A hot potato: Nosotros recently reported about a new PS5 hardware revision and how units with a new model number popped up at Australian retailers nigh a calendar week agone, as well every bit speculation over how the lighter weight was accomplished. It seems now that "removing unnecessary materials" was correct on the mark -- at least, if Sony counts a significant amount of the cooling assembly every bit unnecessary materials.

YouTuber Austin Evans was able to become one of the new CFI-eleven-serial PlayStation units imported from Nihon to compare it with a launch model (spotter beneath), and while it sported a lighter weight and a new hand-adjustable stand screw every bit expected, a cursory test as well found that temperatures at the rear exhaust were consistently 3 to v°C hotter on the new model.

Later opening up the console itself, the reasons were chop-chop fabricated axiomatic: also the change in fan design, the fin stack was significantly smaller on the revised version and the heatsink seemed to have been switched from copper to aluminum.

Other components may accept too been changed -- Evans noted a difference in Wi-Fi antenna setup, although the ii models weren't tested on that front -- just the difference in cooling setup was substantial.

Sony recently shared that the standard edition of the PS5 had reached profitability, but it besides stated that the all-digital edition (the model bought by Evans) was still being sold at a loss, and it looks similar the company is looking to trim off any fatty it tin can in gild to lower product costs.

It's worth noting that the thermal testing conducted past Evans was fairly express -- a thermal camera pointed at the exhaust doesn't compare to the more robust testing conducted past Gamers Nexus when they called out the launch PS5 for already having a weak cooling solution, and were able to identify its memory modules as an result. However, less fin expanse with a less conductive heatsink generally isn't a recipe for better thermals.

Either way, it feels a petty mercenary for Sony to be skimping out on cooling like this; since the PS5's processor variably boosts depending on headroom (as opposed to the fixed-frequency Xbox Serial consoles), information technology might end up merely throttling back operation in order to mitigate heat issues brought on from inferior cooling.