Regardless of the ongoing debates among PS5 players, one small-town tech repair shop posted a TikTok sharing the evidence of damage caused by storing the console vertically.

"I know Sony says that you can, and I know it's got this nice flat base so it looks and it sits just fine, but you are going to kill your PS5," one of the employees says in the video before showing the issue.

The liquid metal on the heat sync for the APU will pool to one side (typically the bottom) when the console is stored vertically, leaving dry spots on the APU and potentially leading to the console shutting off randomly during play or breaking altogether. The APU is an incredibly hard piece of hardware to replace in the PS5, meaning it's not a simple DIY project should your console develop this issue.

Despite the clear damage shown in the video, the comments are filled with people rebutting that storing their console vertically ever caused damage. In fact, some of the comments suggest that they have further problems with it overheating if they store the PS5 on its side.

"My friend has his PS5 horizontal and he's the one going thru the issues of his PS5 overheating and turning off whilst mine's been fine standing up," one commenter said.