There is a new PlayStation to come. Whether it's the PS5, PlayStation 5, or anything else, Sony's new gaming rig is confirmed by Mark Cerny, the lead architect. of the next-generation console. The PS4 consoles (PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro) officially reach the end of their life cycle (direct from Sony), so thoughts inevitably turn to the PS5. And now, Sony has finally started to reveal what would follow. Even though we don't know exactly what to expect from the PS5 (or if it will be its name), we do know that the alarming and compelling rumors, wishes, and "revealed" results as we get closer to the console reveal an important part of the pleasure. With that in mind, we've rounded up everything we want most from the PlayStation 5, from what we now know about Cerny's reveal interview, and what its distinguishing features are upon arrival. Tested PS5 Specs: The Nuts and Bolts We Now Know: A custom 8-core AMD chipset based on the 3rd Gen Ryzen architecture, with a graphics processor that takes advantage of the best of the Radeon Navi graphics processor family; a purpose built SSD storage system; 4D audio; compatibility with PS8 games and PSVR hardware with previous versions; Support for XNUMXK TV. All of this was revealed by PlayStation star gamer Mark Cerny, who is behind the PS4 compilation and is now in charge of the development of the next-gen console. Although the look of the console remains a mystery, its internals become clear and very promising. The single-socket AMD processor and graphics processor unleash the full power of ray tracing, an advanced lighting technique that can bring high-level immersion to in-game visuals. It's a Hollywood technique used in high-budget CGI shows, the level of visual fidelity you can expect is put into context. With 8K TV support, the textures are much more detailed and much larger. The announcement of a custom SSD will be encouraging - just because games are getting more and more complex doesn't mean they will also be slower to load. The new SSD is estimated to be 19 times faster than traditional SSD storage methods. According to Cerny, audio will reach a new "gold standard" on PS5, thanks to a new audio engine that offers immersive sound, especially if you're using headphones. Although the details are unclear, expect something that resembles the experience experienced with a Dolby Atmos setting. Sony remains low-key on some PS5-specific projects - the PlayStation 5 release date remains a mystery. , For example. 2019 has been scrapped, but will undoubtedly be revealed in the coming months, thanks to confirmation from Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Shawn Layden in an interview with Golem.de. In addition, Sony President Kenichiro Yoshida had also previously confirmed that the company was working on a next-generation console during an interview with the Financial Times. In May, Sony Interactive CEO John Kodera told The Wall Street Journal that PlayStation 5 would not be available until at least 2021. This seems like a reasonable assumption, which contradicts a report from Ace Securities. According to this rumor, the PS5 could be compatible with the PS4, PS3, PS2, and the original PlayStation, meaning that its library of games could date back to the glory days of the mid-90s. The PS4 of this rumor was confirmed, as well as support for PSVR. The rest of Sony's vintage catalog? It remains to be seen. The PS5S release date does not yet have an official word on the release date of PlayStation 5, and Sony officially confirms that this will not be the case for E3 2019, it is difficult to determine precisely what it is.At this time we will be able to see a console. PS5. Analysts predict, for example, that the PlayStation 5 launch date could be around 2020 or 2021, while others say 2019, so it's only the three-year window. With 2019 now ruled out by the Wired interview, 2020 appears to be the most realistic release window. Michael Pachter spoke about GamingBolt, stating that even though he thought the PS5 would be half a step and compatible with the PS4 Pro, I don't think we'll see it before "2019 or 2020, but probably 2019." This speculation now seems completely wrong: the first specifications suggested by Cerny suggest a major material leap, and the 2019 date will be excluded from now on. More recently, Pachter clarified this claim, saying that Sony would likely release the new console in 2020. He added that at that time, he believes the PS4 Pro will become the base model PlayStation and will see a price reduction. . Meanwhile, a recent report by Kotaku's Jason Schreier confirms this idea. He spoke to various developers about the most likely release dates, with most of the conversations going to the 2020 release. "There is information about the PlayStation 5 that circulates in third-party and third-party companies, but they are much more limited only if the release of the console was imminent." Sony's new CEO, Kenichiro Yoshida, has also released a three-year business plan for the company, which he expects its profits to decline by 2021. This is the kind of decline that could happen when PlayStation 4 reaches the top. Market saturation, before the launch of the