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PlayStation just released the new PlayStation classic a tiny little miniature PlayStation that comes with two controllers and 20 games pre-installed onto the unit not too shabby PlayStation is definitely copying intended miniature classic consoles of course but no complaints here it's a fun way to bring back the classic game as people grew up playing it's time to take this tiny PlayStation apart and see what we're paying for let's get started in the box we get these two controllers which they're 1.5 meter cable lengths these are twice as long as the Nintendo classic controller cable which is nice the Nintendo classic came with 30 games though instead of twenty like this PlayStation just so you win some and you lose some one huge flaw is that even after paying 100 bucks for this PlayStation Classic it does not come with a wall plug PlayStation just assumes you have enough cell phone 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 disc location does not open up which is expected the PlayStation Classic only plays the 20 pre-loaded games flipping around we have the two 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 disks for the games that required more than one disc to play on the back of the console we have the HDMI output and the microUSB power port for that while adapter you have to supply yourself getting inside the PlayStation Classic is pretty straightforward with the five 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 air flow at the bottom vents either now that it's blocked the circuit board has four 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 has just lightly stuck into place with some thermal foam over the process sir it's sticky on both sides and now we get our inside look at the two 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 at Nintendo's I have one now though that's just much smaller than I anticipated the controller has eight screws in the back holding the two 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 microUSB cable so theoretically you could just buy a longer microUSB 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 goes 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 is 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 into a clear housing the rubber pad is what allows the buttons to be compressed and then springs them back up into place again it might sound like a broken record at this point but a transparent controller would look pretty fantastic I almost forgot to plug the microUSB 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 then sendou 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 Don for watching I'll see you around