the sony ps5 playstation is here is this the best weapon for gamers

 

< it's finally here this is the playstation 5 the ps5 it's been a long time coming i talked about this thing so much and then sony finally got one here uh i'm excited to say the least look at the spaceship alien design it says 8k up there it says 4k 120 up there it says hdr up there i mean if you're into gaming and you're not excited right now well you're gonna have to wait i don't know four years or something for the next generation so now is the time to get excited and we look around the box i see what it says on the back lightning speed harness the power of a custom cpu and ssd with integrated io that rewrite the rules of what a PlayStation

 console can do sounds very exciting breathtaking immersion you see their new controller over here play like never before one thing i like they said 825 gb up top as far as the storage is concerned so this is the full scale this is the disk drive this is the blu-ray capable version you see the disk drive right there but you got to remember there is a digital only as well available in in what seems to be limited quantities uh however this is the premium model that does it all over here on the side contents include playstation 5 console wireless controller base hdmi cable in the box you've got to appreciate it is a special hdmi cable to support that 4k 120 as well ac power cord usb cable and your printed materials also astros play room which is kind of like a pre-installed demo showcases some of the features of the system all right i believe

 i have a sticker to cut do i have a knife anywhere nearby kirk is looking around frantically he's pacing and yes we do in fact we have the official unbox therapy unboxing knife available on amazon all right bang now this is a big box this is a big console i have a playstation 4 pro actually over here to compare it to so we can get a sense for scale but it's big for all the right reasons because we have a very smart fan on the inside which is actually capable of making adjustments to align with whatever game that you're playing it's a i mean there's all kinds of intelligent stuff happening in here so that's what you get in exchange for scale now you can stand this thing up you can lay it down flat i'm sure at this point you've seen the tear down video all right so i think they expect you to have this tipped up but i'm just gonna keep it i'm gonna

actually put it back down because i don't mind if these things fall out i need them anyways first is the paperwork then we have our pretty standard two-prong power cable i don't think there's any kind of need for an external power brick on this one this is the controller my first time hands-on with the official playstation 5 controller would you look at that now i got to say straight away i appreciate this white color i know you think this is bizarre you say lou that's just well that's just the color white but it's not it has a little grayishness to it it's kind of like a dirty white and i like that i had a card that was almost exactly this color at one point and you want to get crazy with the attention to detail and i don't know if mo can show\

 you this or not but if we get in there if we can get tight enough then what you will see on the grips is the actual uh x o triangle and y square why do i see a y there it's a it's an x that doesn't show up as well anyways that's a that's a nice little attention to detail they worked a lot on this controller so uh you have this haptic this sort of wild haptic feedback with a an increased dimension to it the speaker unit is still there your touch pad is still there the shape of it is a little different very comfortable though that's the old controller ps4 so it got bigger controller got a little bit bigger and it sort of uh looks more futuristic i guess that's up to you to decide to me it's more futuristic trigger buttons one thing that's going to take a second to get used to is not having the color coded square triangle x circle buttons over here that's going to take a 

ittle bit to get used to i think these have some sort of a backlight on them of course you have your connection point down on the bottom as well for your headset it looks like there's a dedicated mute button over there as well it's a usb type-c finally my goodness gracious i was so done with the micro stuff on the current generation consoles with the flimsy cables and the flimsy connection and you would never want to use it wired 

because the thing was always i mean i don't need to tell you we're done with micro usb and it's i'm glad to see that's the case here at the playstation 5 and the next gen consoles in general so that's the controller i'll put it down for a moment let's get to the main attraction here oh not quite main attraction level yet

 first we have a couple more components to look at so over here is our hdmi cable and as mentioned got to be a high speed hdmi cable to support all that throughput for 4k 120 or 8k as they say i mean 8k who's got an 8k tv right now not many people and if you did you probably want a high frame rate anyways 4k is kind of a must for next-gen i think a lot of people going to be in the market for a new tv these consoles help to push forward those new tv sales anyway this is the cable you're going to need then we have the stand now the stand is quite interesting the way they did it it will allow you to stand up obviously your playstation 5 

to save a little bit of space even though i think the thing's going to be a little bit tall based on what i've seen to this point uh this can also be used to change the orientation so you could have it laying down as well so a couple different options for you there now i saw the tear down video and they were able to store the components in here and it's just beautifully engineered and designed go watch the teardown in which the actual designer or engineer of the product explains the thinking behind it it's a a very therapeutic

