PS5 Launch Date
There have been many speculations about the launch of Playstation 5, there are 100's of videos on youtube about the specs and possible features of PlayStation 5 but none of them were official, most of them were fan-made and the others were possible features that may be included in the new release but nothing was official until recently Sony confirmed the PS5 release date i.e holiday 2020 (aka between October and December 2020)setting up a battle royale between the PS5 and Xbox Project Scarlett for Christmas 2020.
Previously, in an interview with Wired, Cerny had only said that the PlayStation 5 would not be available before April 2020. Now the company has finally gone on record with an end of the year PS5 release.
A recent leak had suggested the PS5 would be launched on the 12th of February 2020. It's rumored the console might be unveiled at an event called 'Playstation Meeting 2020'.
PS5 Confirmed Specifications
- The PS5 will play 4K Blu-rays. Cerny initially only confirmed the PS5 will have an optical disc drive, but has now, according to Wired, confirmed the presence of a 4K Blu-ray player.
- The PS5 will support 8K video, at least to an extent. The PlayStation 5 will ship with an AMD Ryzen chip — a 7nm chip on Zen 2 architecture — and a GPU from the Radeon Navi-family. It will also come with SSD storage. The promise from this trio of hardware is fast load times, large bandwidth capabilities and oodles of graphics grunt.
- The next-gen console will be compatible with current PSVR hardware and there are rumors of PSVR 2. PS5 is VR compatible.
- To help mitigate installation times brought on by huge file sizes, Sony will make use of the SSD and allow you to only install the parts of games you want to play, such as a competitive multiplayer mode or campaign. Games can also be loaded to specific modes from the dashboard, so you can join your friend in a match without having to go through the entire starting process like you would on games for PS4.
- Mark Cerny confirmed that the PlayStation 5 will be backward compatible with PS4 and PS VR games. This will not include PS3, Ps2, or PS1 games according to the BBC. The reason for this, Cerny cited, was the PS5 and PS4’s similar architecture. Sony later said it planned to use backward compatibility to help players transition into the next-generation system from the PS4. The entire PS4 library, including PSVR games, will be supported by the PS5. That much is known. But there are now games being developed specifically for this new PlayStation 5 console generation and the extra power it's likely to offer.
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PS5 Cost
- The PS5 price is likely to be under wraps until closer to launch at the back end of 2020. The original PlayStation and PS2 launched at £299/$299, the PS3 started at £425/$499 and the more recent PS4 came in at £350/$399. The sensible guess for the PS5 right now is that it will sit just above the PS4, perhaps around £499/$499.There can be various models of PS5. The PS5 Pro will cost around $100-$150 more than the basic PS5 console. The report states that Sony is taking this approach because it has "acknowledged the interest in a high-end model and wants to give players what they want right from the beginning of the generation".
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