PS5 is coming.
SonySony has made it official. The PlayStation 5 is coming at the end of 2020, according to a release on the PlayStation Japan website. The US PlayStation site also has a release confirming the release window of the PS5 for the US as the 2020 holiday season.
Details of the PS5 were made available to Wired Tuesday. The US release will be holiday 2020, and the new PlayStation will not only be a graphical upgrade but also a rethinking of certain aspects of a console.
For starters, Sony is changing how the PS5 will handle storage. The new solid-state drive (SSD) will not only make games boot up faster and reduce loading times, but it will come with a new way of handling games installation. Users will be able to install just a game's multiplayer or single-player campaign instead of installing the whole game.
"Rather than treating games like a big block of data," Cerny says, "we're allowing finer-grained access to the data."
Another big change will come with the console's controller. Instead of "rumble" technology, controllers will not use haptic feedback for a more varied vibration when playing a game. The left and right triggers (L2/R2) will also use adaptive technology making certain actions feel more realistic such as pulling the string of a bow or the recoil of a gun. There will also be new speakers in the controllers as well as a USB-C port.
The PS5 will get a bump in graphics including using ray-tracing, which is a new way of handling lighting effects in a game. The console's GPU will support the new tech.
Sony also confirmed that PS5 dev kits are also in the hand of developers who are working on new games for the console's release.
Originally published on Oct. 8, 5:23 a.m. PT.
Update, 5:53 a.m. PT: Adds more background details.
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