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  • PlayStation just released the new PlayStation Classic – a tiny little miniature PlayStation

  • that comes with 2 controllers and 20 games pre-installed onto the unit.

  • Not too shabby.

  • PlayStation is definitely copying Nintendo's miniature classic consoles of course, but

  • no complaints here.

  • It's a fun way to bring back the classic games people grew up playing.

  • It's time to take this tiny PlayStation apart and see what we're paying for.

  • Let's get started.

  • [Intro]

  • In the box we get these 2 controllers.

  • They're 1.5 meter cable length.

  • These are twice as long as the Nintendo Classic controller cables, which is nice.

  • The Nintendo Classic came with 30 games though, instead of 20 like this PlayStation does.

  • So you win some and you lose some.

  • One huge flaw is that even after paying $100 for this PlayStation Classic, it does not

  • come with a wall plug.

  • PlayStation just assumes you have enough cellphone USB wall plugs laying around and they don't

  • feel the need to include one in the box, but that's kind of messed up.

  • The top disk location does not open up, which is expected.

  • The PlayStation Classic only plays the 20 preloaded games.

  • Flipping it around we have the 2 USB ports for the PlayStation controllers, the power

  • and open buttons on the top.

  • The open button just allows you to switch between the theoretical discs for the games

  • that required more than one disc to play.

  • On the back of the console we have the HDMI output and the micro USB power port for that

  • wall adapter you have to supply yourself.

  • Getting inside the PlayStation Classic is pretty straightforward with the 5 black Phillips

  • head screws along the bottom.

  • I'll link the toolkit I'm using in the video description.

  • Once the bottom panel pops off, we get our first look at the circuit board and the funky

  • little sticker on the bottom of the plastic base.

  • This sticker is blocking the air vents with a silver color.

  • At first glance from the outside you might think there's metal inside the PlayStation

  • Classic...but nope, just a sticker.

  • With no airflow out the bottom vents either now that's it's blocked.

  • The circuit board has 4 additional screws holding it in place.

  • I'll remove those and pull the computer guts out of the plastic housing.

  • You can see the internal button structure here, just plastic contraptions that reach

  • down to the surface of the motherboard.

  • Kind of the same push style buttons we saw in the solar powered LED light I took apart

  • a few days ago.

  • The metal cover for the motherboard is just lightly stuck into place with some thermal

  • foam over the processor.

  • It's sticky on both sides.

  • And now we get our inside look at the 2 USB controller ports, the rear HDMI, and the micro

  • USB ports.

  • Pretty simple design.

  • PlayStation is definitely pulling some healthy profit margins off of this one.

  • I'll reassemble the console so we can get a closer look inside of the controller.

  • Everything on the console kind of clicks into place with little guiding plastic bits and

  • the remaining screws.

  • Pretty simple.

  • Now for the controller.

  • It feels and looks almost the same as the original controllers, but to be honest, I

  • never played around a whole lot with the PlayStation growing up.

  • My mom never let me buy one as a kid, and most of my friends had Nintendo's.

  • I have one now though...it's just much smaller than I anticipated.

  • The controller has 8 screws in the back holding the 2 halves together.

  • Once the back is removed, we see the same nifty cable routing that we saw inside the

  • Nintendo controllers.

  • These plastic pins allow the cable to be stressed and pulled but with no pressure on the fragile

  • motherboard connection itself.

  • And this is where things get interesting.

  • The plug inside the controller is just another micro USB cable.

  • So theoretically, you could just buy a longer micro USB cable from Amazon or something,

  • and install it inside your controller with this same normal micro USB plug and sit farther

  • away from your TV.

  • Pretty awesome.

  • The plastic housing and super small circuit board have little clasps holding them into

  • the exterior gray housing.

  • Unclasping those allows the plastic to release and reveal this fantastically blue ribbon

  • for the button wiring.

  • It's always fun when the insides look better than the outsides.

  • Each little black rubber pad on the bottom of the buttons touches the conductive pads

  • on top of the blue ribbon.

  • Then the massive blue ribbon plugs into the tiny circuit board on the back to handle all

  • the input data.

  • It's pretty interesting.

  • The buttons themselves are also uniquely shaped and only fit in one hole on the controller.

  • Kind of like what we saw with the Nintendo Switch buttons when we were swapping it into

  • a clear housing.

  • The rubber pad is what allows the buttons to be compressed and then springs them back

  • up into place again.

  • I might sound like a broken record at this point, but a transparent controller would

  • look pretty fantastic.

  • I almost forgot to plug the micro USB cable back into the controller and route it through

  • the little plastic pins that keep it firm and secure.

  • But yeah, PlayStation has done pretty well with this one.

  • They should definitely include a simple power brick in the box, but depending on your nostalgia

  • level towards PlayStation games, this might be a worthwhile purchase.

  • I'll have both the PlayStation Classic and the Nintendo Classic linked in the video description

  • if you want to check out the current pricing.

  • But I think it's a pretty good gift idea.

  • Hit that subscribe button if you haven't already, and let me know in the comments if you had

  • to pick one, PlayStation or Nintendo, which would it be?

  • Thanks a ton for watching.

  • I'll see you around.

PlayStation just released the new PlayStation Classic – a tiny little miniature PlayStation

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