overheating problems would panic Sony a few months before its release

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“Should we legitimately be worried about problems that thea Sony PlayStation 5 ? “, questions Daniel Rubino, blogger at Windows Central on Twitter. And to add: “Everyone who follows this thing, who talks to game developers and people in the know has heard the same hallway noises for months now […] Sony may have been pulled too high (and underestimated) Microsoft” .

He then enjoins to read the capture of a long comment resuming the testimony of sources presented as game developers in independent studios and at Sony, and who, according to him, “Summarize the situation well” : “The collective feeling is that Sony messed up (sic) this generation. They underestimated Microsoft and were too confident” , says a certain Jeff Rickel in the comment which seems to have been written on YouTube.

According to him, we should therefore expect “Delays” and the famous overheating problems that would be such as the console “Would compete” in this regard “with the Xbox 360 ″. To hear it, there would even be unmistakable signs, like the fact that Sony didn’t not show console hardware like Microsoft did with its Xbox Series X : “The reason is that the hardware has an alarming failure rate.”

Internally, Sony would ask the question of a total redesign

And the author of the message to detail: “The system cannot maintain its clock frequencies. Storage m.2 heats up quickly (more bandwidth means more power consumption, therefore more heat). Even a PCIe 3.0 m.2 got hot in this version. ” He goes on to say that Sony wouldn’t have “Didn’t realize that the form factor needed to be changed.”

According to him, there would be panic on board: ” now they’re worried that they’ll have to completely change the design and make it look more like a whole XSX because it looks like they’ve just copied Microsoft. ” Jeff Rickel doesn’t stop there and points to another worrying sign: Sony has still not really shown titles available at launch.

” The reason ? “He continues, “The developers have no idea what they can optimize because Sony still has no idea what the PS5 will deliver in terms of sustained performance, and they don’t want to show screenshots of dev systems that don’t would not correspond to what a console in production would produce ”. All of this would mean that the console output would be offset by “6 to 12 months”, as the situation would be serious. Sony recently claimed that PS5 launch wouldn’t be delayed.

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Of course, you have to take these words with the necessary distance when reading such a rumor. No name is really mentioned by either the author of the tweet or the comment. Yet the fact that blogger Daniel Rubino believes it to be “A good summary” of what’s going on internally is something to worry about. We bet that we will know more quickly.

FUD or legit concerns about Sony’s PlayStation 5 having issues?

Anyone following this stuff, talking to game devs and people in-the-know have been hearing similar rumblings for months now. This just summarize it well.

Sony may have overshot (and underestimated) Microsoft. pic.twitter.com/geUAsE4oBB

– Daniel Rubino (@Daniel_Rubino) April 2, 2020

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