(Retracted)"Upright PS5 leaking liquid metal" claim retracted by website

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Setting Up Your PS5 Vertically Doesn’t Seem To Be As Drastic An Issue As Previous Reports Suggested

A report from Wololo.net sent plenty of PS5 owners into a bit of a panic a few days ago when it claimed that keeping your PS5 console in the vertical orientation is potentially killing your console.

The report claimed that unopened consoles, originally interpreted as unopened, in-box consoles, left in vertical orientation for too long, could potentially see the liquid metal drip down the side of the motherboard and permanently damage the console.




It was also suggested that the same could happen to those consoles in use in the vertical orientation. However it’s beginning to look like the original reports aren’t as dire as they once seemed.

Firstly, Wololo.net has published an update on their report, clarifying that the PS5’s in question were not unopened in the sense that they had yet to be taken out of the box.




They were only unopened in regards to the console itself not having been opened by other repair stores or the owners themselves.






Wololo.net still claims that this remains an issue, though others aren’t entirely convinced.

Spawn Wave of SpawnWaveMedia for one, a YouTuber who ran a console repair shop for years prior to his YouTube career. He doesn’t believe this should really be that much of a problem, due to the extensive barrier Sony placed around the liquid metal, and his understanding of how the cooling liquid works in the first place.









He also pointed out that the reports of this happening are still very few, and not evidence that there’s a rampant issue.

“Sony did go above and beyond here with this barrier.”

Spawn Wave does however point out how the liquid metal might look towards the end of the PS5’s life cycle, without being replaced for multiple years.
 

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unfortunate there are to many Xbox shill accounts out there that take this as gospel. Why is it so hard not to be a fool?

Exactly. But the sad part is that the first ones are always the same. Is a concerted effort. I wouldn't be amazed if they get emails or are part of a discord group (journos, etc) and are notified of these things in advance.
 
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Sony built a substantial guard around the chip to prevent this from happening, so idk how this would even happen unless someone opened it up and messed with it. These things survive shipping with an electrically conductive material inside of them.
It's just FUD, Lenovo has laptops with liquid metal TIM on their cpus. No one bats an eye at it.
 

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Just some random fanboy with 300 "followers" isn't even worth mentioning.
There are folks searching for any negative news on Sony to post on forums, twitter, youtube etc.....with the intention that it will spread. They do this instead of asking Phil to bring the games. Meanwhile PS has GOW Ragnarok, Forbidden West, Sifu, Stray on multiple GOTY lists....

As for the "putting your PS5 vertical" FUD piece, it was always lies. Engineers at Sony are the best at hardware. This was always in the same bracket as "PS5's are overheating and catching fire" be warned....
 
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