PS5. calendars for 2020 and 2021, so... Competition for the PS5. While we're terribly eager to announce the launch of a PlayStation 5, we can't blame Sony for taking a few more years to get the most out of the latest PS4, given its huge player base. After all, the PS4 Pro is still relatively new to the market and its direct competitor, Microsoft's Xbox One X, is an even newer version. Due to recent leaks, we already know that Microsoft is working on the next Xbox, which is expected to be announced at E3 2019. Therefore, Sony is likely to be involved in the development of the PS5 as well. If we are honest, we cannot really see the urgent need to start a new generation now. And given Microsoft's growing commitment to backward compatibility, we believe it is essential for Sony to think seriously about the next steps. Despite Yasuda's report, a two- to three-year wait seems much more logical. However, it could be that Sony is trying to silence Microsoft from left field by posting earlier than expected. Additionally, Slightly Mad Studios announced that it was working on a next-generation high-powered console called the "Mad Box." & # 39 ;. Its pedigree remains to be seen, but most interesting is the reveal of Google Stadia, a streaming game service focused on broadcasting the kings of the internet. Streaming is undoubtedly a key element of any console, as well as Google's expertise in Internet infrastructure, making the Internet an essential part of the race to the game. PS5 News and Rumors Des Solid news about the PlayStation 5 is starting to get in shape, but as always, we have rumors about what could happen down the line, and we've collected and evaluated them right here.
According to a recently discovered patent, the PlayStation 5 might be able to emulate the PlayStation 4, the PS3, the PS2, and the original PlayStation, also known as the PSX, as well as next-gen titles. Mark Cerny's interview confirmed that at least the existing PS4 and PSVR titles would work across generations. Kenichiro Yoshida confirms the new generation.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Kenichiro Yoshida, president of Sony, said: "At this point, I can say that you need to have next-generation hardware." Ace Economic Research Institute Report.
Gaming industry analyst Hideki Yasuda of Osaka-based company Ace Economic Research said in a recent report that the PS5 could arrive in time for Christmas 2019 (via Q3). The report estimates that "the introduction of the PS5 will end in 2019." If that's true, it will be a blow to Microsoft, which has confirmed that the Xbox Two (codenamed "Xbox Scarlett") won't ship until 2020. However, Cerny's interview only demystifies that claim. We can see a PS5 at the end of 2019, but surely you will not be able to buy it. The development of PS5 games is in full swing.
Daniel Ahmad, an analyst at Niko Partners, has argued with sources at Sony's development houses, and believes that PS5 games are now the primary focus of most of Sony's internal teams. That makes perfect sense to have dev kits in the wild, but Ahmad also said that the product line for the PS4 had also been secured. Looking at the PS4 catalog, don't be surprised if there are plenty of PS4 to PS5 titles between generations as well. John Kodera talks about life cycles.
PlayStation's John Kodera spoke about the future of the PS4 at a Sony-hosted strategy meeting and, by extension, created space to foreshadow rumors about the PS5's release year. During the meeting, Kodera made it clear that Sony was still behind the console. he warned that sales should decline, in line with expectations as market saturation neared. While a console is reaching this stage in its life cycle, it's natural to start looking forward to the next iteration. Kodera said that the time between now and 2021 would be the time when Sony would collapse, suggesting that a great new idea could emerge. Maybe 2021 is the time to wait for the PS5? No participation in E3 2018 - or the presentation of an E3 2019
E3 2018 came and went without mentioning the PS5 during the event. Sony has proposed four main games: Death Stranding, Spiderman, The Last of Us 2, and Ghost of Tsushima. Since then, only Spider-Man has been released, opening up the possibility for others to switch to the PS5. As for E3 2019, Sony has confirmed that it will not participate. If the PS5 will appear before 2020, it will be at an exclusive event at Sony Eurogamer tech analysis
A recent report from Eurogamer has attempted to narrow down the possible release date depending on when technologies advanced enough to justify a generation jump will become available to Sony. The processor and memory of the console will be the most important elements to move forward. In both cases, Eurogamer determined that a new console was unlikely to be released before the end of 2019. Given the changing technologies, Mark Cerny explained that a launch date beyond 2019 seems more reasonable. Even if Sony managed to get out of the console faster, the cost of production would make the PS5 too expensive, which might not see the console published until late 2020, if Sony intends to make an attractive proposition. Andrew House talks about the next generation.
