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Ī major game library showcase had been planned for June 4, 2020, but was postponed until June 11 due to the George Floyd protests. Digital Foundry spoke with Cerny in detail and published a 'deep dive' on April 2.

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Full specifications were given in an online presentation by Cerny and published by Sony and Digital Foundry on March 18, 2020. At CES 2020, Sony unveiled the official logo for the platform, which follows the similar minimalist styling of the previous PlayStation consoles and brand. The current hardware specifications were revealed in October 2019. In a second Wired magazine interview in October 2019, Sony said it intended to ship its next-generation console worldwide by the end of 2020.

In early 2019, Sony's financial report for the quarter ending March 31, 2019, affirmed that new next-generation hardware was in development but would ship no earlier than April 2020. Marketing and releaseĬerny first publicly described the new console in an interview with Wired magazine in April 2019.

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Jim Ryan, the CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, stated that Sony had researched the feasibility of a 'low priced, reduced spec' version of the PlayStation 5, like what Microsoft had done with its Xbox Series X and its lower-power counterpart the Xbox Series S and concluded that they believed such consoles do not fare well, becoming obsolete too fast. An important goal was to find ways to reduce loading time, particularly in games that stream or dynamically load new game areas as the player moves through the game world.

Slow data rates placed limits on the size of data being loaded into the game, the physical location of data on the storage medium, and the duplication of data across the medium in order to reduce load times. Cerny said several developers, including Epic Games' Tim Sweeney, told him that standard I/O speed of hard disk drives was now a limiting factor in pushing game development. In the development of the PlayStation 5, a key issue was the length of loading times for games. This feedback was fed into the priorities for the console development team. This entailed regularly visiting Sony's first-party developers at two-year intervals to find out what concerns they had with shortcomings in Sony's current hardware and how such hardware could be improved in console refreshes or for the next generation. The lead architect of the PlayStation console line, Mark Cerny, implemented a two-year feedback cycle after the launch of the PlayStation 4. Mark Cerny, the PlayStation 5's chief architect Other features include the DualSense controller with haptic feedback and backward compatibility with the majority of PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR games. The PlayStation 5's main hardware features include a solid-state drive customized for high-speed data streaming to enable significant improvements in storage performance, an AMD GPU capable of 4K resolution display at up to 120 frames per second, hardware-accelerated ray tracing for realistic lighting and reflections, and the Tempest Engine allowing for hardware-accelerated 3D audio effects.

The two variants were launched simultaneously. The Digital Edition lacks this drive, allowing it to serve as a lower-cost model for those who prefer to buy games through digital download. The base model includes an optical disc drive compatible with Ultra HD Blu-ray discs. The PS5 is part of the ninth generation of video game consoles, along with Microsoft's Xbox Series X and Series S consoles, which were released in the same month.

Announced in 2019 as the successor to the PlayStation 4, the PS5 was released on November 12, 2020, in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, North America, and South Korea, with worldwide release following a week later. The PlayStation 5 ( PS5) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Digital (2022 revision): 3.4 kilograms (7.5 lb)Īlmost all PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR games.Digital (launch model): 3.9 kilograms (8.6 lb).Base (launch model): 4.5 kilograms (9.9 lb).

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