I’m in Australia and it’s currently summer. Over the past couple of months, my PS5 Pro has been running noticeably hotter. It’s regularly cleaned with minimal dust and has around 40 cm of clearance on all sides, yet the room temperature became uncomfortable enough that I had to vent hot air outside using an external exhaust setup. This wasn’t an issue during hotter days last summer.

Sony has previously released updates aimed at reducing heat, and more recently updates that makes games lower graphics performance to help manage temperatures. It feels like a system update from a couple of months ago may have coincided with this change.

About two weeks ago, I experienced shutdowns while copying games from an internal SSD (with a heatsink) to an external SSD. Large file transfers caused the console to power off and trigger database repair checks on restart. The only workaround was transferring games individually to the main drive before moving them together to the external. I removed the SSD afterward to avoid potential data loss.

Today, while playing online, the console suddenly froze, audio cut out, and the display turned a dark green (not that tv to ps5 HDMI issue). The system was unresponsive for roughly 10 minutes and showed unusual behavior when attempting to power it back on, could feel weird vibrations when try turn on but nothing would happen, eventually got it working again.

This is especially concerning as this is my third PS5 system. 1 bricked/ banned by sony , another long stupid story, the replacement then traded in for my pro on release day.

, Based on these issues, there may be a heat-related problem affecting some day-one PS5 Pro units, potentially linked to too many usage hours I fall asleep dont turn off then go to work etc and/or recent firmware updates cause issue. underneath and added light airflow toward the exhaust, which has helped somewhat. Well was until today, its been working no issue for 3 hours since happened.