PS5: Release Date, Launch Games, And Everything You Need To Know About The Sony PlayStation 5 Ps5 Hard Drive

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April 12, 2020

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We're still on track for a PS5 release, despite everything that's going on in the world. Yes, it's time to get excited about the next-generation of PlayStation consoles, especially now we've had more official news from Sony itself on the PlayStation 5. Those PS5 for now, even with growing concerns and event cancellations around COVID-19. 

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The biggest news takeaways from today's PS5 event though can be captured here:

• has pegged the console's launch down for November 20 of next year, simultaneously stating that it'll be selling for the day one price of $499 in the United States. For comparison, the PS4's initial cost was $399, which brings us nicely onto our next point...

  PS5 cost

  How much will the PS5 cost?

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   sources who suggest that the scarcity of particular internal parts in the PS5 is driving the price up on the production line, and Sony may choose to pass the buck onto consumers. The sources say the current unit price of the PS5 is about $450, which some in the company worry may already seem too steep to some potential buyers.

  In the GDC-style presentation from Sony's Mark Cerny, he said the company has chosen to go with an 825GB SSD internal hard drive to try and keep costs low for the next-gen console, stating that:

  "It's tempting to add more, but flash certainly doesn't come cheap, and we have a responsibility to our gaming audience to be cost-effective when it comes to what we put in the console."

  PS5 logo

  The PS5 logo is rather familiar

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  At CES 2020, Sony revealed the official , and as you can see above, it's not exactly much of a surprise. It's exactly the same as the PS3 and PS4 logos, but with a rather slick five at the end. 

  PS5 specs

  PS5 specs and performance: What technology can we expect?

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  Sony has already confirmed that the PS5 will be running on an AMD CPU chip that's based on the third generation of AMD's Ryzen line. It'll be an eight-core, custom-made, beast based on the company's new 7nm Zen 2 microarchitecture. The CPU is a custom variant of AMD Radeon's Navi family, and will support ray tracing - an effect that is a staple of Hollywood, and one that's beginning to appear in high-end PC processors and the Nvidia RTX gaming line. 

  It's admittedly disconcerting to think a next-generation console could be running on three-year-old hardware by the time it comes out. Fortunately, in June of last year, a few industry sources speaking with :

  • CPU: 8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz (variable frequency)
  • GPU: 10.28TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz (variable frequency)
  • GPU Architecture: Custom RDNA 2
  • Memory/Interface: 16GB GDDR6 / 256=bit
  • Memory Bandwidth: 448GB/s
  • Internal Storage: Custom 825GB SSD
  • IO Throughput: 5.5GB/s (Raw), Typical 8-9GB/s (compressed)
  • Expandable Storage: NVMe SSD Slot
  • External Storage: USB HDD Support
  • Optical Drive: 4K UHD Blu-Ray Drive

  PS5 design

  What will the PS5 look like? 

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  While we're likely quite some time away before Sony shows off the final box design of its PS5, we do have a decent idea of what it might look like sat on our TV shelves, thanks to that may or may not be compatible for the PS5. Current bets have it down as an external SSD that can be slotted into the console for easy memory management of your PS5 games, but - again - it's entirely possible this has nothing to do with the PS5 at all, so take its design and appearance with a pinch of salt. 

  DualSense PS5 controller

  What is the PS5 controller like?  

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  The PS5 controller, AKA the DualSense, is the successor to the DualShock line. Sony abruptly earlier in 2019 to develop advanced streaming and cloud technology together. Apparently Sony aims to use the "new partnerships to achieve growth and scale faster than ever before". 

  Apparently this very same technology will be used to "transition our community to next-gen faster and more seamlessly than ever before", particularly when it comes to backwards compatibility for PS4 games. 

  PS5 backwards compatibility

  Will there be PS5 backwards compatibility for my PS4 games (or older)?

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  Sony has confirmed that the PS5 will be backwards compatible with your PS4 games. According to the .

  PS5 VR

  Will there be a PS5 PS VR?

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  But what of PlayStation VR? In case there were any doubts, Mark Cerny confirmed PS5 compatibility for the original PSVR unit in his interview with Wired. However, he stopped short of suggesting a next-generation PlayStation VR headset is in the works. 

  "I won't go into the details of our VR strategy today," he said, "beyond saying that VR is very important to us and that the current PSVR headset is compatible with the new console."

  However, , or watch below for our latest episode of Dialogue Options.