PS5 Design Looks INSANE - You'll Either Love Or Hate It

Is Sony's new machine as sleek and stylish? Or does it actually look like a modem?

by Ewan Paterson
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After months of waiting, Sony finally peeled back the curtain on the PlayStation 5 yesterday. Included within the announcement were a bevy of first looks at upcoming first and third-party titles that reiterated PlayStation's focus on games first and foremost.

There was little in the way of detail surrounding the actual PS5 technical capabilities, but for the most part, fans left the event buzzing with the new announcements, which included detailed looks at Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Resident Evil 8: Village, and Horizon Forbidden West.

It was near enough a home-run, but judging from the response on social media, a love or hate narrative is beginning to emerge surrounding the design of the PS5 itself. To some, it's this wild, futuristic slice of hardware that departs from the 'box-type' consoles we've seen so much of lately, while to others, it looks... sort of like... a modem...

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Now obviously the design of the console isn't make or break, but it's hard to think of one that's divided opinion as much as this has. Personally? I'm kind of here for it. Sure, it looks like someone's taken a pair of clippers to an Xbox 360 and thrown some LEDs in to make it all fancy, but at least you can't say it looks boring!

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What do you think of the PS5's design? Let us know in the comments below!

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.