PS5 Roughly 3″ Taller Than PS4 Pro (Multi-Angle Comparisons)

PlayStationing writes - Using the PS4 controller buttons as a reference point we have managed to scale the PS5 renders to show how the two consoles look in comparison to each other.

[gaffyh]

I know a size comparison has been done. But these feature different angles i think people may be interested to see.

[darthv72]

It has to be due to the cooling. Id love to see the teardown after released.

[Profchaos]

I'd agree I'm ok with a larger console if it means my family can sleep in peace without my playing modern warfare or gow at night waking the house up.

Mark's admission that cooking and noise has been poor in the pro really does indicate that they are taking it seriously and custom cooking should help address the noise levels

[jukins]

Might get a teardown before that. I remember cerny teasing a cooling solution that they would show on their teardown this was shortly after the 1st gdc reveal. Dont know if things have changed but id assume (more like hope) we'll be getting an explanation and teardown of the ps5 design

[bouzebbal]

the PS4 on the thumbnail really doesn't do it justice.
looks like PS5 is as long as OG PS3, still my favorite console design to date.

[DJStotty]

@Profchaos

You can cook on the Pro?

[OB1Biker]

Yes nice. It isn't as massive as we thought. It's big but mainly tall or wide whereas the PS4 was longer (from the front).

[Bathyj]

Who wouldn't like another 3 inches?

[Storm23]

Then I would finally be about average...

[The Wood]

Lol. . . Good sport

@Bathy. . . . Facts

[Bathyj]

Thanks for playing along at home

[S2Killinit]

Lol you guys are great

[Bathyj]

This place needs a bit of levity.

[medman]

Another 3 would put me at 17.

We're talkin millimeters, right?

[Bathyj]

No we're talking inches but I'm also talking girth

[rainslacker]

My wife tells me it doesn't matter with a disappointed look on her face every time.

[Bathyj]

You're lucky. I've never found a woman that has what I'm looking for, that being low standards.

[rainslacker]

Maybe you're looking for love in all the wrong places. Have you tried the back streets of the local trailer parks? Maybe Wal-Mart after 2am?

[Fantangoooo]

If it’s girth you are talking about XSX seems like one that would make em sing in all sorts of pitches ... lol

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Interesting.. my hand makes the same disappointing face as well

[GamerRN]

Follow up with "well maybe if you're pussy wasn't so big..."

[rainslacker]

@Yui

But does it give you taco flavored kisses?

@Fantangoo

Yeah, but trying to put a square peg in a round hole? That sounds like something you see by accident when doing "research" to try and spice up one's love life.

[Fist4achin]

Heyooooo!

[AmUnRa]

It toke a few second but...😂

[chiefJohn117]

It's a lot bigger than I initially thought. It's around 33% taller than XSX

[timotim]

About 6" taller than SX, and about 2-4" deeper. Its the largest console ever made.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media...

[TeamIcoFan]

I'm surprised it's bigger than a PS3 OG, I remember that thing being a chonk.

[Babadook7]

“About 6" taller than SX”

Nope.

There’s a lot of bs going around. Your link is part of that. Why is the xsx shorter than ps4 pro? Ps4 pro is 11.6” vs XSX 11.85”

XSX vs PS5.
11.85 vs 14.5.

Only 2.65” taller.

XSX is the largest console still, by volume.

[chiefJohn117]

Babdook PS4 pro is 12.9"
XSX is near identical in height to OneX which we know is shorter than PS4 pro

[Babadook7]

@above.

You are confusing length with width.

https://www.playstation.com...

Ps3 fat was 11.42. Also not proportionate.

More accurate

https://www.google.ca/amp/s...

