You may have seen reports warning you not to put your PS5 vertically, pointing out that you could permanently damage your console or even tamper with it. But there's good reason to doubt those claims, and I for one won't change the way I use my console.
We've seen reports that the PS5 can experience problems after being left standing for long periods of time. For example, @68Logic (opens in a new tab), who runs a repair shop in France, says they have seen certain cases when fixing consoles where a possible break in the seal between the cooler and the APU has caused a drain. liquid metal through the casing and other components, ruining the console.
Don't put your Ps5 upright, here's the result: the liquid moves and the gels are there pic.twitter.com/A4Do3TkcXk4 Jan 2023
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They are not the only ones who claim to have seen this defect. YouTube TheCod3r (opens in a new tab) opened a PS5 Digital Edition console that needed to be fixed and claimed that the console would not boot. He discovered a metal leak from the APU and claims the leak was the result of a design flaw.
Another thing to estimate is also the damage of the user. The constant movement of a console has the potential to cause internal damage and moving parts, so if you regularly switch your console from portrait to landscape, you could put it at risk, but even so, the cooling and processor of a PS5 are lacking. . enough to prevent any potential liquid from falling or spilling onto other components.
However, while these PS5s did break vertically, I'm not going to start laying my console horizontally. Reports of this flaw are so rare that it doesn't seem like the issue is widespread. The PS5 has been out for more than a couple of years now, and presumably quite a few people are keeping it vertical (as built). If this were a common issue, we'd see a lot more reports, like when the Xbox XNUMX suffered from the red ring of death.
In this case, the reputational risk was so severe that Microsoft offered a blanket free repair and return policy. And, in this case, the failure rate would have been between three and five percent (opens in a new tab). If PS5s failed in significant numbers, we'd know about it.
We've reached out to Sony to ask if they're aware of the protests and would like to comment but have yet to hear back. We will update this article with a statement if we receive one.