PS5’s released date confirmed
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- Oct 22, 2019
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Updated: Oct 28, 2019
Oct. 14, 2019
PlayStation 5, Sony’s next generation console, was announced to be released in holidays 2020, according to SIE CEO Jim Ryan on Oct. 8. It will feature haptic feedback and adaptive triggers on the controller that provides more immersive gaming experiences as well as improvements in raw read speed, graphics and storage efficiency.
Keeping gamers worldwide on their toes as Sony confirms on October 8th in their official blog that the release date of the successor of the PlayStation 4 will be set on 2020’s holidays.
Those who were impressed by the PS4’s controller equipped with a touchpad can also look forward to the new PS5 controller as Sony’s CEO Jim Ryan reveals their vision for it, saying “One of our goals with the next generation is to deepen the feeling of immersion when you play games, and we had the opportunity with our new controller to reimagine how the sense of touch can add to that immersion.” To that end, there are two key innovations. First, they’re adapting haptic feedback that allows a true feeling of a broader range of feedback, so crashing into a wall in a race car feels much different than making a tackle on the football field.
The second innovation is called the adaptive triggers, which have been incorporated into the trigger buttons (L2/R2). Developers can program the resistance of the triggers so that you feel the tactile sensation of drawing a bow or accelerating an off-road vehicle through rocky terrain. In combination with the haptics, this can produce a powerful experience that better simulates various actions.
Apart from that, in a feature article by Gamespot on the PS5, Sony has also been surprisingly forthright when it comes to the specifications of their newest console. Containing an AMD chip that has a CPU based on the third-generation Ryzen and equipped with eight cores of the seven-nanometer Zen 2 microchip, the console can definitely support 8K gameplay assuming the corresponding televisions can catch up with it. Graphics will be driven by a custom version of Radeon's Navi line that is stated to support ray-racing, a technique that has become a trend in movies and video games.
Price wise, lead architect of the PS4 Mark Cerny stated that “I believe that we will be able to release it at an SRP [suggested retail price] that will be appealing to gamers in light of its advanced feature set,” so gamers can rest assured that the newest console will be affordable.
Gamers who were disappointed by the lack of backwards compatibility in the PS4 can also celebrate as Cerny once again confirms that the PS5 will be backwards compatible with PS4 games as the internal architectures of the two consoles are built similarly. Additionally, PS4 games will load even faster on the PS5 with solid state drive (SSD) equipped instead of hard drives which are equipped in current consoles, as Sony demonstrated faster loading times during an investor presentation in May this year captured by Wall Street Journal reporter Takashi Mochizuki https://twitter.com/mochi_wsj/status/1130645990627631105?s=20
Another innovation Sony has made in terms of game storage other than implementing solid state drives is “not having to download the entirety of the game if one does not desire to.” Simply put, if someone only wishes to play the single-player aspect of the game, he can choose to download the single-player part only instead of having to waste an additional 20 to 30 gigabytes of precious storage space on his PS5. This is a significant innovation because storage space on consoles are usually constrained to around 500 gigabytes. One can even choose to only leave the multi-player parts of the game in their drive once they have finished single-player parts, saving up to an estimated amount of 20 gigabytes of space across the game’s entire life span.
In alliance with The Playing for the Planet alliance’s aims to make the video game industry more environmentally friendly, Sony announced that the next generation of its hardware will use dramatically less power when placed into suspend or sleep mode. The company is also conducting a carbon footprint assessment and looking into more energy-efficient data centers.
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