Vertical or horizontal

What's the best way to keep your PS4, vertical or horizontal?

I'd say whatever floats your boat but I'd keep it horizontal, no sense in me setting it up for a random fall.

Well this is a great question as I'm not using mine yet. When referring to the 360 it ran louder and hotter when vertical so my question would be does the PS4 perform any different depending on position?

I was actually doing some research on this a couple days ago. I keep mine horizontal by the way.

Ill just copy and paste some info.

Horizontal

Pros:Quiet Disc Drive Gamers who prefer a quiet disc drive when playing games, placing your PS4 in the horizontal position will give you that. Just think about the laws of gravity when placing the disc. You put less stress to the disc drive when placed horizontally opposed to the vertical position.

Provides More Cooling Now that every game console produces more heat than previous ones, it’s important for the PS4 to stay cool at all times to prevent the internal parts from frying or melting. If you want your console to get as much air to the inside, putting it horizontally will give the PS4 cool air as both sides of the PS4 have an intake vent.

Cons:Slightly Wobbly If you decide to put the PS4 in horizontal position, you will notice that it doesn’t that if you push down the side where the Sony logo is, it will slightly wobble. It looks like the side where the Sony logo is placed doesn’t have much of rubber to put it in a stationery position. The wobbly problem isn’t really a big deal, but can get annoying if you have OCD. To fix this problem, simply get a stack of thin paper/index cards/or post it notes and put it under the side where the Sony logo is.

Takes a lot space The amount of space the PS4 takes when placed horizontally has always been a problem by everyone who doesn’t have a wide entertainment shelf. IF you have small space to put your PS4, your best bet is to really put in a vertical position.

Verrtical

Pros:Saves Space If you don’t have enough space to put your PlayStation 4, putting the console in vertically is something you will need to consider.

Stylish Putting your PlayStation 4 in a vertical position makes your console look very stylish due to its design. If you want to show off your console to your friends and that led light that lights up when powered on, then put it in vertical position.

Cons:Risk of Tipping Over One risk that everyone needs to consider when putting your console in vertical position is tipping it down. If you have a dog, cat, or a little kid who loves playing around, there’s a risk that you will tip over the console and break something.

Not as Quiet When I put my PS4 in a vertical position, I noticed that the console isn’t as quiet as Sony promised it to be. The noise coming out from the console is from the fan that kicks in very hard and the disc drive when reading discs.

Can get very warm Comparing the temperature from the horizontal and vertical position, I noticed that the vertical position runs a little bit warmer. Remember, when you put the PS4 in a vertical position, you are taking one in-take vent out since you have to put a stand on its side to make your PS4 more secure. When this happens, you are only allowing one in-take vent to get as much cold air from the outside to the inside, making your console run a little warmer. Well, this will result in fans kicking at high speed, making your console run louder.

Makes since and thank you for the advice. My issue is space so that's why I prefer vertical. But I did notice that even in the vertical position with 360 if the games were fully installed it was relatively quiet but temperature seemed to be the same. I will probably keep PS4 horizontal just because I don't want to stress the PS4 more than necessary being that we don't know the reliability as of yet. At this rate with the PS4 running so loud I wonder how hot and loud the PS4 slim will run? I remember the PS2 ran dangerously hot.

mine is vertical for the time being.... until i finish all my PS3 games and sell it i dont have the room to fit it horizontal.

i will agree with it being noisy when vertical. the disc drive can get pretty loud.

horizontal since it's safer

i wanted vertical for the looks, but if its more loud then when horizantal, ill just stick with horizontal and save myself 15 euro :)

Never ever will i EVER go Verticle. My brother had an Xbox and he had it Verticle and it got knocked down by accident. Wouldnt want that happening to my Lovely PS4