We haven't actually seen the PS5 yet, but we do know quite a bit about it. Sony all but revealed the box itself in April, when it saw fit to outline a number of key features. That information was then published in an exclusive Wired article. It was all a little strange, but hey, it was a move that's had people talking about the PS5 for over a month now.
As part of Sony's latest investor relations report, the company has reconfirmed all that we know. We've included a picture of the official graphic below:
As the image shows, Sony is keen to focus on a number of, again, key features. From 8K support to backwards compatibility, we find ourselves wondering what the next-gen console's marketing campaign will look like.
Of course, the slide also highlights what we don't know right now, including the release date, pricing, and launch games. Naturally, there are still some big questions that need answered -- arguably the most important ones -- but with the PS5 supposedly set to launch in 2020, we may still have a long way to go before we get all the details.
How do you think the PS5 is shaping up? Is the future looking bright for Sony? Show us the next generation in the comments section below.
[source sony.net]
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But what discs i mean will it be the 4K blurays. 😁
Really hope it retains external storage support. I've filled up over half of my 8TB EX-HDD. I'm certain the games will be even bigger next gen.
If the PS5 uses SATA3 internal then there are 4TB max SSD's around, albeit very expensive. However if the rumours are true for the use of PCIE NVME drives then upgradability will be very limited AND expensive.
'the PS5 supposedly set to launch in 2021,'
You mean 2020?
ps5 will be 12.9 teraflops word up son
ps5 should be a 4tb of space .and I would love the ps5 to launch with colors console .like a all red ps5.a green ps5.a gold ps5.you know how much more money Sony will make if it launch with colors ps5 console with a matching controller.word up son
@playstation1995 If i was Sony i would add just a little More to that to 14.7 teraflops
What is Ray Tracing?
@ZeD You get a guy called Ray with the console every time you press a certain button he pops up on screen and traces the screen to give you a real life screenshot to put up on your bedroom wall.
@Paranoimia I think it's moreso them anticipating selling it at a loss initially
"arguably the most important ones"
I don't think they are the most important ones.
1. Date
2. Price
3. Games
4. UX
5. Country Rollout
While all of this information is nice, with the exception of (maybe) price, I don't think that any of it is really that important.
@ZeD
It's software that can render hyper realistic graphics without the need of very expensive graphics cards.
Much like emulation software on PC it is not as effective as dedicated hardware but if done right there will be little difference.
With indications that Microsoft is going to drop details of their next system at E3, I wonder if Sony is hanging back a bit to counter more effectively. Going first is great, but undercutting the competition and learning from their mistakes may be more valuable. Regardless, a more powerful machine doesn’t necessarily trump a great games lineup as the current gen shows.
@thedevilsjester
Release date, price and launch games ARE important. Without a release date, I couldn't care less about improved specs even if it's backward compatible. Price will matter to many people and will determine whether they can afford it or not. And games are the reason to buy a new console. Release a HZD sequel and I'll buy it day one. Launch it with FIFA, call of duty and fortnite and I will lose all interest until new games are released.
I don't even know what a terraflop is and think that ray tracing is copying a drawing of a female Jedi. As long as there's more quality games then that's good enough for me.
@ZeD It is basically real-time ray-traced reflections and refractions. It is part of DX, and baked in updated next Gen engines. Been around for a while but now you have hardware acceleration for it.
I think the system should have a lot of ram to hold better looking textures. 16GB at least. If you look at the emulation and modding scene, old games are being made super gorgeous with high-resolution textures.
Ray tracing will be really interesting. More and more I'm starting to think Sony can sell this for $299.
@Rhaoulos "And games are the reason to buy a new console."
Of course, but history has shown us that consoles launch with mostly garbage. If you want great titles to be available, you are most certainly going to be waiting for awhile. Its unimportant not because games don't matter, but because its a question to which we already know the answer.
@Rhaoulos "Price will matter to many people and will determine whether they can afford it or not."
Yes and no. On launch day/year only those with a reasonable disposable income will buy the console. Since consoles generally have garbage (with a few exceptions) released at launch, you are buying a promise of more to come. Thats not something that those with a limited (or no) disposable income generally spend their money on, regardless of price. They wait until its cheaper, and the value proposition (with a huge selection of cheap games) exists. I don't think this matters as much as people think it does. The PS3 was extremely overpriced, yet its lifetime sales (with one year less on the market) rivaled its much cheaper competitor, and within the launch ~6 months there were people paying thousands of USD on a PS3 (I payed $900 for mine) because of the supply constraint, they didn't care much about price at all.
@Rhaoulos "Without a release date, I couldn't care less about improved specs even if it's backward compatible."
