Look at what's inside PlayStation 4
Engineering director Yasuhiro Ootori shows off how easy it is to open up a PS4 and see all the components that have been squeezed into the $400 box.
PlayStation 4 is now nearly a week away. The upcoming next-generation console is quite powerful, but it's also beautifully assembled. A new video from Wired breaks down the system by opening it up. Engineering director Yasuhiro Ootori shows off how easy it is to open up a PS4 and see all the components that have been squeezed into the $400 box.
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Engineering director Yasuhiro Ootori shows off how easy it is to open up a PS4 and see all the components that have been squeezed into the $400 box.-
HD MP4 version. Higher bit rate than what you see in that web player.
http://condenastl3cdn.cust.footprint.net/videos/52783b2eee3ec9021500000f/high.mp4-
Thanks. Watching on my parents Pentium 4 machine so HD youtube won't cut it.
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I love that PS4 has the power supply built into the hardware.
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I hope both companies learned from their collective disaster in the last generation. Both systems overheated and their cheap solder couldn't hold the chips in place.
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The PS3 slim has an internal power supply, and it has no cooling problems. The original PS3s ran hotter and had loud fans.
IIRC, the original XBox had an internal power supply, but back in 2005, there was a recall for a "potential fire hazard" ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4274035.stm ), which was caused by bad solder joints on the AC power cord connector ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/19/xbox_recall_nofix/ ).
The 360's power supply is pretty substantial; looking on my 360 Slim Arcade's power supply, it says 135 watts (about 11 amps on the 12V channel, with 1A on 5V standby). That might have been a cautious move on Microsoft's part to keep the power supply internals away from the main case, which we now know ran hot on its own.
Sony has more experience with consumer electronic design; they've been doing CD players and DVD players for quite a while.
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ya. those power bricks are annoying.
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I think it's good business to make your console easily serviceable. I know many people weren't very happy about having to pay $200 to get their PS3's repaired by Sony.
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Thanks for the post, very interesting. But regarding the Xbox1 and it being a little less powerful, why is it's box so big then? At least the pics I've seen make it look like a 1985 VCR compared to the PS4 box?? Anyone know if they have incorporated the PSU into it this time a round?
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They haven't, it still ships with a brick.
The answer to this question seems pretty simple to me. SONY is a very well oiled machine when it comes to hardware manufacturing and industrial design, MS is not. MS is just starting to make a lot of their own products in other sectors. SONY is simply better at this part of the game than MS.-
I guess so, but aren't all the internals manufactured by other companies, like AMD?
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My guess is they're being extra cautious about over heating. All rumours point to the fact MS were a little behind with the xbox1, so they probably didn't have as much time as they would have liked to test and perfect the design, so instead decided to create a bulkier design that they knew simply couldn't over heat.
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I suspect another part of it is MS wanted this to look like a piece of home theater equipment, not a game console. So they made it a big black box like receivers.
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Lol, that's it!
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Very good move for both companies to include an ethernet port. Nintendo made a huge mistake by not including one for the Wii U. It's pretty much necassar5y for serious competitive multiplayer.
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it surprises me how , with all the technology that the world poses, motherboards still require that damn 3v battery.
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I'm thinking there's an easier way, but they didn't make that clear.
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It's very easy. You flip it over and pull off a cover (no screws) then remove one screw to pull out the hard drive. We linked to it on the chatty thread.
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Watch it again they made a quick cut and wiped down the APU before showing it.
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