If you've got yourself a PlayStation 5, first of all, well done. That is, assuming you acquired it through purely legitimate means, and not from the back of a moving vehicle. As if you did, you're a bad person, and you should feel bad.
Second of all, please, please, follow the instructions regarding how to use your new console. The PS5 can be used one of two ways - flat, horizontally, with its disc-drive beer belly on its underside; or erect, standing tall and proud, totally putting all other consoles in its shadow, due to it being, indeed, an absolute unit.
Don't do what PlayStation's own Head of Worldwide Studios, Hermen Hulst did, and put your PlayStation 5 the wrong way up, and then put a video or your error on the internet. I mean, come on, this is social media 101. If you're supposed to know all about something, don't hang your whole arse out for the world to see by apparently not knowing about it.
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Former Guerrilla Games managing director Hulst posted a clip of his cat having a great old time trying to catch the tasty bugsnax of the recently released Bugsnax - nice try, kitty - but then had to delete the video when he realised his PS5 was inappropriately inverted. However, the internet always remembers, and ResetEra user stryke screengrabbed the upload for posterity. And for our reporting needs, obviously. As this is such a crucial story, for your day, today, right now. Video games.
Hulst posted a new video of his cat having a laugh - you're never gonna catch them - with the upside-down console cleverly removed from shot. But, Hermen, mate, the damage? Already done. Hopefully not to your PS5, you understand, but surely there's a Good Reason why you don't run these consoles on their, um, heads? Rather than their... bellies? IDK. It's a piece of gaming hardware, it doesn't really have human-like features. I can only imagine that actually running a PS5 upside down, for a wee while, will have those fans failing to properly redistribute all the heat.
Other ResetEra users swiftly added their own comments to the post. "Needs a big, 'this side up', sticker," said one. Another, (ex-president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America) "Shawn Layden would never make this mistake." And another, "What a baffling mistake to make. How can he have literally never seen one set up before?" I mean, maybe he hasn't? The man's busy - probably too busy to actually play games. I know I am.
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In related PS5 news, Sony's new console had the biggest launch for such a product in the US, ever, which is great news - but what if they'd had enough units to meet demand, eh? And it's worth remembering, too, that some people who ordered PS5s received bricks instead. That's a thing that happened, in the cursed year of 2020. You can watch GAMINGbible's review of the PlayStation 5, below.
Topics: PlayStation 5