This doesn't make any sense. Is 0.8 seconds loading time vs > 10 seconds any less of an improvement over the PS4 if its launched in 2020 or 2021? We are still comparing to the PS4 (and indirectly Xbox), not to PC's. Its an impressive improvement over the PS4, even if it released in 2025. The date doesn't change this. If you care about performance vs price, you should probably get into PC gaming, because console gaming is never going to scratch that itch.
And BC is as important now as it would be in a year or two or three. I would argue that it gets more important as time goes on (as your library grows) but those of us that will buy it at launch likely have a huge library already that its important to support.
You haven't seen the PS5 yet??? I have...in my Dreams and the PS6 and 7 and 8 and...
@Areus I agree.a 14.7 teraflops will look amazing.the ps5 exclusive will look legendary on a ps5.word up son
@GADG3Tx87 i'm sure they will support external mechanical drives and might even have a spare internal bay for a second drive as well... BUT, you will not get the same performance and won't benefit from the beastly load reductions — that goes without saying. but yea, i see a zero chance of sony locking the user behind a 500gb SSD drive with no other options to upgrade as that would be far too limiting.
Bc and ssd is the most important things, I just need to know the price, if it’s $500 and below I’m in day one
@ApostateMage
(giga/tera/peta)flops is a way to determine the raw computing power of processing unit. It is the number of operation per second a CPU can process. So 1 teraflops means one trillion operation per second.
Ray tracing is the new thing that came with the last generation of GPU. It is a new way to process lighting and reflection to make it a lot more realistic. Software support sucks and requires a lot of processing power, but hardware support for Ray Tracing doesn't (like nVidia RTX series and the PS5).
Man I hope this 8k fad dies faster than HD DVD. It's stupid and 100% marketing trash
@JoeBlogs I didn't say they were not important to people, I said that they were not the most important information we can get on the system (as the article stated).
There tend to be three types of console gamers, the early adopters that know they are paying a premium, and are more than willing. The late adopters that get a system towards the end of its life cycle, and the "middle" adopters.
None of this information is important to the late adopters they will get it many years later, after a huge library of games is out, likely used on the cheap.
So the question is, are we talking about early adopters (first year or two), or the middle adopters? If we are talking early adopters, those that will set the pace of the generation, then that information, while nice, is not very important. For example I will buy a PS5 if it releases for $400 or $1000, if it releases in 2020 or 2025, if it releases with the best selection of games ever, or it releases with no games, so long as 1. It has Backwards Compatibly, and 2. It uses physical media.
Different things matter to those in the middle, but they wont get it immediately and there will likely be price drops, more titles, and bundles by then, so none of the information they get now will be of any use when they actually go to buy it.
I am not trying to say these things don't matter to people (and I am sure there are a few that straddle the categories) but for the success and viability of the system (overall) that information is not the most important, and for me, personally, the information that is missing holds little value.
All sounds very promising but also very pricey, let's wait and see I suppose.
@thedevilsjester dude, get over yourself 😂
It's all important.
@daveofduncan I never said it wasn't important, did you read anything I said? I was it wasn't THE MOST important, which has been the discussion from the beginning (its what is stated in the article)
Sony, do yourself a favour and don't get hung up on 8k...
3D Audio. About time too, a must have in a good FPS. Would be useful in VR too. Sadly I will probably be waiting for the PS5 slim, with the price drop.
Hardware means nothing if you don't have the games and currently Sony is doing a very fine job driving people towards Nintendo due to Sony censuring of games.
Country rollout? Not available worldwide from the start in 2020? BIG LUL
I'm hoping that I can play all my ps1 games I downloaded from ps3! Must be 20 plus, Without having to purchase them again it would be great! Most games aren't worth the space on my hard drive recently so I'm looking forward to a bit of retro gaming with a few cans and a bit of oasis!
Backwards compatibility... how far? Give me at least as far as PS3 and you'll have my attention.
8K? Lol that's not gonna happen. Just bought an OLED65C8V, no way I'm upgrading to 8K yet. A higher resolution doesn't make much difference, HDR was the big leap, not resolution. I'll wait for whatever the next big leap is.
@Heavyarms55 only PS4 games currently they confirmed before.
@playstation1995
They sold just fine this gen without a purple and pink ps4. WORD UP DAD
@thedevilsjester
Wrong. People will upgrade if they have to! If they don't have to, I guarantee that a lot of people will be just fine sticking with the PS4.
If the PS5 does have external support which it should that would mean that we ether have to deal with the games loading slower on the external or buy a external ssd which is going to be very expensive
This thing could literally be a toaster, if it has as many great experiences as the ps4 does, sign me up (when I'm not broke).
