In a recent interview, PS5 designer Yasuhiro Otori explained how Sony plans to adjust and optimize the fan and temperature development of the PlayStation 5 even after the launch of the next-gen console.
This is important to many: Heat development and especially the resulting noise from the fan was an annoying issue for many with the PS4.
And even though initial hands-on reports are saying that the new PlayStation 5 is really quiet – one of the biggest topics ahead of the PS5 launch remains the noise level as well as the heat development of the console. How will this develop over time?
However, Sony has invested a lot of time and money into the heat management of the PS5. The size of the PS5 was determined by this factor, liquid metal is supposed to help, and the fan is also massive. Now Sony has revealed that they still see potential for possible improvements, especially with the fan.
Where does the information come from? Yasuhiro Otori, the Vice President of the Hardware Design Division, spoke about this topic in an interview with the Japanese magazine 4Gamer.
Sony aims to further improve the PS5 fan – without hardware upgrades
This is what Sony has planned after the launch of the PS5: According to Otori, various additional games for the PS5 will be released in the future. Sony will collect data from all these games about how the heat development of the console behaves in those scenarios. This data is the key to understanding how millions of consoles handle a wide range of games – in various conditions: cold, warm, dusty, and so on.
Based on this data, they plan to optimize the fan control. But how exactly?
This is how Sony plans to optimize the PS5 fan “post-launch”: According to Otori, the PlayStation 5 has 3 temperature sensors on the mainboard. These can be used to control fan speed.
With the help of these sensors, Sony will be able to adjust the “fan control parameters” of the PS5 in the future to further optimize the console’s heat management – through firmware updates.
So a lot is being done to ensure that the new next-gen console runs as quietly as possible. By the way, Sony has also come up with something against dust for the PS5: PS5 offers a cool feature for dust removal that hardly anyone knows about
