Hermen Hulst (Head of PlayStation Studios) plays his PlayStation 5 upside down

[stryke]

Hermen tweeted his cat scratching up the TV with bugsnax, showing the PS5 upside down. He then quickly deletes and reposts with it cropped out.

 

[ItchyTasty]

Don't know why I imagined it being upside down in the vertical direction

 

[It’s Time To Go]

But if he has it sideways, it's not upside down.

 

[XR.]

Makes you think, huh

 

[Tailzo]

Even people at Sony are confused by the Playstation 5 design :) Funny cat :)

 

[Deleted member 12323]

Cat scratch fever

 

[nadbmal]

To be fair all of his games are probably digital so he never uses the disc drive...
but yes that is hilarious.

 

[Lifejumper]

Arrogant Sony

 

[Theorry]

Maybe he has the Australian version

 

[That1GoodHunter]

Somehow people will also extrapolate a Silent Hill tease from this clip... wont they....

 

[Kinthey]

Needs a big "this side up" sticker

 

[Indy_Rex]

I think the biggest design flaw of the PS5, and the single most obvious tell that it was such an afterthought (not counting aesthetics) is the fact that, unless you're eye-level or above eye-level to the PS5, the "lip" pretty much makes it impossible to put a disc in.

 

[Javier23]

Somehow people will also extrapolate a Silent Hill tease from this clip... wont they....

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It's actually rather obviously a tease for a AAA Stranger Things game.

 

[Chinner]

So? This will only encourage bullying.

 

[bud]

that's actually very unprofessional.

as the head of playstation studios, he should know how it works.

 

[Herb Alpert]

Remember when reggie was playing Mario kart

 

[Radec]

I'm actually offended by that reversed Ps5.

What can Sony do with this?

 

[Strings]

Letting a cat do that to the TV is bad enough :/

 

[Bundy]

that's actually very unprofessional.

as the head of playstation studios, he should know how it works.

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Jim Ryan is firing him right now as we speak.

 

[FinFunnels]

He should have owned up to it instead of deleting it. It's funny and ultimately harmless (well, maybe not harmless to the hardware lol)

 

[Dust]

Oh my god, this is unacceptable. Did the hashtag #NotMyHermen already start?

 

[Chip Chanceworth]

Does the horizontal stand even work on that side? Or is he just raw dogging it?

 

[Mechaplum]

that's actually very unprofessional.

as the head of playstation studios, he should know how it works.

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Not sure if /s.

 

[ArmGunar]

Maybe he has the Australian version

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Lmao 😂

 

[MeltedDreams]

lol whatever makes it easier to get the damn disc out of the system.
PS5 design is weird, man.

Jim Ryan is firing him right now as we speak.

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Good opportunity for Druckmann to replace him. :D

 

[stryke]

Jim Ryan is firing him right now as we speak.

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Shawn Layden would never make this mistake

 

[E.T.]

Anti consumer

 

[FarZa17]

Before I entered this thread, my first guess was a vertical position in upside down (disc tray on top), but this one got me.

 

[EssBeeVee]

What if this fixed all the ps5 issues

 

[Bundy]

Shawn Layden would never make this mistake

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[julia crawford]

Sony probably has one of those "if you show the console it must be in this and this condition or position". Doesn't mean someone would fire him, but maybe he just understands the value of that kind of thing and did the change on his own terms.

 

[u_neek]

Maybe he has the Australian version

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hahaha

 

[Dog]

Fire him.

 

[Lepi]

What a baffling mistake to make. How can he have literally never seen one set up before?

Also won't get fired wtf. Jesus Christ

 

[FinFunnels]

This reminded me of how I used to intentionally play my GameCube with it upside down, since, in its later years, it would have frequent disc read errors if I didn't.

 

[Shifty360]

Hey look, its nothing.

Who cares? Why should they?

 

[Deleted member 44129]

Plot twist, it's the tv, the cat, and the camera that are upside down.

 

[Sausage_Poison]

Jim Ryan is firing him right now as we speak.

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Jim Ryan doesn't even have a PS5 in his home.
/s

 

[TheRealTalker]

Maybe that is the secret way to get the best performance?

 

[Knight in Shining Armani]

Imagine putting a disc in that way. Vile.

 

[The Last One]

If you play like that the console turns into a PS5 Pro.

Pretty cool, right?

 

[Bucéfalo]

NGL, that's pretty ridiculous, he is a PlayStation top executive lmao.

I hope they come with a better design when an eventual revision arrives.

 

[oldsnakeonline]

Maybe he was teasing gravity rush 3?

 

[Strings]

Shawn Layden would never make this mistake

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Isn't his analog Shuhei? What I'm trying to say is, bring back Shuhei, I miss him being more front facing ;(

 

[SplitYourInfinities]

Okay this is hilarious for so many reasons.

 

[ghostcrew]

Does the horizontal stand even work on that side? Or is he just raw dogging it?

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I reckon he just left the stand in the box and put it the way round where it would actually lay flat.

Guy's a visionary!

 

[MeltedDreams]

I hope they come with a better design when an eventual revision arrives.

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I think re-design is coming faster than we think. Launch model is not only huge boi but also weirdly designed.

 

[pikablu]

Lol wow. Weird he didn't even put the stand on.

 

[Midas]

Haha what a weird thing. I wonder why.

 

[RestEerie]

Arrogant Sony

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That's Anti-consumer, y'all...