Is Your PS5 Melting? - Beyond 783

In this episode of Podcast Beyond, the Beyond crew talk about whether or not the orientation of your PS5, vertical or horizontal, might be detrimental to the lifespan of your gaming console. There have been reports that apparently keeping the PlayStation 5 upright leading to long-term problems for internal pieces in the #PS5. The #PlayStation5 is readily available in retail stores, and 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. There’s a big reveal, and Akeem Lawanson discusses his disdain for PS5 resellers, along with his very own version of the PlayStation Project Leonardo controller kit. The Beyond crew then dives into a non-spoiler discussion of The Last of Us HBO series. Sony’s AFEELA is a car that’ll be in the wild, Brian Altano hates shimmying through cracks in video games, Jada Griffin breaks down the games she Platinumed over the holidays, and so much more on this episode of BEYOND!

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:00 PS5, vertical or horizontal?

00:07:00 Interview with a real-life PS5 scalper

00:10:12 Akeem buys a Project Leonardo controller

00:13:08 Non-spoiler-y discussion of HBO's The Last of Us

00:27:52 Brian hates shimmying through cracks

00:36:36 Sony and Honda introduce AFEELA

00:38:57 Jada's 3rd Annual Trophy Gauntlet

00:51:24 Outro