Get another glimpse inside the PlayStation 5 with IFixit’s new TDown

iFixit has unveiled its PlayStation 5 and its Dual Sense controller teardrop – and it goes into even more detail than Sony did earlier this year. The gadget repair company discovered that the console has a ton of screws that hold it together, and it’s a weird catch for replacing an optical drive.

Photo: Creative Electron (via iFixit)

It turns out that the optical drive is locked to the software on the motherboard. The physical swap is obviously a piece of cake, but the discs you switched won’t read, so if your optical drive fails you’ll send it to Sony. It’s a bumper for me in particular: PlayStation has been my terrible luck with optical drives, and the only drive I don’t need to replace is on my PS4 (which was only a few years old when I sold it).

There’s no sweat for the owners of the Disless Digital version, though – and as we’ve seen before, it’ll be easier to add an extra SSD when the console finally supports it: it only includes removing one side panel and screwing it. .

Photo: Ifixit

The teardown also provides an interior view on the power supply (above), which Sony hadn’t shown us before. As someone dubbed in PC gaming, it always strikes me as having only 350W power supply when I remember the PS5 (and it uses up to 200 watts under load!)

Photo: Ifixit

Turning to the dual sense controller, iFixit found that it is relatively easy to replace its battery – considering what is good it still uses internal Li-ions that will degrade over time. It is also Huge At 7.7 watt-hours compared to the 7.7Wh pack in DualShock. It must be thirsty for adaptive triggers and heptic response motors. We’ll also get another look at that awesome screw drive that powers those adaptive triggers.

What I don’t see is an easy way to unhook the LEDs around the DualSense’s touchpad. This may be a special thing, but I totally hated the light on the DualShock 4, and while the new isn’t boring, I wish Sony would let you turn it off or let the screwdriver-handy gamers leave it too much. Bustle

You can visit Ifixit’s teardown page to see more photos. And if you want a feeling for what it might be like to disassemble devices (now without effectively risking 1,000 consoles now), the company has provided a video of the teardown that you can watch below.