Leaked Photos Suggest PS5 Shell Plates Are Swappable

Maybe Do A Little Color Coding This Holiday

Not everyone loved the look of the PS5. While thereโ€™s not all that much players can do about Sonyโ€™s design decisions, there might be a bit of hope on the horizon. A set of leaked photos show the PS5 with its standard white shell plates removed. Fans are speculating that this indicates swappable plates are in the consoleโ€™s future.

PS5 swappable shell

Even with the photographic evidence, this isnโ€™t exactly a sure thing. We might merely be looking at a mostly assembled PS5, after all. But even if the plates arenโ€™t officially swappable, industrious consumers will certainly find a way to facilitate the switch on their own. On top of that, interchangeable plates were also a feature of the PS4. So there is a precedent here.

The only hitch in this giddy-up could be the disc drive version of the console. Could the driveโ€™s position make swapping plates an impossible task? Unless both halves of the PS5โ€™s king sized collar can come right off. In which case, bring on the baseless speculation about possible plate designs! My vote is either for retro wood grain, Rocketeer silver, or a casing that is also a spider mech. The director of Wild Wild West might have been on to something.

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