{"id":73742,"date":"2019-12-04T03:07:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T10:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/remember-how-simple-consoles-used-to-be-with-this-original-playstation-teardown\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T03:07:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T10:07:52","slug":"remember-how-simple-consoles-used-to-be-with-this-original-playstation-teardown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/remember-how-simple-consoles-used-to-be-with-this-original-playstation-teardown\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember how simple consoles used to be with this original PlayStation teardown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/S3kM3DNA2JykqDOX.0.jpeg?w=900&#038;ssl=1\"><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/Teardown\/Sony+PlayStation+Teardown\/128089?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=120319_PR_PlayStation1%20Teardown&#038;utm_content=120319_PR_PlayStation1%20Teardown+CID_a04604bdc602b6e2b8ec1b749744813a&#038;utm_source=CampaignMonitor&#038;utm_term=tore%20one%20down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>iFixit<\/em><\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/12\/3\/20970458\/playstation-anniversary-ps5-ps4-plus-games-ps3-ps2-25th-sony\">original PlayStation is turning 25 years old<\/a>, and to celebrate, <em>iFixit<\/em> is turning its screwdrivers and plastic pry bars to the retro console in <a href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=66960X1514734&#038;xs=1&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifixit.com%2FTeardown%2FSony%2BPlayStation%2BTeardown%2F128089%3Futm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3D120319_PR_PlayStation1%2520Teardown%26utm_content%3D120319_PR_PlayStation1%2520Teardown%2BCID_a04604bdc602b6e2b8ec1b749744813a%26utm_source%3DCampaignMonitor%26utm_term%3Dtore%2520one%2520down&#038;referrer=theverge.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">one of its signature teardowns<\/a>. There aren\u2019t too many surprises hiding inside the 25-year-old device, but the teardown is still neat for a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>First off, it\u2019s wild to see just how much more advanced our current consoles are compared to these earlier models. As <em>iFixit<\/em> points out, the standard, non-Pro PlayStation 4 has 50 times the processing power and 4,000 times more RAM than the original PlayStation \u2014 to the point that the original doesn\u2019t even need a fan to cool down the internals.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div data-anthem-component=\"readmore\" data-anthem-component-data='{\"stories\":[{\"title\":\"Naughty Dog\u2019s president on how games changed since the first PlayStation: \u2018They\u2019re barely recognizable\u2019\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/12\/2\/20977931\/playstation-games-uncharted-crash-bandicoot-naughty-dog-last-of-us-anniversary-evolution\"},{\"title\":\"How the PlayStation\u2019s DualShock shaped modern controllers\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/12\/2\/20978071\/playstation-dualshock-controllers-modern-shape-design-ps5-25th-anniversary\"},{\"title\":\"How to play classic PlayStation games in 2019\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/12\/3\/20962845\/playstation-games-play-ps3-ps4-ps1-classics-old-how-to-ffvii\"},{\"title\":\"The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/12\/3\/20984028\/playstation-supercomputer-ps3-umass-dartmouth-astrophysics-25th-anniversary\"}]}'><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<figure><cite>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=66960X1514734&#038;xs=1&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifixit.com%2FTeardown%2FSony%2BPlayStation%2BTeardown%2F128089%3Futm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3D120319_PR_PlayStation1%2520Teardown%26utm_content%3D120319_PR_PlayStation1%2520Teardown%2BCID_a04604bdc602b6e2b8ec1b749744813a%26utm_source%3DCampaignMonitor%26utm_term%3Dtore%2520one%2520down&#038;referrer=theverge.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><em>iFixit<\/em><\/a><\/cite><br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<p>Beyond the cool factor of seeing the inside of an original&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2019\/12\/3\/20993374\/playstation-sony-ifixit-teardown-simple-hardware-internal-components-cd-drive\">Continue reading\u2026<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: iFixit The original PlayStation is turning 25 years old, and to celebrate, iFixit is turning its screwdrivers and plastic pry bars to the retro console in one of its signature teardowns. There aren\u2019t too many surprises hiding inside the 25-year-old device, but the teardown is still neat for a couple of reasons. First off,&#8230;<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/remember-how-simple-consoles-used-to-be-with-this-original-playstation-teardown\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":73743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Photo: iFixit The original PlayStation is turning 25 years old, and to celebrate, iFixit is turning its screwdrivers and plastic pry bars to the retro console in one of its signature teardowns. 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