PlayStation 5
PlayStation 5
Leaked designs
PlayStation 5 (Officially abbreviated as PS5) is a next-generation home video game console developed by Sony Entertainment. It is the successor to the PlayStation 4 and is expected to hit the market during the 2020 holiday season. [1][12]
Overview
The existence of the PS5 was first announced by Mark Cerny in an April 2019 interview with Wired, in which he shared key details about the system's specs. Cerny said the PS5 will run on AMD's Ryzen with the 7 nm Zen 2 architecture, along with a Radeon Navi-family GPU which supports real-time ray-tracing rendering. It will have Solid-state drive storage to accomodate faster loading times and larger bandwidth. The new unit is said to be fully backwards-compatible with PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR titles. The console will also use 100GB optical disks for physical games, with an optical drive that doubles as a 4K Blu-Ray player. [2]
Cerny spoke with Wired for a second interview in October of 2019 where he shared more key details about the system. It will be able to support 100GB Blu-ray discs and 4K Blu-Ray video. State of the art controllers will have strong haptic feedback and adaptive triggers that can change resistance on certain mechanics, such as the action of pulling an arrow back in a bow or even the friction on the asphalt in a racing game. The console's user interface will also be completely revamped. You will also be able to download or delete portions of game data to free up space. For example, you could get rid of multiplayer mode in a game where you don't use it. [1]
Sony has leveraged incredibly fast solid-state drives to solve the issue of loading times. In a demonstration for Wired, Sony showed that a save load in "Spider-Man" that used to take 19 seconds on PS4 hardware takes a fraction of a second on new hardware. The SSD implementation allows for a time saving feature where users can jump into a particular point in a game from the homescreen. So if there is a double experience event going on on a particular map in a game, users can now load from there without going through the home screen or introductory menus. Mark Cerny said: [1][5]
"Multiplayer game servers will provide the console with the set of joinable activities in real time.
Single-player games will provide information like what missions you could do and what rewards you might receive for completing them—and all of those choices will be visible in the UI.
As a player you just jump right into whatever you like."
In October of 2019, images of a leaked PlayStation 5 dev kit found their way to the Dutch website, LetsGoDigital. [6]