[omegaheat]

Your measurement in comparison is a bit exaggerated. I think the Xbox Series X stands 11.85 inches tall. That makes the PS5 roughly 3 inches taller. I think what we'll see after these consoles launch is a mucher smaller console design in favor of the Xbox Series X. It also proves the brilliant engineering that went into designing the Xbox Series X. If you lay the Xbox horizontally it's only 6.3 inches deep. I'm getting vibes of double standard across the gaming community. I remember how some people chimed that it would be difficult to fit the Xbox Series X in to an entertainment cabinet. Now here we are with a PS5 that's almost as thick as a vanilla Xbox One and tall as a Space X shuttle. It really does look spacey, but it's growing on me day by day. I don't mind the polarizing design, but it will never look inconspicuous in the living room - especially at its size.

[Atticus_finch]

Ps5 is a beast.

[timotim]

That depends. We wont really know until we see what the competition can do. Its a next-gen console yes, but being the largest console created by far, yet weaker than SX wont look good if that holds true...

[IRetrouk]

Not really, the gpu runs at a higher clock, much higher than anything before it in consoles, that creates more heat and the need for more room to cool all the components, the ssd would also heat up more due to the higher speeds too🤷‍♂️ makes sense when you think about it.

[timotim]

Again, if true, that would be higher clocks and faster SSD for the weaker system...design is all about choice...Cerny chose that for you...you'd have to live with those choices regardless.

[IRetrouk]

Being weaker has nothing to do with the design of the box, it's about heat not power....
Again very easy to understand....
Cerny designed a great system with some really good looking games shown, I like the choices cerny made🤷‍♂️

[Rhythmattic]

Oh tim..tim...tim..tim..........
"yet weaker than SX wont look good if that holds true..."
Holds True? True to what?
Your statement is the classic example of FUD.
To add.. Do i know? NO.

[DarXyde]

timotim,

So... depending on what the competition can do will determine whether or not PS5 is a beast? I shouldn't entertain such stupid logic (or weak trolling), but I'm too fascinated to ignore this logical trainwreck.

So now that we know what PS5 can do, Xbox One X's beast status has been cancelled.

While we're at it, why not cancel PS5 and Series X's beast status once we see what Ampere can do?

Oh, but then there are the rumors of Big Navi outperforming Ampere. I guess Nvidia might get its beast card revoked on arrival.

But really... what about the supercomputers of today? Nothing can beat what's in hi-powered controlled lab settings. Great! No beasts anywhere to be found in anyone's home! That's good because monsters are totally scary.

You guys are the worst kind of trolls sometimes.

[Babadook7]

"but being the largest console created by far, yet weaker than SX wont look good if that holds true..."

@timotim

XSX is the more powerful by a mere 18% (not counting specialty chips).

PS5 is the faster console by a whopping 130%.

Overall PS5 looks to be the better hardware.

And like I pointed out, by volume the XSX is still the bigger machine. So being bigger and less capable won't look good.

[gigzamillion]

Good things come in small packages, GREAT things come in big packages.

[mastershredder]

These must be concerns for size queen gamers that display their console like a trophy.

[rainslacker]

Sega has a console for them. It's called the Game Gear mini.

[Tacoboto]

IGN has a good comparison up with this, PS4 Pro, One X and Series X.

This gen will be the gen of beasts

[Babadook7]

That one has been shown to be inaccurate. Like most stuff from IGNorance

[Italiano1234567]

Cool mines going on its side anyway

[sinspirit]

I'm curious what the slim versions will look like down the line. The XBox becomes a smaller rectangular box or will it cut in half and be a cube? I personally wanted PS5 to be a GameCube shape when we still hadn't seen how it looked

[porkChop]

I think a cube is the perfect shape for a console. You can get the benefits of vertical cooling without being too tall, and you have plenty of space to place components optimally.

A GameCube style console with a 200mm fan on top and bottom would provide incredible cooling, while being whisper quiet.

[sinspirit]

I also thought about in terms of mid-gen upgrade, that if it were a cube shape, it could have expansion ports on the bottom just like the GameCube, and a mid-gen upgrade would be stacking it on top rather than a whole console replacement. This gens gonna be a blast though

[waverider]

I never put a console UP, but a i think maybe the ps5 will be the first one. I think its really cool and the number five.

