Based on my experience and a lot of Reddit threads, I’m beginning to think that Sony released a bad batch of PS5s in early 2024 that are all failing 4-6 months out of warranty. Not red ring of death failure numbers, but close. They’re charging $229 to “repair or replace” and then they just silently replace them all with more recent revisions because they’re not worth repairing. I never buy the launch editions of consoles. I wait until they release the Slim or whatever the equivalent is. I still got burned.

I think that odd-numbered Playstation generations are just not great, with the exception of the PS1. PS2: Great. PS3? Trash. PS4? Rock solid. I have two. PS5? Trash. The crazier the external design looks, the worse the internal parts are. The PS6 will probably be incredible and basically look like a brick.