Former Sony boss Andrew House spoke about what the next generation of consoles might look like at the GamesBeat conference. Although House declined to comment specifically on the PlayStation 5 itself, he said he thought physical discs would stick around for a while, due to the need to continue exploiting developing markets where downloadable titles may not be as compatible. Limited internet infrastructure. Mark Cerny has since confirmed that the new PlayStation will continue to support physical media. However, in other markets, he believes that streaming games will be an important part of the next generation of consoles. House also said that he thought the PS4 and PS4 Pro still had a long lifespan. in them.This does not necessarily cancel the rumors that the PS5 will be with us in the next two years. If the information indicating that the console will be backward compatible is true, the PS4 generation will remain relevant for a long time in the life cycle of the PS5. Regardless, as House declined to comment on the PS5 despite his pressure, these details can only be considered speculation at this point.
SemiAccurate (via ResetEra) claims to have received information revealed on the console that has not yet been announced and indicates that the number of dev kits distributed suggests that the console could launch earlier than expected. In addition, SemiAccurate indicates that Sony will use this console to enhance its VR efforts, with integrated silicon VR technology, and will sport a GPU based on AMD's Navi architecture with a potentially custom processor. Element of AMD's Zen line. Rumors about Navi have been confirmed by Cerny, the Sony guru who also confirms that the PSVR will work with the new machine. The news of PlayStation Plus.
A recent announcement about the PlayStation Plus service has sparked speculation. It was announced that starting in March 2019, PS Plus would offer more free games for PS3 or PSVita and instead focus on PS4 titles. This has led some to wonder if Sony would try to scrap these previous generation titles for the next generation. This is, of course, pure speculation, but it is interesting to note that Sony would be willing to reduce its game offering to just two games (as Polygon says) with no other excuse than wanting to focus on the titles of an already very powerful console. It is not clear if Sony is really preparing the PS5 or if it will offer premium games on the PS4. So it looks like we will have to wait a moment to find out what the final plan is for PS Plus. PS5: Can we have the good 4K game? The PS4 Pro offers a tantalizing suggestion of what 4K gaming could be. But the fact is, we still don't have the courage to do 4K natively consistently. Their "checkerboard" technique of taking individual pixels and using them to render four pixels in 4K resolution is clever. You can produce native 4K output, but you often have to sacrifice resolution to maintain consistent performance. Chris Kingsley, CTO and co-founder of developer Rebellion, poses in front of a putative PS5 and an even more ambitious tech carrot: "Obviously new hardware should be compatible with 4K televisions and maybe even televisions. 8K! "Native 4K support will be a basic requirement for PlayStation 5. And, thanks to confirmation from Mark Cerny, the 8K will also be supported in some way. But basic 4K visuals won't be all - the new console has been confirmed - tracking graphics capabilities. The last two editions of the GDC have given us an idea of what the next generation of games that use this technology would look like. So we are very excited about the PS5 crawl. Real-time ray tracing was revealed to be the next important step in rendering, while Epic Games showed us how it could be used to create the most realistic characters ever. Using his capture technology, the creator of Unreal Engine has released a future with character models so realistic that they bring us closer to crossing the valley. Check out Andy Serkis' performance below to see how well these new development technologies can: "Honestly, in five or ten years, I don't think I can tell the difference between the real thing and the real thing. . Kim Libreri, CTO Epic, told GamesIndustry.biz: "Soon you will see that the hardware supports these kinds of features, then finally the biggest blockbuster with the most complicated effects, in ten years, you will be able to do it in real time. ". PS5: VR effectSony has become the first console maker to embrace virtual reality, thanks to PlayStation VR, but if you take a closer look at PlayStation VR and see how it works on the PS4 Pro, it invites you to speculate. On how a PlayStation 5 console could take VR to a new level, Sony's Mark Cerny confirmed that existing PSVR headsets would work with the