PS5’s Insane XL Size Is Concerning for Good Reason

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I’m a Sony Playstation fanboy, but jeez—did the PS5’s design need to have gargantuan specs?

I try to keep my gaming as low-key and out of the way as possible, but the PS5 dwarfs the PS4. So that means there is no way to keep the next-generation system on the down low. It’s in your face. My face, my wife’s face, my neighbor’s face. Nothing anyone can do about, the thing is that big.

Where am I going to put the PS5? There’s no way it’s taking the same spot as the PS4. Suppose it could sit on the ground and suck up all the tasty, never-ending dust bunnies. Yeah, no thank you. Let’s say it can somehow live in the same spot as the PS4. The floppy wings on the PS5 don’t seem very accommodating when it comes to laying the thing down on its side like it would be forced to do.

These are wild times. Console players have never had to worry about system size before. So, here we are. Yikes.

Anyway, here’s the PS5 trailer featuring Travis Scott: