so
i've gotten into some controversy uh
this is not a video that i wanted to
make uh in fact i've actually put off
making this video for a few days because
i was hoping that things just kind of
blow over but it's just escalated right
like i've been doxxed it's sort of
crossing some lines that i'm just not
comfortable with and it's all over a
video game console so if you're landing
on this video and you're like austin why
so serious what happened um i made a
video this weekend on saturday
specifically talking about the brand new
updated model of the ps5 uh the title
was the new ps5 is worse
and uh
let's just say
the internet has not been super pleased
with some of the things i did and said
in that video
um okay so
let me run through the idea for what
happened there because it was fairly
straightforward so a couple months ago
sony announced or i didn't even announce
there was like a leak like regulatory
filing or something
there was an updated version of the ps5
and the only real thing that looked
significantly different was the weight
it was about 300 grams or a little over
half a pound lighter um i saw it as kind
of vaguely interesting
especially because they didn't really
say what was different and somebody has
a little bit of a track record for sort
of dumbing down their consoles and kind
of cost reducing them over time which is
fair enough but there was no sort of
word on anything like that
fast forward to a little over a week ago
and these things that actually started
to hit the market so they were starting
hitting like japan and australia and so
i was directly talking with someone in
japan who had gotten their hands on one
of these units paid a lot of money to
have it shipped here so i could take a
look um you know
it's not like a ps5 slim or anything
like that but i was kind of going into
the assumption that if there was such a
big weight difference that there would
be some significant internal change
right i mean a half a pound that's a lot
of something that is missing out of the
ps5 so i bought it
got into the studio and immediately
started shooting the video on what was
different
so if you've seen that video you know
that i go through and test a bunch of
stuff with it blah blah blah but the
culmination really was when i actually
cracked it open and saw that they have
massively reduced the size of the
heatsink and so i posted the video
sharing my findings sharing my opinions
on it
and uh
boy i was not ready for just how
upset
i think people are um
so yeah
let's let's break it down what i saw was
that the new ps5 runs hotter and with
the thermal images that i was able to
take plus the fact that i tore open the
ps5 and saw that sony has significantly
reduced the size of the heatsink putting
two and two together i determined that
it is a
downgrade compared to the first model
now a lot of people have taken issue
with that some people have said that oh
maybe it's more like thermally efficient
for example but my argument there would
be that just doesn't square with the
laws of physics now if i had opened up
the ps5 and it was a very different
array of like the heatsink and the fins
and the heat pipes and everything if
they have like extra air channels or a
bigger fan or whatever the case is and
to be fair the fan was slightly
different although it probably wasn't
enough to make a massive difference
certainly i don't think enough to
completely overhaul the amount of sort
of cooling that they've removed with the
actual heatsink then sure
but that's not the case the ps5 it just
simply has a smaller heatsink there's
less aluminum there's less copper
there's less material there's 300 grams
less and the laws of physics pretty
simply dictate that there's less
material and less surface area to remove
that heat off of the chip now can i tell
you with 1 000 certainty that the chip
which is really the most important thing
on the inside that the actual soc is
running hotter than the original model
no without being sony i cannot tell you
exactly what that is but using some what
i would consider to be common sense that
the
cooling apparatus is far smaller and
therefore
the temperatures i'm seeing that are
coming out of the system are
significantly higher
i feel pretty confident in the fact that
the new ps5 simply does not
run as cool as the original my thought
on why the new ps5 has been changed is
economics so
the ps5 i think is
significantly quieter than earlier ps4s
right i think sony's had issues in the
past with consoles that were too loud
especially if you had like one of those
early ps4 pros
and my thought would be is that when
they were developing the ps5 they maybe
didn't know exactly how much power they
had to run through the chip they didn't
know exactly what the whole cooling
apparatus would be they know what kind
of yields they were going to get from
tsmc all this kind of stuff so my
assumption is is they over engineered
the cooling beyond what they really
needed and then they shipped it because
oh okay it was fine however with the
various chip shortages and the price of
raw materials and ultimately with a lot
more data than they had when they made
this decision two years ago or whatever
my thought would be that sony's probably
looked at the ps5 and go you know what
we actually slightly over engineered the
cooling to hit our specs whether it
would be on the clock speed or the
longevity or whatever and so to save
money they have trimmed back on the
material which not only saves in the
actual copper and aluminum they have to
purchase but also in like shipping costs
of a pallet of ps5s that each weigh you
know half a pound less that adds up now
what's kind of unfortunate about this in
addition to all of the the anger on the
fanboy side of things is the fact that
scalpers have really piled onto this
video and now they're selling the first
models of the ps5 for significantly more
than they were before the video
that's stupid i
that's
look if you have the new and the old ps5
in front of me and asked me to pick one
i would pick the old one you know what i
would pay more for it
five bucks like it is a small difference
it's a difference and it's a difference
that i was happy to highlight but it is
nowhere near the thing that has been
sort of made out to be when the video
first went live there are a few people
like oh i don't know blah blah whatever
but uh over the last few days i mean my
twitter has been absolutely unusable
people like you
you know you microsoft paid you
or like oh you're wrong the amount of
videos people have made and like i'm not
gonna hate on you for jumping on a trend
and you know making the stuff for the
amount of like austin evans is a liar
the ps5 is no different or oh i think
that the thermal material they took out
there that's completely useless and all
this kind of stuff but what's kind of
happened is that a lot of the things i
said in that initial video they were
written up on like lots of articles and
websites and all over like reddit and
stuff and then people then quoted that
and then made videos on like
intercutting me talking about the
playstation the xbox and in ways it just
it's gotten to a ridiculous sort of
degree really quickly i've been making
videos for 12 years on tech i've done a
lot of videos on controversial subjects
but the level of just toxicity that i've
seen with this conversation
is orders of magnitude higher than
anything i've ever seen
look
there's a lot of reasons i think behind
that um
but ultimately
i
it's hard because
if you look at someone like digital
foundry who i have a ton of respect for
and they're one of the only people
who've actually instead of just
commenting on this thing actually
they've got one of these psi's right
they went out and bought one of the new
ps5s and in their testing they i don't
believe they've done the thermal testing
they determined yeah it's pulling about
the same power as the original ps5 and
that you're getting about the same
performance which is well worth a read
people keep sending it to me as if it's
like the exposed austin evans is wrong
article i 100 agree with every single
word in that article right at no point
have i said that the ps5 is losing
performance or anything like that all i
have said is that based on my own
testing it seems to be running hotter
which would logically make sense with a
smaller heatsink and therefore you could
have some issues down the line if you're
in a really thermally constrained
environment like it's got like a you're
in a tv cabinet or something your ps5
may run hotter it may have less
longevity but that's all i've said
however the the discourse has to quickly
turn into i hate the ps5 and i'm this
clickbait youtuber who doesn't know what
he's talking about is just trying to get
views
thumbnails and titles are incredibly
important on youtube and some people
have taken issue with what the the title
and thumbnail i used for the ps5 video
fair enough fair criticism um what i
would say to that is at least for the
title i do think the ps5 is worse is
there a more accurate version of that
title which i think the new ps5 is very
slightly worse because i opened it up
yeah sure maybe that's a slightly more
accurate title but ultimately i think
the message of my thoughts on the ps5
were accurately portrayed by that title
hasn't been changed won't be changed on
the thumbnail which i think is probably
where people got a little bit more salty
yeah so this is the thumbnail of my ps5
video and yes it has been photoshopped
that's not exactly what the ps5 looks
like but here's the thing right
the way that the youtube algorithm works
is that if a video does not get a click
it is buried right it is very simple if
you don't get the click on the video
youtube will not push it out it will not
get impressions it will not give views
you're wasting your time all right now
if i had made a ps5 on fire which sure
yeah we've done some silly thumbnails in
the past absolutely but this this to me
i guess at least and maybe i'm wrong
maybe this is where your opinion differs
i don't think this is a crazy clickbait
thumbnail in fact actually the original
version of this thumbnail before it went
live was actually of the proper two ps5
side by side the problem is is that most
people look at the thumbnail for about a
half a second you're scrolling through
if i show you the thumbnail oh there it
went did you were you able to see it
were you able to kind of tell the
difference no probably not because while
yes when you look at it in person when
you're actually watching the video the
difference in the heat sinks is pretty
noticeable but on a tiny little
thumbnail that flies across the screen
it's simply not something that you'll
see the other thing that has been
everywhere is how i'm a paid microsoft
shell and i hate sony
look yes i absolutely got my hands on an
xbox series x early microsoft provided
an opportunity for me to take a look at
the series x sony did not offer that
same opportunity which means that while
yes i made a lot of series x videos on
like talking about it in the news and
when i got my hands on reviews all that
kind of stuff throughout last year all
of these sony ps5 videos i did last year
were entirely me buying controllers
buying consoles trying to get my hands
on them now you can say that you know
microsoft giving me a review unit makes
me biased and that's fair criticism if
you think that's the way it works i can
tell you though that if i would have had
reviews of the ps5 i would make twice as
many videos because the numbers don't
lie the ps5 is a far more popular
console than the xbox and therefore as
someone who makes videos that are
supposed to be popular i want to make
the thing that is going to perform the
best let me be crystal clear if a video
has a paid sponsorship i disclose it not
only because that's the right thing to
do it's also the thing that i have to do
legally right so when i've been
sponsored by microsoft or sony or any
number of our other sponsors that keep
the lights on and keep the channel you
know running and stuff i will say
straight up this video is sponsored by
blank right so look believe me or not
believe me it's up to you but
microsoft had nothing to do with this
ps5 video and in fact i would go even
farther and like look if you think that
i'm some biased microsoft shill you know
i did the first second i got my hands on
a series x an actual fully functional
unit i didn't follow the you know the
embargo of like talking about games and
stuff i tried to overheat the thing do
you think microsoft was happy when i did
a prototype xbox series xn months ahead
of time and i make a video trying to
overheat it no they weren't happy about
that but i don't care right as long as
i'm not breaking some rule or anything
like that i want to make the videos that
are most interesting and relevant to you
right i want to find these things out i
find it super fascinating you know what
that series x video was all about it was
a similar concept to what i did with
this ps5 i was probably getting boxes
trying to cut off the airflow i was
trying to see exactly how far you could
push the series x to see if it was
actually engineered correctly
versus something like i don't know some
of the older systems that had
overheating issues or whatever the case
is in fact the series x video i did last
year has been intercut on twitter with
my ps5 video to make it seem like i'm
like making the series x look good the
ps5 look bad look you can absolutely
hold me to this if microsoft comes out
with a follow up xbox series x or series
s that is downgraded is less powerful in
the cooling or whatever i'll 1000 make a
video on it and call them out the exact
same way that i've called out sony right
if that is the case if they do that i
will be happy to dive into it to find
out exactly to the best of my ability
what's going on and i will make a video
all about it you have my word on that
what's happened at this point is that
well microsoft hasn't changed it at all
they're shipping the exact same console
which you know good or bad doesn't
really matter it's the exact same
console for thermal performance that's
not what i've been talking about with
this ps5 thing i'm purely talking about
the old ps5 versus the new ps5 they're
charging you the exact same amount for
and yet has a inferior cooling solution
look
if you think i'm wrong that's your
opinion and be my guest if you want to
make memes you want to go make videos on
why austin evans is a liar go for it
right cash on the controversy it's not
like i've never done a video on
something controversial
but
things are
this is a ps5 right
the
fact that the doxing and some of the the
more extreme elements of this i think
are
way out of proportion right i get it i
am making content i am making things
that you may not agree with
i stand behind the video i made i stand
behind my opinion which again agree with
or disagree with that's fine but
the the level of of toxicity in the
community i think is
it's it's
it's a lot right now uh not to name
names and it's not this is not me um but
people i know
in the sort of this space um have gotten
like death threats and just like
ridiculous stuff which is there's no
excuse for that right
ultimately we're talking about a ps5
right i'm talking about a ps5 which is a
couple degrees warmer that has a
slightly smaller heat sink it's not
worth taking things to such a ridiculous
degree that's why i'm making this video
that's why this would be i'm very happy
if it's the last time i have to talk
about this but it's something that i
wanted to say something i want to get
out there because uh
it's
a lot so that's it
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