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Is Your PS5 Melting? - Beyond 783

Beyond

IGN

Entertainment News, News, Video Games, Leisure

4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Podcast Beyond, the Beyond crew talk about whether or not the orientation of your PS5 might be detrimental to the lifespan of your gaming console, Max Scoville invites an actual “PS5 scalper” on the podcast to both confront and ask him how his PS5 reselling business is going in 2023 given the news.

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0:00.0

I'm your host Max gobo this is episode seven hundred eighty three and I'm joined today by jade

0:18.8

Griffin once again it is just me and you max just the two of us oh goodness brands here sorry

0:24.2

that is got awkward really fast brands here in spirit but elsewhere in camera I guess I'm in

0:29.8

force ghost town good to see you all thanks for getting access jade of those very sweet yeah

0:34.4

thanks for showing up Brian it's great to have you here now before we get started just

0:38.4

to heads up i.g. in rewards is a great system where you can just get all sorts of wonderful

0:42.8

bills and whistles and bonus stuff at i.g.n. and also there's i.g.n. plus where you can pay a

0:48.0

low subscription fee and get ad free versions of i.g.n. as well as discounts and go go look

0:52.9

at those things I should have more notes in front of me but I get free stuff I think there's

0:56.2

there's sleep stakes entries and all types of stuff you get let it cool stuff anyway that was

1:00.0

the housekeeping we got through that now let's get to the real hard hitting news let's get to the

1:03.5

real the real knitting gritty PlayStation 5's are melting sort of kind of across the nation across

1:09.9

the net to heat wave in various some places around the world maybe question mostly Arizona okay so

1:16.8

there have been reports of the liquid metal cooling on the APU well it's already melted it's liquid

1:23.3

metal that's how it works but there's been reports of it basically shifting position on vertically

1:28.5

mounted PlayStation 5's this is a big deal there's also reports of it leaking out and getting all over

1:35.0

the place I think maybe this isn't really a widespread issue there are a couple there's a youtuber

1:39.7

named the coder with a three for any and six date logic on Twitter who've sort of posted either

1:44.7

you know video or images of the little liquid metal chip looking all messed up like really really

1:50.6

nasty you know and I didn't look at the pictures but I want to know like what their setup is and

1:56.1

where they have it kind of station because I've got like four going on five thousand hours into my

2:00.4

PS5 all vertical and not really seeing I haven't had any issues yet yeah I'm gonna go ahead and say

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