PS5 weight just leaked — and it's seriously heavy

PS5 weight simply leaked — and it's seriously heavy

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Sony'southward PS5 is going to exist one chunky console. The organisation is tipped to weigh 10.54 pounds, which is notably heavier than the 6.17-pound launch PS4 and chunkier than the already heavy original Xbox One, which weighed in at seven pounds.

These weights come from a listing on Amazon Deutschland for the PS5, as flagged by Reddit. And if the figures are right, the PS5 volition not only sport a divisive design only also crave a pretty solid surface or entertainment unit to be sat upon.

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Rather oddly, the list gives the same weight for both the standard PS5 and the Digital Edition, the latter of which would exist expected to be lighter as it won't have a disk drive. That would indicate that we should have this weight leak with a expert dollop of scepticism.

That being said, previous rumors have indicated that the PS5 will exist a large and chunky panel. In fact, the only mod console that's heavier than it, according to these figures, is the original PS3, which weighed a hefty 11 pounds. The PS3 was such a chunky machine that Sony and so released slimmed-down versions of it; information technology also did the same for the PS4, which weighed a rather trim 6.17 pounds at launch. So some 12 months or so after the PS5 launches, Sony could gauge reaction to its design so release a slimmer version of the console.

However, it's not hugely surprising that the PS5 will be a big games console. It'due south going to come up with plenty of advanced features, including support for ray-tracing, 3D Audio, very fast SSD storage for the rapid loading of games, and a serious hike in overall performance compared to its predecessor.

All that power means it will need to keep its silicon parts cool to forestall them from effectively melting downwards, and such cooling can accept up a good flake of space and weigh a fair bit. Later all, you don't run into many lightweight gaming PCs.

What will exist interesting is to see how the PS5 measures up to the Xbox Series 10 in terms of weight. The rectangular monolithic design of Microsoft's adjacent-generation console looks a picayune more compact than the PS5, but it'southward difficult to tell in photos. We'll have to wait until the end of the year, when the new consoles launch, to find out more.

Roland Moore-Colyer is U.K. Editor at Tom'south Guide with a focus on news, features and opinion articles. He often writes most gaming, phones, laptops and other $.25 of hardware; he's besides got an interest in cars. When non at his desk-bound Roland can be constitute wandering around London, oftentimes with a look of marvel on his face.