This PS5 feature is causing controversy — and Xbox Series X is laughing

This PS5 feature is causing controversy — and Xbox Series Ten is laughing

(Prototype credit: Sony)

Gamers tin can be a fickle bunch, and so there are always more than a few detractors whenever a new piece of hardware is revealed. The launch of the PS5 and Xbox Series X is no exception.

Recently Sony released a teardown video revealing a ton of primal PS5 features, one of which was how the panel's stand. Evidently the stand is necessary to keep the console in the horizontal and vertical orientations, and in that location are some people that aren't happy about that.

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As y'all tin can meet in the video below, there'south a off-white flake of try needed to switch the PS5 between each orientation. The stand needs to unscrewed, and so the screwhole is plugged with a special slice of plastic, You then put the spiral inside the stand earlier closing it up and placing it forth the side of the panel prepare for laying it down horizontally.

Information technology'due south not the most exhausting chore in the world, but it seems similar a few too many steps just to change the PS5's orientation. And I doubtable more than a few people are going to lose those actress pieces at some signal.

Microsoft, never the 1 to pass an opportunity by, added its own sass into the mix in response.

How to switch the Xbox Serial X from vertical to horizontal ⤵️ movie.twitter.com/efnCoBPWTWOctober 7, 2020

Of class showcasing just how horrendous the Xbox Series X looks when it's lying downwards might non have been the best move. Keep that console vertical, kids, provided you accept infinite for that particular monster machine.

Yet, information technology is much easier just to flip the console ninety-degrees and put it down. Why Sony decided to indulge in this particular bit of over-engineering isn't clear, though given the number necessary steps, it does make it harder to put it downwards wrong and potentially damage the console in the procedure.

I'd never have idea it possible to exist bad at putting down a games panel, simply 2020 has surprises for us all.

At the end of the solar day you're not going to exist moving the panel very often, and then the actual procedure of changing orientation doesn't really matter. Information technology's simply weird that this is how the PS5 does it.

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