[Gaming4Life1981]

The system is big but why do people care so much if it runs good, keeps cool, and is silent for the most part.

[mcstorm]

People pick at all sorts. I remember people going on about how big the original xbox one was. Yet it was very quiet compared to the ps4. It will be interesting to see the difference in noise between the two consoles though. For me I perfer the Xbox SX look but never bought a console because of how it looked. It's all about the games and personally for me both Sony and Microsoft need to step it up this gen for me to jump back onto consoles last gen was poor. (ps4/xbox one)

[NeoGamer232]

Ya, the first version in new console gens are usually larger.

There is nothing wrong with that. That is pretty standard.

[RookieMonsterLives]

Space could potentially be an issue due to the PS5 size. Due to not having a disc on the All digital version of the PS5, PS4 gamers with many disc games going for that sku will still need their PS4 (due to BC incompatibility) on the same self/entertainment center. Size could be an issue.

[ziggurcat]

That's moot. People using physical discs won't get the digital edition...

[The_Sage]

Who really gives a f--- ?

[SyntheticForm]

I do.

I'm "concerned."

[CaptainOmega]

Lets hope the system is quiet this time around.

[Kumakai]

They can no longer joke about the size of the series x..... this thing is comically huge if that’s accurate.

[rainslacker]

True, but we can still mock the shape.:)

[rainslacker]

Eh, people will do what they want to do. If it makes them feel better about themselves, then have at it. Doesn't mean anyone that isn't taking them seriously will start taking them seriously.

[ziggurcat]

No one joked about the size to begin with, they ragged on the design itself.

[rlow1]

Alot of people on this site were critical of the Xbox1 size when it came out. How times or should I say brands have swapped roles.

[BrettAwesome]

Except the PS5 still fits under a TV 😅

[RazzerRedux]

Why do people keep saying it was about size? No, it was about the shape. Why do you think the pictures of fridges were used?

[ziggurcat]

edit: Scratch that - I read SX instead of X1 in this case!

[Ausbo]

It’s weird that it’s bigger than the series X given the power difference, but if it’s more quiet than my pro, It’s not a big deal

[RookieMonsterLives]

My PS4 Pro is bigger than my Xbox One X as well so I bigger size does not equal more power.

[gigzamillion]

The minimal power difference has no real bearing on overall case size.

[RazzerRedux]

Cerny did say they were putting a lot of work into their cool solution. Running at the 2.23 GHz is going to generate some heat.

[darthv72]

not weird at all if you think about it. The SX is not as tall but it is wider because they stacked everything together to fit under one huge fan. The 5 is more likely elongated because they spread out the components and used heat pipes to funnel away the heat to the areas where the fan is situated (most likey the top where the fins are).

[Babadook7]

Given the difference in capability I would have expect the xsx to be the smaller. But it’s absolutely massive in terms of volume. Bigger than even the ps5.

[AK91]

More interested to see how it sounds as opposed to how it looks.

[kryteris]

less wide more long maybe. idk.

[spambot0815]

still fits the shelf minus the vr processor box but i hope you don't need something like this anymore for next gen vr.

[digger18]

Who bloody cares what it looks like. I wouldn’t care if it looked like an old wooden shack if it was powerful.

[iplay1up2]

I like the Series X design better! PS5 looks like they put a console in a Trapper Keeper.(oldschool folder)

[CRASHBASHUK]

i rely hope its not 3 inches taller as some gamers have IKEA kallax square unit the ps4 fits perfect
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/...

[XBManiac]

What's clear is that it will be difficult to obstruct vent conducts on PS5 and... lucky us, we will be able to pile up.

[DafunkyRebel]

Damn that’s a big boi

[DafunkyRebel]

Judging by the size it’s about as big as a PC

[RazzerRedux]

Not really. A compact ATX case is about an inch taller than this and 10 inches more in depth:

https://www.newegg.com/blac...