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The PlayStation 5 now has a price and a release date.
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Ready for the Playstation 5? You can now reserve the new console “in selected stores” for $ 500 (£ 450, AU $ 750) for the Blu-ray equipped version, or $ 400 (£ 360, AU $ 600) for the digital-only PS5. Both consoles will ship on November 12 in the US, with pre-orders online at some of the major retailers, including Walmart, Best Buy, GameStop, and Target, already starting (and selling out quickly).
Wednesday’s reveal finally gives a firm price and release date for Sony’s next PlayStation beyond the vague “holiday 2020” time frame the company previously used when describing its next system. Sony initially said pre-orders would begin Thursday before retailers decided to go ahead a day early.
Microsoft beat Sony at the plate, announcing rival Xbox Series X and S series earlier this month. Xbox Series X and Series S will arrive on November 10 for $ 500 and $ 300 respectively.
While Sony said the discless PS5 will have the same chips and performance as its Blu-ray-equipped cousin, Microsoft’s Xbox Series S is designed as a less powerful brother Series X.
In addition to the price of the console and the release date, Sony also detailed the prices of the accessories, including $ 70 for a standalone DualSense wireless controller and $ 100 for its Pulse 3D wireless headphones. The launch title price for the PS5 will vary between $ 50 and $ 70, depending on the game.
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The price limits a long series of announcements from Sony and Microsoft, during which companies leak information about their competitor consoles throughout the year. They chose this approach in part to highlight new technology in their respective devices, promising faster load times, more detailed environments, and more immersive audio.
As companies talked about their devices, they also showed their different approaches to what they see as the future of gaming. Sony has gone a traditional route, discussing how its new games will be specially tuned for the new hardware and encouraging gamers to buy the new device to get these new experiences. Microsoft, meanwhile, focused on compatibility and promised that many of its games would be played on its new Xbox devices as well as older ones.
The price news is the latest in a busy summer for Sony. In its virtual event in june, the company showed off the white and blue designs of its new consoles, as well as providing a first look at a lots of new games even Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Gran Turismo 7 and West horizon forbidden.
Spider-Man: Miles Morales will be a launch title for the PS5, starting at $ 50 for the standard edition or $ 70 for a “definitive” edition that also includes a remastered copy of the original PS4 game Spider-Man, as well as its complement. in DLC.
Sony also took advantage of Wednesday’s event to announce PlayStation Plus Collection, a library of hit PS4 games like God of War and Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. The games will be available to subscribers to its $ 9.99 per month PlayStation Plus gaming service, which offers more than 100 games. Sony did not previously offer a direct competitor to Microsoft’s $ 14.99 per month Xbox Games Pass Ultimate subscription, which offers access to many of the games in its library on console and PC, as well as the ability to stream many of those titles too.
Specifications for the PS5 include custom AMD CPUs and GPUs capable of outputting graphics at 8K or 4K resolution and 120fps, as well as 16GB of GDDR6 RAM and 825GB of high-performance solid-state storage that should allow for load times. significantly faster.