next-gen PlayStation, but he wouldn't be ready to confirm a PSVR version 2 release. Right now, the PlayStation VR runs at a lower resolution than the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, but in the current state of things, I'm almost pushed this time by the PlayStation 4 base package beyond its limits. Running a PlayStation VR on a PS4 Pro improves the frame rate, which is very convenient for the general VR experience, but even the PS4 Pro cannot overcome the resolution restrictions set by the PlayStation VR headset. Sony you'll want to get back on the market with a second version of PlayStation VRS. Clearly superior in technology, it's a safe bet that, given the incredible success of the PlayStation VR, Sony will want to return to the market with a second high-tech version. : This would be an obvious selling point for the PlayStation 5. And if a PlayStation VR 2 headset could be sold without an external black box, it should be significantly cheaper, further accelerating the progression of virtual reality. A recent report from SemiAcccurate, which states that the PS5 will have virtual reality features integrated with silicon, suggests that this will be the case, a feature that Cerny also refers to. Reebellion's Kingsley makes another plus point about the second generation RV. "Anything that reduces the tracks must be a good thing," he says. The umbilical cord that currently connects VR headset users to their consoles or computers obviously runs counter to the immersive nature of VR, and we are already starting to see, for example, a third-party implementation for HTC Vive that it goes wireless. Oculus pushes the wireless space forward with its Oculus Go and Oculus Quest hardware. It's a safe bet that the ability to use a wireless PlayStation VR 2 will be built into the PS5. But Kingsley's wish list for the PlayStation VR 2 goes further: "A wide vertical and horizontal field of view would be at the top of my list, and of course, that would require 4K resolution per eye and high range. dynamic would also be very useful. " HDR and a wider field of view should be achievable, but unfortunately we don't think full 4K VR is a possibility, even for the PS5. As Kingsley points out, this would require 4K rendering per eye, which equates to a general 8K rendering, which we think is beyond the capabilities of the PS5, but Sony may find some smart tech to use before launching its fifth console. PlayStation. Sophisticated rendering techniques, which use eye tracking to render only the items it focuses on in high definition, while other items are of reduced quality, for example. To be a potential technique used. What form will the PS5 take? It has been suggested that future consoles, such as PlayStation 5, could take radically different forms than today, thanks to advances in cloud computing and streaming games, thus eliminating the components that make games. Current devices so bulky. However, we estimate that Sony is unlikely to take a more Nintendo-like approach and put the PS5 in a small box. One reason is that with the PS4, Sony has committed to using what basically constitutes the guts of a PC - the first three PlayStation variants used proprietary components (and on the PS3). had an impact on sales). The developers have certainly been relieved that the PS4 is going the way of the PC. "We always want fast processors and GPUs, but a lot of fast RAM is also very important: you don't need fast processors if you don't have enough data." Chris Kingsley "Developers want to be able to create the best games with a minimum of" We want to stay focused on creativity and get things going right, "says Kingsley." Hardware must be based on current console hardware. , which is based on the hardware of a PC. We still want fast processors and GPUs, a lot of fast RAM is also very important; it is useless to use fast processors if data is missing. "Anything is possible, but will the PS5 still have a hard drive? Certainly, but not the kind you know, Sony has confirmed that it would use an SSD in every PS5, allowing it to increase load times by 19 times compared to existing SSD technology. he's very excited about what his community thinks - rec Recently, a group called PlayStation Voice sent out surveys to members of its closed community asking what their expectations were for PS5. A community member posted the email received and found himself removed from the group for breach of their confidentiality agreements. According to PSU, PlayStation Voice is a community managed by a third-party consumer analytics agency, Join the Dots. Once the information is collected, it is returned to the customer (in this case, the customer is probably a Sony PlayStation). Admittedly, that doesn't tell us much about the PS5, except