Road to NextGen 2020

PS5 laid bare at last, pleasant surprises underneath

Sony takes the new PlayStation apart in an official video just over a month before its release

A detailed tour around the innards of the PS5 probably deserved something more dramatic PR-wise but hey. It’s still 2020, COVID-19 is still a threat so an official video will do. (Image credit: Sony)

Less than five weeks before the PlayStation5 finds its way into living rooms all around the world — but before tech reporters actually get a chance to take a detailed look at its hardware — Sony decided to publish a complete teardown video on the official PlayStation YouTube channel. Yasuhiro Ootori, head of Sony’s mechanical design for the PS5, does the teardown himself in Japanese (English captions are also available), taking the system apart bit by bit until all of its components are on the table, revealing some important information about the product in the process.

Removing the two side panels of the PS5 is very easy once its base is detached (Image credit: Sony)

First of all: yes, the rumors were true. The white panels of the PS5 can be easily removed and replaced with different ones, so we now fully expect Sony to make other colors or special designs for those panels available separately (either at launch or later on). Would it be too much to ask for 3D printer files so we could maybe make our own? Well, if Sony does not think it’s a good…