Sony has just revealed a redesigned PS5 model that will be replacing the launch version later this year. The new PS5 is 30 percent slimmer and built with a modular design, so you can remove the disc drive to replace it when it fails, or purchase it separately if you have the digital edition. Other than that additio𒈔n and a slightly-upgraded 1TB SSD, the new PS5 has the same hardware and look as the original. Oh, and you have to bu൩y the vertical stand separately. Of course you have to buy the stand separately.
It may seem like a small nitpick, but selling something as trivial as a vertical stand is such a quintessentially Sony move, I almost can♏’t believe it. The new PS5 will include what appears to be a little plastic foot to prop it up when it’s sitting hor🗹izontally, with most of its weight resting on the disk drive. But if you want to stand it up, you’re going to have to buy a $30 metal ring to stand it on.
Gamers Are Already Brutally Roasting The PS5 Sli🌄m
The recently announced PS5 Slim is already coming under fire🍨 from every angle, as fans mock its design, price, and separate stand.
I’ve been pretty unimpressed with the way Sony has nickel-and-dimed customers throughout the PS5 generation. Between raking in millions of dollars by overcharging uninformed 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PS5 players for Horizon Forbidden Wes𒉰t, the last-minute introduction of a voucher program to punish people hoarding gift cards🐭 during the PlayStation Plus relaunch, and the decision to remove Marvel&r🍒squo;s Spider-Man from PlayStation Pl𝔍us right before the sequel, Sony has spent the last two years doing everything it can to squeeze profit𓃲s out of its fans. Charging $30 for some🌠thing so trivial can’t go unnoticed when the company continually demonstrates its hostility towards players.
I don’t know why you need a special piece of equipment to make the new PlayStation stand up. The original PS5 has a circular piece of plastic that worked in both configurations, and while I suspect that took some amount of engineering to make work, I have a hard time believing it couldn’t have done something similar for the new PS5. the fact that you even need a stand alreaꦰdy rubs me the wrong way. People joke about the Xbox looking like a fridge, but at least I don’t have to carefully balance it on a frame to keep it from falling over. Has Mark Cerny been hanging out with Tim Cook and the Apple crew? I thought over-designed products that require expensive, proprietary accessories was their thing.
This is the epitome of designing a problem and selling the solution. There’s no reason the PS5 needs to be so narrow and top heavy that it falls over without a base, it was designed that way. Th🐬ere’s no reason Sony couldn’t include a simple plastic base in the box that allows you to stand it up vertically, it intentionally designed one that costs $30. There’s no reason to frame this as a necessary evil, it’s just the regular kind.
Somebody on Etsy will inevitably design a 3D printable solution that costs way less than $30, if it hasn’t hap𝓡pened already. I highly encourage anyone buying the new PS5 to look for alternative🌸s. They may not be as aesthetic as Sony’s OEM metal ring stand, but we can’t just accept mandatory upsales like this. It’s not an add-on if it’s required to do something essential, like keeping the console from falling over. Don’t buy this thing. If we don’t draw the line somewhere Sony’s going to think it can sell the PS6 without a controller or power cables too.