PS5 reveal: dev kit or not, this is one strange-looking console

The PS5 has been revealed... kind of. A new images of the upcoming PS5 has emerged but it seems the internet is fighting as to whether it's the real console or just a dev kit that is doing the rounds.

Now, games consoles, generally speaking, have all the aesthetic flair of a box of cereal. You have to go back to the Nintendo GameCube to find anything that isn’t a black or white box with a disk drive and USB ports.

Then again, the alternative could be worse, as a new patent from Sony has shown. The above picture, captured by Let’s Go Digital, is taken from a patent from the company, and shows a machine with a deep-cut V design and a whole host of vents. Come back utilitarian designs, all is forgiven.

Is this the PS5 then? Well, apparently it’s a devkit, according to one now-deleted tweet, captured by IGN:

The account has now gone private – you’re really not supposed to reveal information about dev kits – but that would certainly make sense. You’d imagine the finished product would look slightly sleeker.

Even if this is the plan for both dev kit and finished product, the PlayStation 5 – or whatever it ends up being called – is still some way off. While we do know a few things about it already, designs can (and usually do) change, as anybody who remembers Sony’s original ‘banana’ design for the PS3 controllers will know.