We’re still a bit over a month away from the official launch of the PlayStation 5, but we’ve already got the first public teardown of the console hardware courtesy of Sony itself. The Japanese video (with English subtitles) Sony posted Wednesday morning answers quite a few nagging questions left from previous announcements and recent hands-on time from some Japanese press. Chief among them is a demonstration of how the system’s circular black stand works. When the PS5 is placed vertically, the stand is held in place with a single large screw. When that screw is removed, it can be stored in a compartment in the base, and a small cap fills in the screw hole in the system itself. Further ReadingSony finally reveals PlayStation 5 hardware—and a discless “Digital Edition”PS5 owners will use the same base when placing the PS5 horizontally, seemingly to give a flat surface for the system’s gentle curves to rest on. In this configuration, though, the base simply snaps into place along a set of marks on one of those white panels, no screw required. Speaking of those white panels, the teardown video shows that they can be popped off easily without tools. Just “lift the… Read full this story
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