{"id":183,"date":"2026-04-09T14:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5fa9bfc6e4b082e810c70941"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:49:11","slug":"ps5-designer-says-original-concepts-were-even-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/ps5-designer-says-original-concepts-were-even-bigger\/","title":{"rendered":"PS5 Designer Says Original Concepts Were Even Bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/playstation-5\">PlayStation 5<\/a> is big. Much larger than any modern console these past few generations, but according to its designer the original drawings for Sony\u2019s next-gen games console were supposedly even bigger.\u201cIt\u2019s kind of funny that engineering actually told me it\u2019s too big,\u201d PlayStation 5 designer Yujin Morisawa said in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video-games\/2020\/11\/09\/ps5-design\/?arc404=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post<\/a>. \u201cSo, I actually had to shrink it down a little bit from the first drawing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/ps5-heres-what-the-console-looks-like-up-close\">15.4 inches tall<\/a>, the PS5 dwarfs the competition pretty easily. It outsizes the Xbox Series X and even the hefty Xbox One by a good amount as well as past Sony systems like the original PlayStation 3.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"widget-container\" readability=\"-23.5\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-2486504960 slideshow-preview\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>PS5 Console First Look, Size Comparison<\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-2486504960 images-container\"><button aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-2486504960 hero-image\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-3905315446 aspect-ratio-container aspect-ratio-16-9\">\n<div class=\"jsx-3905315446 aspect-ratio-child\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ps5-designer-says-original-concepts-were-even-bigger.jpg\" alt=\"PS5, with banana for scale\" class=\"jsx-2920405963 progressive-image image jsx-2126225085 expand loading\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/output>\u201cI knew it was going to be large because I know how much power there was going to be, so I knew how much airflow you would need and how much space for a heat sink,\u201d Morisawa said. \u201cWe wanted to get it much smaller, so it\u2019s the perfect size right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morisawa says that any smaller and there would be less airflow for the PS5 that would \u201cdisturb\u201d the players while playing.<\/p>\n<p>While the PS5\u2019s sheer size is still staggering in its final form, the form factor allows all of the internal components to behave efficiently. And while the hardware may have dictated the size, Morisawa says the actual design and form factor was for aesthetics.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"article-video-container\"><\/output>\u201cWhen you design something, you want to make it feel comfortable. Sometimes it looks like a plant or some animal or some object. I think that\u2019s more comfortable than something weird, or something that they\u2019ve never seen before,\u201d Morisawa says.<\/p>\n<p>Check out IGN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/playstation-5-review\">full review of the PS5 here<\/a>, as well as our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/wikis\/playstation-5\">PS5 wiki<\/a> for a full rundown of everything you\u2019ll ever need to know about the system before launch. We also have reviews on PS5 launch games like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/marvels-spider-man-miles-morales-ps5-review\">Spider-Man: Miles Morales<\/a> and (talkin\u2019 about) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/bugsnax-review\">Bugsnax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Matt T.M. Kim is a reporter for IGN.<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/ps5-designer-says-original-concepts-were-even-bigger\">News Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PlayStation 5 is big. Much larger than any modern console these past few generations, but according to its designer the original drawings for Sony\u2019s next-gen games console were supposedly even bigger.\u201cIt\u2019s kind of funny that engineering actually told me it\u2019s too big,\u201d PlayStation 5 designer Yujin Morisawa said in an interview with The Washington Post. \u201cSo, I actually had to shrink it down a little bit from the first drawing.\u201d At 15.4 inches tall, the PS5 dwarfs the competition pretty easily. It outsizes the Xbox Series X and even the hefty Xbox One by a good amount as well as past Sony systems like the original PlayStation 3. PS5 Console First Look, Size Comparison \u201cI knew it was going to be large because I&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/ps5-designer-says-original-concepts-were-even-bigger\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ign"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PS5 Designer Says Original Concepts Were Even Bigger | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The PlayStation 5 is big. 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