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Watch Our Exclusive Teardown of the PlayStation 4

You can’t have a PlayStation 4 until the middle of November. But you can take a peek inside.

In the video above, Sony engineering director Yasuhiro Ootori tears down the PS4, Sony’s effort to reclaim its spot at the top of the home gaming world. In the world of consumer computing — and game consoles in particular — the teardown is a coming-out party of sorts, and this needed the full treatment, including two cameras and an interpreter to translate Ootori’s commentary into English.

Xwow20083823d ago (Edited 3823d ago )

Finally we gonna see what is inside this beast of a machine :)

Edit: just finished watching the video...An engineering masterpiece.

Stsonic3823d ago (Edited 3823d ago )

I can't think of many companies that would show you how to open their hardware let alone before launch. This is one reason I love Sony they make it very easy to open their equipment.

@Eonjay I only see one fan? he states it is 85mm which is small for a fan. The smaller the fan the more noise (usually) BUT with the processor only clocked at 1.6ghz paired with efficient voltage control I am sure the thing is near silent.

Eonjay3823d ago

Love the 16 modules of 512MB GDDR5 memory. This machine was amazingly designed.

Also, looking at the size of those fans, and heat-sinks... I think its safe to say that this thing won't be overheating on anyone.

Thevariance3823d ago

After seeing the space that the power supply occupies, I can't help but wonder what is in the XBOX that makes it that large.

mewhy323823d ago

Wow. what an ingenious design. Simple, powerful, no powerbrick. Awesome.

johndoe112113823d ago

@Thevariance

Not only that, what completely baffles me after watching this video is how the heck is sony able to fit all that tech in such a small case and be 30% smaller, 50% more powerful and $100 cheaper than the xbox one????

What the heck does sony know that microsoft doesn't?

Moz3823d ago

It's quite a deep fan so should be ok. They've also got things in the right order blowing the air through the main heat sink and then the power supply.

The only concern re the over heating that has been hinted at is that spec sheet shows an operating temp of 5 - 35 degree (for anyone who still confused by this that's the range of room temps it can operate in not the CPU temp) which seems a little low, so you definitely don't want to have this in a confined space. And summer time in countries with a warm climate could be interesting. But in most situations it should be fine.

pyramidshead3823d ago

if there's one area where Sony knows their sh!t, it's console hardware design.

Looks like the PS4 is no exception.

Can't wait to see later iterations of it. The slim versions will be interesting to see :P

ZodTheRipper3823d ago

^No surprise after 4 console generations and hundreds of different models and prototypes :D

It's really a technical masterpiece and everyone responsible for it can be proud of that.

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Guwapo773823d ago

I agree. One hell of a machine.

Now what I need are reviews of various HDD/SDDs to see if there any difference in load speeds. I want to upgrade my computer SDD to the Samsung EVO drives and drop a Pro in the PS4. If it's worth it ofcourse. 20-30% load increases are worth it imo.

phoenix_dusk3823d ago (Edited 3823d ago )

Does this post needs an NSFW warning? :P

majiebeast3823d ago (Edited 3823d ago )

Yeah its console porn.

obliteratorx13823d ago (Edited 3823d ago )

Amazing design. Awesome. This is how you design a beast of a console. Hats off to Sony.

quarkist3823d ago

Oh boy, it is lovely to watch all the real hardware inside :-). I like the fact that the power supply is built in, and elegant cooling system. Five stars!

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mkis0073h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows903h ago(Edited 3h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis0071h ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel19891h ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw3h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno2h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy852h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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