that things will probably start over. . While Sony is unlikely to use the information gathered from their communities to decide exactly what features will be included in the console, the ideas of fans can certainly inspire a lot of inspiration. If only games were streamed to the PS5, this high-resolution texture storage problem would go away completely, and Sony already has a game streaming service in the form of PlayStation Now. Nothing would prevent Sony from releasing a small version of the cloud-based console at a very high speed. One of the biggest issues is still broadband speed. Even 4K TV requires a minimum of 25 Mbps of high bandwidth to provide satisfactory streaming, and it's doubtful that streaming 4K games, with added information on the visual side, will even work reliably at such speeds. Nothing would prevent Sony from releasing a simplified version of the PS5 console for users with very high speed broadband, possibly with a mobile phone type subscription model with an initial hardware cost (what Microsoft thinks about it). But for the PS5 to sell something like its predecessors, I would take a classic version with guts similar to the PS4, which seems to be the case from Cerny's interview. PS5: Optical discs or not? The rise in downloadable games, which continue to affect the physical disc market, means that experts have predicted that consoles will go to the data for about ten years. However, PS5 will not be the first system to risk venturing down this path, physical media is still confirmed. Sony has received a lot of (justifiable) criticism for not inserting a 4K Blu-ray drive into the PS4 Pro, making it a less attractive purchase for movie and TV enthusiasts than the Xbox One S or Xbox One. . X. Surveys continue to show that gamers are still attached to the ability to buy games on physical discs, especially since they can then sell them (a practice the games industry hates) and it keeps Disk Space Usage at a manageable level. If Sony removes the Blu-ray player from the PS5, gamers expect a trade-off of several terabytes of storage. Kingsley gives a developer point of view on the topic: "I think the release time for movies and games on disc is decreasing, because most people are digitizing; however, some people like physical discs, so Who knows if this decline will stabilize and remain present, but at a lower level than today? Download numbers have risen in the last year, but EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said he thought consoles and drives will remain in place. "Consoles and drives will probably be around for a long time (...) I think it's up to the consumer to decide what is the easiest way for them to buy a game." This means that they no longer have a store on the street and therefore decide to buy it (numerically) so it may be easier for them to do so.
So when can we expect the PS5? Since the PlayStation 4 launched in 2013 and Sony's old consoles arrived every six years, it would have been easy to predict that it would launch the PlayStation 5 in 2019 at the earliest. The kind of technology available at the time should easily allow for fully native 4K gaming without imposing a huge price tag on the PS5 and by 2019, 4K TVs will be the norm, rather than the exception, in the average home, however it seems. that Sony will take at least another year to refine its product and that the material it needs is developed. So maybe 2020 will be the year that Sony will launch the PS5 to the world, as the first native 4K system console with wireless VR... as long as Microsoft doesn't get there first. What games can we expect to see on PS5? The entire PS4 library, including PSVR games, will be compatible with the PS5. This is very well known. But the games are being developed specifically for this new generation of PlayStation 5 consoles and the added power it will offer. We've already seen CD Projekt Red mention that it was being developed for this generation and the next. There are already developer kits on the market, we think there's a chance Cyberpunk 2077 could be one of the first PS5 titles. Similarly, Cerny's keen eye in his interview with Wired indicated that Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding was also a multi-generational title. At this point, any PS4 game in play in the bunch, from Ghost of Tsushima to The Last of Us 2, would be the prime candidate for PS5 all-gen upgrades. And, given the success of God of War, Gran Turismo, and Horizon: Zero Dawn, it would be foolish to assume anything but the possibility of their successors making their way to the PS5. Regardless, given what we now know about the PS5, the future of gaming with PlayStation looks very promising indeed. Check out our PS4 vs PS4: PSVR comparison and explained video below.