The PS5 is a powerful but ugly beast. It's arguably the ugliest PlayStation console to date. This explains why fans want Sony to release a slimmer console. Unfortunately, this isn't a priority for Sony right now. So, while Sony is focused on keeping up with the demand of the base PS5 models and creating a professional DualSense controller, one YouTuber took it upon himself to create a truly slim PS5 machine.
According to the YouTuber, DIY Perks, he has just made the "world's first PlayStation 5 Slim" and with a height of just 2 centimeters, you can't blame him for being proud.
You can check out the entire process below if you're curious to see how he achieved it:
Of course, making a slimmer PS5 unit is much easier said than done. As DIY Perks shows in his video, even someone who does stuff like this for a living makes mistakes. In addition to this, making the PS5 slimmer, which is already expensive at $499, isn't cheap. The total cost of the external power brick as well as the multiple radiators and cooling fans that DIY Perks used in his video could easily rival the price of the console itself. Although it was nice to see the PS5's operating temperature drop from 95 degrees Celsius to 52 degrees Celsius as a result of the design choice, we don't think that most people will go with something this impractical.