PS5 Slim First Look and TEARDOWN!!

[James]

Thanks dbrand for sending over the PS5 Slim for this video. Get notified for their upcoming Darkplates 4.0 at https://dbrand.com/ps5-slim

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Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.

 

Sony doesn’t call it the PS5 Slim, but this smaller console is arriving just in time for the holidays and we’re here to tear it down and see what’s inside!

 

 

 

[Failure 101]

9 minutes ago, James said:

Thanks dbrand for sending over the PS5 Slim for this video. Get notified for their upcoming Darkplates 4.0 at https://dbrand.com/ps5-slim

Buy a Sony PlayStation 5: https://geni.us/bgq2iX

Buy a Sony DualSense Controller: https://geni.us/rKZjAcv

Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.

 

Sony doesn’t call it the PS5 Slim, but this smaller console is arriving just in time for the holidays and we’re here to tear it down and see what’s inside!

 

 

 

Isn't midnight over there did you guys have to stay up for this?

[Failure 101]

SS of the game code whoever wants it

[ahuckphin]

Linus' kitchen makes a good film set... wonder if dbrand asked for it in their sponsorship. 

[JoppiesausJupp]

At 8:40 Linus mentions that the online pairing of the disk drive to the console "is not something that Sony does by choice", but does not elaborate on it - what is the reason for the pairing requirement?

[Arika]

still looks dumb as hell...

[Mikro 7]

14:50 Why are you measuring power consumption with a OSC (MXO44-245 ??) I suggest using NGP800.

Before you disable it would be interesting to Heat camera pictures. No documentation is attached on how the measurement was done NO TEST REPORT!

[deficitdisorder]

52 minutes ago, JoppiesausJupp said:

At 8:40 Linus mentions that the online pairing of the disk drive to the console "is not something that Sony does by choice", but does not elaborate on it - what is the reason for the pairing requirement?

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/10/ps5-slims-new-external-disc-drive-requires-online-pairing-before-use/

 

Currently speculation suggests it may be a DMCA requirement from the SONY parent media company and not necessary something the playstation team wanted.

[nifnat]

I don't think DMCA comes into why the disk drives have to be paired at all. At least from what I'm reading on that Ars Technica article, that only seems to apply to a third party (e.g you) if you were to run modified software to pair a different disk drive control board to your console. This was done back on the older models of PS3s if you had to replace the disk drive and control board.

From what I know PS3 slims/superslims, later model PS4s and PS4 slims/pros all had the control board for the disk drive on the mainboard so you could swap out the entire drive assembly (I've done this on a PS3 slim and PS4 Pro). My guess is they've kept the disk drive roughly the same as the PS5 one where the control board is not on the mainboard so when you're adding this disk drive on you're swapping the control board which then needs paired to the mainboard.

As to why Sony has done this, who knows? They've had drives in the past where you could swap them out yourself with no pairing process so it's something that can be done. My guess would be either keeping the drives consistent with how the base PS5 ones work or some sort of security concern.

[atxcyclist]

A few minutes into the video and there’s a weird blurry spot on the screen in one camera angle, but it’s just appearing occasionally.

[Lucas - Labs]

On 11/5/2023 at 4:03 AM, Mikro 7 said:

14:50 Why are you measuring power consumption with a OSC (MXO44-245 ??) I suggest using NGP800.

...

No documentation is attached on how the measurement was done NO TEST REPORT!

Thank you for your interest in our testing setup, we don't have full methodologies and reports for this informal power testing but we will have more information available when we publish full results for other products.  While the MXO44 is capable of measuring the power draw with the appropriate probes, we used the Chroma 66205 Digital Power Meter for our power measurements.

 

As a bonus I will include an adhoc "power draw over time" graph of the PS5 'slim'.  The results of the regular/previous PS5 are nearly identical.

[MarkPol88]

On 11/6/2023 at 9:02 PM, atxcyclist said:

A few minutes into the video and there’s a weird blurry spot on the screen in one camera angle, but it’s just appearing occasionally.

LTT editors usually blur something which should stay private - maybe it is the case here?

[vdelacroix]

On 11/5/2023 at 12:01 AM, James said:

Thanks dbrand for sending over the PS5 Slim for this video. Get notified for their upcoming Darkplates 4.0 at https://dbrand.com/ps5-slim

Buy a Sony PlayStation 5: https://geni.us/bgq2iX

Buy a Sony DualSense Controller: https://geni.us/rKZjAcv

Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.

 

Sony doesn’t call it the PS5 Slim, but this smaller console is arriving just in time for the holidays and we’re here to tear it down and see what’s inside!

 

 

 

Small note, @ 18:47 in the video. the PS3 had it's first node shrink from 90nm to 65nm during the FAT model's life cycle, so the process change had already happened before the slim was even released and the 65nm to 40nm shrink happened within the slim's cycle and the PS2 had multiple node shrinks in it's FAT model phase, well before the PS2 slim, as well.

 

So, no, a node shrink never "Historically" happened in the transition from Fat->Slim or Slim->Super Slim.

Not too sure about the PS4 since not a lot is out there for the different hardware revisions (the were at least 3 different revisions to the FAT PS4, 11 for the slim and 6 for the Pro).