Surely you look at the date of this post to confirm that it is not a joke because this controversy about the greater chances that a PlayStation 5 has of breaking down if we use it vertically has its time but, despite the evidence that indicates that (at the moment) it is not like that, some media spurred on by experts remain in their thirteen and they warn us of the dangers that are to come, as in the story of “Peter and the Wolf”.
Vertically or horizontally?
As we tell you, a few months ago a controversy over some supposed tweets in which a user claimed that his PlayStation 5 had been damaged from having used it from the first day in a vertical position. Essentially the same way Sony has shown it in virtually every published artwork of the machine since its final look was revealed ahead of launch in November 2020.
Sony has already gone to the media to settle the matter, stating that nothing that had been published had a basis because the console had been designed precisely to allow optimal operation in either of the two orientations. And to this day, no one has gone to the media to show an irreparable disaster because the one that gave rise to the controversy quickly became known that it had never occurred. It had been an invention.
With that background, why worry about how to use our PlayStation 5? Well, you have to look for the reason in a French medium that has decided return with the donkey to the wheat and remove the old controversy, this time, protected by the vision of a series of experts in machine repairs like Sony’s.
Is PlayStation 5 in portrait a danger?
Thus, the medium has uncovered a video in which openly state that “PlayStation 5 has a technical problem that it can damage the console in the long term”, and that it has to do with the famous coolant liquid metal that could leak from the sealed compartment in which it is located when we bought it, leak and reach other components.
Those leaks, and due to the high conductivity of the material, would cause short circuits in the console components, damaging them. Something that could happen over the years and hypothetically, since as we tell you, no widespread cases have been reported in which this assumption has become a reality.
It goes without saying that Sony has not said anything yet and, if we have to refer to any statement from the Japanese, we should look at the moment when this controversy already hit the media and they reminded us that their machine was designed to be used interchangeably in any of the two positions.
So from this precise moment you have two options: use your PS5 as before, or prevent just in case and leave it horizontal, lest these experts are right and you end up killing a console that, if it breaks, is difficult to replace in the short term. At least until the stock it normalizes…
