Sony has wholly revamped the interior plan of its latest PS5 models. A revised PS5 exemplary started appearing successful Australia past month, and present YouTuber Austin Evans has taken a look astatine the internals and discovered a batch of changes. Sony is utilizing a new, smaller motherboard for the PS5, antithetic cooling, and has adjacent changed the SSD enclosure.

All of these changes adhd up to different value reduction, but nary evident changes to the exterior of the PS5. The existent large alteration is the updated motherboard successful the PS5. It has shrunk by astir 2 inches, and the cooling for the PS5 is somewhat antithetic acknowledgment to an further vigor tube astatine the rear and a smaller heatsink.

This isn’t the archetypal clip we’ve seen a redesigned cooling solution connected the PS5. Sony shipped a revised exemplary past twelvemonth with a smaller heatsink. The caller motherboard and heatsink connected this 2022 PS5 present weighs astir 2.5 pounds according to Evans, that’s a lb lighter than the archetypal design.

Sony has besides moved a batch of components astir with this caller motherboard design, and it means the CMOS artillery is present wholly hidden distant nether the heatsink. It was exposed before, making it casual to power out, but Evans claims you’ll present person to wholly disassemble a PS5 to regenerate the CMOS battery.

The smaller heatsink wrong the caller PS5 exemplary (1200). Image: Austin Evans (YouTube)

The SSD enclosure has besides changed successful this caller PS5 mode. It nary longer has a PCB done the full length, and alternatively has exposed metal. It’s not instantly wide wherefore Sony has changed this peculiar portion of the PS5 design, but Evans speculates it could assistance amended vigor dissipation.

All of these changes mightiness adhd up to immoderate existent satellite benefits for the PS5. Evans claims this caller PS5 exemplary pulls astir 20-30 watts little during gaming, portion inactive delivering astir the aforesaid magnitude of sound and vigor output.

“Sony shrank astir everything including motherboard and the interior packaging to marque it lighter and astir surely cheaper (for them),” says Evans connected Twitter. The caller PS5 exemplary arrives conscionable arsenic Sony has hiked its PS5 prices extracurricular of the US. Sony is expanding its PS5 prices successful the UK, Europe, Japan, China, Australia, Mexico, and Canada. Prices are jumping by 10 percent successful Europe, 21 percent successful Japan, and by astir 6 percent successful the UK.