Updated: September 17, 2020 7:36:00 am
Sony PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Digital Edition will compete directly with Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and Series S game consoles.
Sony announced the price and release date of the PlayStation 5, its next-generation gaming console, on Thursday. The PlayStation 5 will cost $ 499, while the digital edition of PS5 will cost $ 399. The Japanese tech giant said the PS5 will launch in the US, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea on November 12 and the “rest of the world” on November 19. Pre-orders for the next-gen game. The console will start today. Sony has yet to announce the price and release date of PS5 for the Indian market.
Both the PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition will compete with Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. The Xbox Series X and Series S are priced at $ 499 and $ 299, respectively. The Xbox Series X is a flagship console, while the Xbox Series S is a budget console without a physical disk drive.
Sony’s strategy is similar to Microsoft’s. It will also sell two new next-gen consoles on the market: one with a 4K Blu-ray drive and a digital edition that can only stream and download games from the PlayStation Store.
Sony will also sell a PS5 version with a disc drive.
The PlayStation 5 uses an eight-core AMD Zen 2 CPU and a custom GPU based on AMD RDNA 2, providing 10.28 teraflops of power with 36 compute units operating at 2.23 GHz each. The system memory will be 16 GB. The PS5 will have a solid state drive (SSD) and will support features such as real-time ray tracing. The machine will also support 4K graphics at a 120Hz refresh rate, 8K graphics, and 3D audio. Sony said that the PS5 will include backward compatibility for PS4 games. The new system ships with the DualSense controller.
Full PlayStation 5 Specifications
CPU: x86-64-AMD Ryzen Zen 2, eight cores, variable frequency, up to 3.5 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon RDNA 2-based graphics engine, variable frequency, up to 2.23 GHz (10.3 Tflops) ‘
System memory: 16GB GDDR6
SSD: 825 GB read bandwidth, 5.5 GB / s
Audio: Tempest 3D AudioTech
Game disc: Ultra HD Blu-ray, up to 100GB / disc
Video output: Support 4K 120Hz TVs, 8K TVs
In terms of accessories, the PlayStation 5 will support a number of peripherals. Sony’s new DualSense controller will cost $ 69.99 and the charging station, which can recharge two DualSense controllers at the same time, will cost you $ 29.99. Meanwhile, the Pulse 3D wireless headset is priced at $ 99.99 and the console’s multimedia remote will cost $ 29.99. Sony will also sell the HD camera for $ 59.99.
The PlayStation 5 is getting a host of high-profile games, including Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Devil May Cry 5, Fortnite, Demon’s Souls, Final Fantasy 16, Resident Evil Village, Gran Turismo 7, Deathloop, among others. The PS5 will also receive a God of War game called God of War: Ragnarok. It will arrive sometime in 2021. Hogwarts Legacy, a game from the open-world Harry Potter universe from Warner Bros, will also arrive on PS5 next year.
Sony has also unveiled the PlayStation Plus collection for PS5. It is essentially an answer to Xbox Game Pass. It is a subscription service that will allow users to play tons of PS4 games at no additional cost. The list of games that will be part of the PlayStation Plus collection is as follows: God of War, Bloodborne, Monster Hunter World, Final Fantasy XV, Fallout 4, Mortal Kombat X, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and more.
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