experience not unlike unboxed therapy i mean you guys got a table i found it very inspiring in fact anyways here is the console it's time for next generation gaming [Music] man i covered it so much on lou later i talked about all the developments and leaks and we talked about games and we talked about exclusives and we talked about everything but now we have the console and it's hidden below this uh little uh this tiny little sheet here we're moments away we're seconds away i feel like i'm doing a presentation i mean people have seen what it looks like it's not but it is this is a special unbox therapy presentation here we go all right 

that ladies and gentlemen is the playstation 5. it's tall that is a statement nobody that comes over to your house is going to miss the fact that you have the latest game console that is for certain once again this might be my favorite white i have ever seen this is like a it has a subtle gray tone to it a subtle kind of almost like as if you were doing a mock-up well mo you just saw i got a car in almost the 

exact same color with black and white storm trooper vibes now when you do a white color i have one pet peeve that happens sometimes if it ever ventures into the yellowish tone that ain't my that ain't my ideal white color when it goes into the cooler tones and almost has like a bluish undertone or a grayish undertone then i like it so anyways that's just my opinion on the color all right let's look around the outside of the device over here you see two usb type a ports on the back of the unit we have a dedicated lan port this is that ever important hdmi port for that 4k 120 and this is where your power cable connects so the power brick obviously integrated into the design of the unit you're just going to need one simple cable and the console

 itself we have the playstation logo up in the top left corner there and then the front of the device is going to bring one more usb type a port a little lightning bolt to indicate you can charge from it you also have of course a usb type c port that's uh some faster throughput i believe and then we have a couple of buttons down below for eject and power and then the disk drive capable of bluetooth if this were the digital only version then this wouldn't be there and you would actually have a completely symmetrical design down the front now the other thing that i learned from the tear down video storage on here expandable through an internal slot for a larger ssd all right so this is what it looks like standing up now if i did put it on the stand it would do what it would go how is this do i have to read the the thing for that this looks like it's too far up is it supposed to click oh by the way this is huge but it might not be as heavy as you 

expect i'm just gonna put that out there right now look at the one-handed grip on there uh oh here we go oh interesting horizontal position vertical position make sure the hook is in the position illustrated the hook so this one slides around to there and then this springy section goes down and then we place the playstation like this and then that look at the way the hooks look at the engineering the hooks bite into the playstation itself oh okay so this is what's cool about this if you see how i spun it around it exposed the little screw this

 is the little screw from the tear down video magic they designed it into the base now if i was going to mount it permanently in the vertical position this would poke up through here and then i would remove this little nub on the bottom and screw into there with this flat head and then it would be sort of permanently in the vertical position i'm not going to do that right now because i also want to show you sort of how the horizontal position works but anyway just to give you a better look this is what the vertical positioning looks like so whether or not this saves space for you or maybe it's harder to have it in this position at least you have the option of more than one now in the horizontal setup you actually have the hook over there and then i have the playstation like this and i hook this guy like this and then those little nubs come into play and of course this is because you have the curved side to it right so it's not going to sit flat very

 easily and so you have it like that and you got a nice little flat setup to it now the other benefit having the stand it just creates a little bit of space so when it comes to cooling which was such a big part of the design of this particular device you're just uh you got a little bit more space around the unit to dissipate heat so there may be some function within the form a lot of people having questions around why they go for this shape but maybe there's more to the story when it comes to cooling and so forth so anyway that's the lay down version it obviously looks cooler in the upright stance but it's cool that it can do both people want to know that it can do both i just realized on the inside of this panel over here we have the same pattern following through from the grip portion of the controller where you can see the squares individual little squares triangles x's and circles just it's just a nice little touch for those that are looking it's a nice little 

attention to detail all right so let's do a quick comparison i told you i have a ps4 pro over here now this is a big playstation 4 because it is the pro model this was 4k capable as well as your as you're aware but still the new playstation sort of dwarfs it now maybe it's not quite as deep as this model right here yeah the ps4 pro is a little bit deeper but otherwise thickness and height goes to the playstation 5 quite easily so if you were curious about scale that's a quick comparison for you versus the previous generation it's a total departure style wise they have been fairly boxy i guess on the recent models the original playstation 3 had curves to it this is a different approach it's less of a hump i mean this is kind of your alien your futuristic alien object it's almost like a statue or a sculpting it's unique in its shape it's not the obvious approach it's definitely not

 the most minimal approach this there's some imagination in here some are going to appreciate that more than others some are going to say i wish i just had a box well that's not what this is and i personally i have appreciation for both the minimal and the obvious but i've also got appreciation for the ambitious and the imaginative and that's sort of where this one lands for me is in that area they definitely did not play it safe with this alien life form you