next gen like a super slim one
that's like no broader than the connector itself like sleek
i have to each throw power connector internal power supply
which is nice both of the new gen consoles have internal power supplies though sony had
already pulled that off at the playstation 4 of course and this is it hey it's heavy it's
surprisingly heavy we'd be remiss if we didn't pull out an xbox controller for
the comparison here now this has a couple of double a
batteries in it and you know what in fairness the weight's not different james pointed
out that i should clarify this is a series x controller and i was like oh
why do we have to clarify that and i was like oh yeah cause like they didn't
change it it's hard to tell i like the feel on the hand a lot better
than the ps4 controller like a lot
this is the first first party playstation controller that to me feels
like it's actually designed for human hands going back even to the playstation
one right right like how hard the lines were on that thing and ps2 was no better
it was it's like sony had this light bulb moment that went
oh the hand is curved
oh
i like it and then what are all the fancy features of the pad up here now
you can like rock it it's a touch pad you can yell at it it's the same as the
ps4 there's also a mic on there and then the big killer app here is of
course these triggers having haptic feedback built into them now so the idea
is like what if you're you're on the throttle you're ripping down the road or
whatever else it really feels like it's like weighted
controller just resistive triggers sorry that oh sorry that's what i meant by
isn't that isn't technically a resistive trigger haptic i'm not sure yeah so
whatever whatever the terminology is it's got the same kind of force feedback
that you might find in something like a driving wheel except that it's built
right into the triggers on your controller no complaints about the thumb
sticks i think thumbstick technology has pretty much reached
peak you know thumb waggle thing i mean everyone but nintendo can figure it out
at least well none but it's that's a fair
criticism okay the pro controller is fine you're right when i said they were
about the same kind of nailed it wait are you able to
see that scale i don't have my overhead yeah okay they are like basically the
same weight i intentionally sequestered myself i haven't looked at anyone else's
impressions of the playstation 5 controller yet so my surprise is
very real i think this might be the more comfortable of the two
d-pad sucks though but then this d-pad sucks too so like
all right let's have a look at the console and see if it is truly as big as
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did you come over here and open it and spoil it you dick you dick you looked at
you looked at my playstation before i got a chance to look at my playstation
first okay
i gotta give sony this their product photographers do a great
job from all the photography i got the
impression that these were a little bit
more rounded kind of like the the front here and a little less like
yeah i popped my collars because i'm like also i think they were going for like
alienware futuristic curve but it actually just ends up kind of
looking warped it just looks kind of defective to me
where are your hooks reveal your hooks to me
yes it's down and the hook that i thought was the hook is definitely the hook so you can see
there's these little dots these ones right here act as like the lock so
that's the one that you gotta bend back so this
there we go what do you think david it's worse
it's worse it's immediately worse i love
the two-sided cooling fan intake though
that's pretty sick am i harping on it too much no does it
really matter it's ugly everyone knows it's ugly yeah okay that's fair at least
it has usb type-c
apparently fast charging usb port on the front
two more usb 3s on the back hardline lan HDMI
that's freaking awesome look how accessible that is
blows me away that sony was the one
sony out of sony and microsoft sony was the one to go you know what
let's make the storage upgradeable on this thing via non-proprietary means so
sony if they're gonna go yeah it's just a computer why don't you just put
an m.2 in it i love this i am so stoked
it can accept a 110 millimeter m.2 i'll talk about why that's important in a
minute here but sony is able to go yeah it's expensive today and a year from now
two years from now remember it's been seven years since the last playstation
launch seven years from now you will literally be able to like buy one of
these gum sticks gumstick m.2s that's fast enough for the playstation 5 at
best buy chuck it in there it'll probably be like 40 bucks and you're off
to the races in the long term that's the right move so most m.2s are 80mm you can
see the the amount for that is right here
but if you step up to 110 millimeter you can get some that are higher performance
like for example Intel has octane based m.2s that are 110 millimeters
now optane doesn't have the sequential speeds that the playstation needs yet
but the latency is extremely fast so if we get a new generation of optane and a
gen 4 m.2 like 110 mil that would
probably be the cadillac of storage upgrades for the playstation 5. our
cadillac's even cool anymore doesn't matter you guys understood what i was
saying and you can also get 110 mils in
higher capacities because there's more room for nand flash chips on them
sometimes now the fact that the playstation 5 supports it means we're
going to see it i think because the thing is even though console
gamers tend to have this this negative stereotype of being you know poor gamers
among the pc master race well the people who take that stuff
seriously um they're not and i think we're gonna see people
spending you know literally double the price of this console on just massive
storage upgrades for it because unfortunately only about what is it like
675 gigs of the onboard storage
is user accessible for installing games i mean if you're playing call of duty
modern warfare or whatever you got red dead redemption 2 you got
cod you got like what like
three more games you're done
that's it now just like the xbox you can hook up usb based storage and copy your
games to and from it but it's you can do it on a pc too nobody likes
doing it you know you can have a steam
game somewhere else you can like back up your steam game somewhere else and then just like copy them over when you're
going to use them but it's it sucks it's not the best ps5 games only ps4 games oh they don't
even allow you to put ps5 games on it and copy the
i'm sure it'll come but not yet just just like m.2 upgrades
does that not look like a defect oh this is nice look at this they've got a
little playstation logo embossed here so that you know
which spot it's supposed to go on look at the texture on the inside of the painting though oh oh that's cute
it's got little uh x's those squares and circles you will not be able to see that
from there but it's adorable you'll have to take my word for
okay this was easy once i figured out how to do it
slot why why slot screws should not exist the year is
20 20. they are literally the worst why does it need a stand there's no
ventilation down here oh there's a little bit actually torx
no it should be phillips hello
oh there's a little uh cover there's a there's a cover nubbin
why can i not turn this again
i no longer care i'm sure other people will figure it out
that's not better i think i'd probably go naked i don't
think i'd put it on the stand man maybe we're thinking about this all wrong
david maybe sony is just big brain
way out ahead of us on this one because think about it think about the evolution
of the console's role in our lives like in our families it used to be a toy for
the kids then it turned into like something that
adults would own but they would hide away when company came over and now it's
something that you wear loud and proud like you know i'm a gamer you're wearing
like t-shirts that are like oh look at me are like i use keyboards and i think
that's cool you know like that kind of thing lttstore.com um so maybe this is
sony's way of saying loud and proud
it doesn't fit in your media console and damn it it's not supposed to it's
supposed to be on a pedestal next to your tv as a monument to what a gamer
you are nothing no applause that was my
okay he's starting now everybody there it goes yeah
of course this is a ShortCircuit so that's as far as we go today but make
sure you're subscribed to Linus tech tips because we will of course
be putting the playstation 5 through its
paces so knowing what you know about how the series x and series s compare to
each other in terms of performance this is what like 12 teraflops and the series
s is like four so like three times the teraflops
does it concern you at all that the playstation is 10. knowing that they are
in terms of the actual CPU and GPU
architecturally similar which is not the same as the entire
system architecture and the software do you think the gaming experience is going
to be noticeably different uh it'll be
ten percent sharper for multi-platform games on xbox but it always just comes
down to games right and there's i mean there is the fact that sony's offloaded what is it
audio and
that's a io oops and can you even lay it down flat like both xboxes are designed
so you can put them flat no you just with a stand
you can take the stand off and then put it on
i mean you can but like