Video: What you need to know about Play station 5 (PS5)

The PS5 (or PlayStation 5) is the next-generation PlayStation console, to be released later this year, 2020.

During Sony’s ‘The Future of Gaming’ event on June 11, the PS5’s design and the PS5 games line-up, which includes the likes of Horizon Forbidden West and a remake of Demon’s Souls were looked at.

The PS5 design reveal was a surprise, and it included the surprise unveiling of the PS5 Digital Edition – a streamlined, all-digital console without a disc drive. It’s another sign that console manufacturers have their eye on a future without physical media. While Sony didn’t reveal the PS5 price or release date, we now know a lot of what we can expect when the PlayStation 5 launches later this year.

Check how beautiful the PS5 is here

In March this year, Sony revealed the DualSense PS5 controller, which includes a slew of impressive-sounding features like haptic feedback, adaptive triggers and a built-in mic. What really stands out about the DualSense controller, though, its radically different look and space-age black-and-white color scheme, and it turns out the PS5 design has a similar look – this marks a significant departure from its predecessors. 

Just as necessary as the DualSense Controller are the PS5 specs. Lead system architect Mark Cerny provided the public with a deep dive into the PS5’s system architecture, revealing the technical inner workings of the PS5.  

The short of it is that the PS5 is rocking an AMD Zen 2-based CPU with 8 cores at 3.5GHz, 16GB of GDDR6 memory and a custom RDNA 2 AMD GPU that puts out 10.28 TFLOPs of processing power.

When it comes to other PS5 features, Sony knows the next-gen console will have ray-tracing, a super-fast SSD, a built-in 4K Blu-ray player and will be backwards compatible with a huge swathe of the PS4’s game catalogue. It may even have voice assistant capabilities to tell you how long it will take to beat levels. So far, then, the PS5 is living up to the hype, but it’s the games that’ll make all the difference.

What you need to know about PlayStation 5 (PS5)

The Sony PS5 is the next-gen PlayStation console, replacing the PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro.

According to Sony, it will be released between October and December 2020. 

Loads of games can be played in PS5. They include a new Spider-Man entry, a Horizon Zero Dawn sequel, a Demon’s Souls remake, Resident Evil 8 and much more.

As the next-gen console, it is said to be compatible with current PSVR hardware, and there are also rumors of PSVR 2.

The PS4 and PS4 Pro were both $399 / £349 at launch, but PS5 will cost more, fact checked listed like $499.