It was back in September that Microsoft decided to unleash paper placeholders for the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S on the public, and now IKEA is reportedly doing the same thing with in-store mock-ups.
As you can see in the image below, the retailer has created full-sized versions of the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, allowing potential customers to make sure their console of choice fits with their intended storage unit.
Humorously, the PlayStation 5 in the image is accompanied with the question, "which IKEA media storage unit will be able to fit my new, meme-ishly oversized, gaming console?," with both also featuring specific measurements.
Ultimately, we think this is a pretty good idea! But not as good as those Xbox Papercraft Edition Kits...
What do you make of this? Give us your thoughts on these IKEA mock-ups below.
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Most people have Ikea units so it's just good business on their end. They also have bad ass soft serve...only reason I ever go
@Kefka2589 the meatballs are the best part about IKEA, in fact it's one of the few places I like to eat out because I'm quite fussy about spending money on food in restaraunts that's not as good as what I could eat at home. Date night is always IKEA (skip the rest of the shop and head to the canteen) or pizza express!
Can any Ikea unit actually support the weight of the PS5 tho?
Got both my PS5 and series S in an IKEA TV unit with room for a couple of retro consoles to boot!
Good idea but I find IKEA furniture quite low quality for its price range. I built my own tv unit so I know it will fit everything I need
@Kefka2589 Now if only Idea could print one of those instruction manuals with the pictures for how to install a hard drive into PS5, they'd be all set!
Since we've been talking Hitman here for days, one of my favorite scenes of Hitman 2016 was the part at the Swedish embassy where the maintenance guys were trying to put the chair together from the pictorial instructions, and when they finally gave up and went to the restroom was when you could take them out and get their uniforms....
Also, Ikea Meatballs. Horesemeat balls. Horseballs. RDR2.
I'll show myself out.
@Kefka2589 LOL. I like the PS5, I really do, but let's just say it REALLY needs an additional hard drive, and yet I don't intend to buy one until PS5's are so readily available I can get one overnight from Amazon.....I don't trust "rip off the side panels and plug it into the motherboard" if it's not a PC with off the shelf parts. And they still haven't even commented on rest mode bricking machines with an USB HDD. It'll be quite a while before I trust clipping a drive to the mobo and bending plastic tabs. Even though it's designed for it.
People mock XSX's half-the-speed (but not really), maybe more expensive storage....but I had additional storage on Nov 14. I doubt I'll have additional storage on PS5 by Sept 14.
I went to IKEA once, had meatballs.
Then followed the yellow brick road, then went home.
Never to go again 😂😂😂
@Kefka2589 heh, i have my 8tb official game hub from x1 mostly full. But I'm spoiled by ssd speeds now. Transferring to send from that drive is about 20x slower than downloading over my internet! So i keep my internal +1tb ssds nicely stocked. Vs my... What..680gb ps5 usable space.. And you can't even copy on ps5 games off drive at all.... With game pass is especially needed though.... Trying lots of games on a whim is fun.
I'm one of the few that hates IKEA. I've been a couple of times (when forced) and always seem to come home with tea lights! Never tried the meatballs or the cheesecake or anything in the cafe. Don't own ANY ikea furniture either. There. I said it. Flame me HAHAHAH
@Kefka2589
How long does it roughly take to transfer 100GB games though?
I say that because my Series X internal has games like Halo MCC, Forza Horizon 4 and MK11, which are all 100GB each so take a considerable amount of space.
@blinx01 @Kefka2589 I have both an external HDD AND an external SSD plugged into the Series X via USB.
For back compatible games there is no discernible difference in speed between an external USB SSD, the internal NVME SSD or the Expansion card according to Digital Foundry and others.
Obviously not as versatile as you can't play next gen games off it but with 2TB 'only' costing £155 in the sales compared to 1TB for £220 for the expansion card it which seems like a great middle ground. Transfers are MUCH faster than a typical HDD too.
@NEStalgia Agree PS5 needs expandable storage (covid hasn't helped as several rumoured nvme drives got delayed). But disagree on difficulty of adding it. It will take less than 2 minutes if you know what you are doing, less than 5 if you don't. Let's not over complicate it and feed the fanboys just for the memes
@Kefka2589 The external 3.5" USB is probably a little faster than a smaller laptop external, though 7200rpm drives are becoming rarer.
Larger capacities e.g. 4TB, 6TB, 8TB, 12TB etc. do see faster seek times too so it may be that, but it shouldn't be as fast as internal SSD or external SSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y-Fy1Q2O2k
Regardless Series X|S does a great job of speeding up load times across the board compared to all Xbox one models likely due to the CPU too.
@themightyant Out of curiosity what SSD are you using externally?
As for SSD installation, that video they did made it look more complicated than it probably is, but, mostly, I don't trust the OS handling it properly for a while. The OS is still in unknown status using rest mode with USB drives without bricking (because they won't acknowledge the problem at all, publicly, but kinda have (by requesting bug logs), internally to partners.) let alone the still-disabled and largely untested NVMe slot. I also don't trust the plastic tabs on the side panels until I see it done more
Agreed, though, even my 8TB spinner drive seems to load games faster than before. Might be that the old console wasn't really using the full USB speeds in general.
I’m using a standard internal 2TB Crucial MX500 SSD which was £155 in the sales. You would also need either a case with USB port or, what I have done, just used a SATA to USB cable which I already had. It really doesn’t need a case (DF did this too) Each are around £10. Or you could just get a portable SSD drive with the USB pre-built in.
The USB interface on XSX IS faster but the main speed gain in most games over Xbox one, according to Digital Foundry, is the improved CPU. The bottleneck on xbox one was unpacking all the data and the Jaguar cores were slow AF. But it all adds up to a 2.4x - 4x loading improvement on average compared to last gen. Standard external HDD's benefit from this too, but to a lesser extent.
Re: PS5: Everyone I know, and 99+% of people on all the forums and sites I follow have had no issues with external drives on PS5. I’ve been using it and rest mode since day one, zero issues, unplugged from PS4 straight into PS5.
The ‘bricking’ seems to have been vastly over exaggerated through a classic combination of people oversharing the same few stories, point scoring fanboyism and clickbait articles. This ends up amplifying the few issues into a maelstrom of exaggerated issues. Of course a few units were broken at launch (same as any new product) and some people did have to boot into safe mode (hold down power button) and click repair which whilst a little tedious is hardly a deal breaker. Give it a go, there’s no major conspiracy here for Sony to have to reveal.
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