Everything PS5 Does BETTER Than Xbox Series X

5. Liquid Metal Cooling System

Another area where both companies have taken completely different approaches, Microsoft's is head-on utilitarian; how much heat will we generate? Okay, build a tower-shaped system with an entire side as a vent.

Both the Series X and S have notably large ventilation shafts, with the X in particular having it on the top-side, for heat to escape vertically.

Sony on the other hand, maintain a sleeker look for the console overall. Sure there are vents where the two white panels meet the centre core, but their secret sauce is a fancy liquid metal cooling system. Implemented alongside the aforementioned ventilation, larger fans and a massive heatsink, it allows the PS5 to - in theory - stay nice and chill whilst being whisper quiet.

At time of writing the PS5 gains the advantage as a number of journalists are reporting the SX tends to overheat to a drastic degree, but obviously these reports are based on pre-launch hardware.

It could go either way, but if we're basing both approaches to system cooling on their optimum endgame state, it'll be the PS5 by a country mile.