@BrettAwesome purple and pink.hahah.im talking about.red.and green .gold playa.that will sell a lot of ps4.word up son
@thedevilsjester all u pc players are stuck in one chair looing at ur great monitor that is overly priced when u can relax on the bloody couch play what u want regardless of fps and full 4k most people just want to enjoy a game chill with friends and family and u can't exactly bring ur pc over to a mates house quickly. So in all u pc players are bigots when it comes to actually understanding entertainment value. Who cares about pcs I don't. As does most ps fans.
@BrettAwesome I never said otherwise. I would love for the PS4 generation to last another 4-5 years before a PS5 launches.
@Bobskie77 What? I am a console gamer through and through, not sure where this is coming from.
@thedevilsjester
Yes you did!
"It could be a make-or-break for people, but it might also be positioned in a way that makes sense, for example if all PS5 games were ALSO compatible with the PS4 so that the PS5 was just another (bigger) refresh like the Pro, then the price is less of an issue because people will eventually upgrade"
No they won't ! Not if they don't have to. Besides, you're killing a whole gen by gimping it, if all the games have to run on PS4 too. There will be plenty of games the PS4 simply can't run, because of the weak cpu.
Maybe you're just not quite as good at this market analyst stuff as you would like. I mean, it does come across as slightly self important, the way you choose to "teach to the masses". It just rubs me the wrong way, but maybe it's just me. I just think your arguments have to be rock solid if you do.
@BrettAwesome "Yes you did!"
No, I didn't. I said that people would eventually upgrade when the benefits of the upgrade outweigh the cost of the upgrade (and this tipping point is different for everyone), even if they are not required to do so. If the PS4 never came out (and all games for it were designed instead for the PS3), I would still be enjoying my PS3 to this day, with no worries.
If what you claim is true, no one would have bought the PS4 Pro, or the Xbox One X, or would upgrade their gamings PC's beyond the minimum required. Most people will eventually upgrade when the benefits of the upgrade outweigh the cost of the upgrade, even if they are not required to do so.
You are not killing the whole gen by "gimping it", the PC world has been doing this for its entire life, with pretty good success. Of all the problems PC gaming has, being able to play your games at higher resolutions, with more effects, and more options, if your computer can handle it, is not one of them. This is sincerely the path I hope Sony takes with the PS5, and the fact that they are going out of their way to not say PS5, leads me to believe that they have something unique planned. I hope that that something is a perpetual upgrade cycle where new games must support at least, say, the last 3, upgrade cycles (but could theoretically support more if they choose).
Does the chequered flag on the "games" section indicate Gran Turismo?
@ZeD realistic reflections of light
Fake graphic, they never mentioned anything about the Gpu beside the fact that is based on Navi, which I could've guessed anyways
Happy to hear this has been officially backed up by Sony themselves.
@AFCC "Country rollout? Not available worldwide from the start in 2020? BIG LUL"
I know this is a reply to a two week sold comment, but it caught my attention.
The PS4 didn't have a worldwide roll out in 2013/14, and that was 6 years ago. No reason to think it's funny if the PS5 doesn't as well. They can only make so many at a time.
PS4 Release dates
NA: November 15, 2013
PAL: November 29, 2013
Japan: February 22, 2014
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4
@rjejr it's ridiculous and after the PS4's success it's even MORE ridiculous. If they don't do a full release in all 3 major markets I'll be disappointed.
@AFCC I'd be surprised if they did a simultaneous release. The Nintendo Switch has been devouring the PS4 in Japan. 2 years of Switch sales outsold 5 years of PS4 sales. (I think Pushsquare forgot that article) Sony is all about the western market now, they'll likely make Japan wait again, and Japan likely won't care. The million or so consoles they could have ready for Day 1 in Japan will sell faster in the US.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/05/nintendo_switch_overtakes_ps4s_lifetime_sales_in_japan2
Not that I would mind a global release, I don't care really as long as I get mine without having to wait, but I think "The PlayStation" will be very expensive and sell first and best in the West.
@rjejr I honestly don't understand the crazyness in Japan for the switch. Mine has been in a bag since I finished Odyssey, it's a good console with a handful of cool games but anything else PS4 is way way better, can't even compare. But Japan likes crappy games sometimes and they don't care at all about graphics for example...
@AFCC I get the impression nobody ever goes home in Japan, they just work all day then wander the streets all night looking at their phones, 3DS or Switch. Which is why Sony may be in no rush to launch The Playstation there same date as the West.
@rjejr lmao that seems so true. Also their houses are super tiny and they probably can't fit a ps4 there
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