It's no surprise that the next generation of consoles is upon us. But when exactly, we can't say for sure. For Sony, its PlayStation 5 is not going to be retailed this year. Speaking to Wired, Sony's Mark Cerny, the lead system architect for the PS4, provided some juicy details regarding the company's much awaited console, but also noted that their "next-gen console won’t be landing in stores anytime in 2019".

Release date aside, Cerny provided more details regarding the specs of the device. As expected, the latter will boast a better CPU and GPU. More specifically, the home console will pack a CPU based on the third generation of AMD’s Ryzen line with eight cores of the company’s new 7nm Zen 2 microarchitecture, and for its GPU, a custom variant of Radeon’s Navi family, with ray tracing support will be embedded.

Cerny notes that the ray tracing technology will have more use than just improving on the visual aspect on this 8K-compatible device. “If you wanted to run tests to see if the player can hear certain audio sources or if the enemies can hear the players’ footsteps, ray tracing is useful for that,” he says. “It's all the same thing as taking a ray through the environment.”

More than just focusing on the visuals, Sony is also laying emphasis on the audio, stating that the AMD chip also packs a custom unit for 3D audio. “As a gamer,” Cerny says, “it's been a little bit of a frustration that audio did not change too much between PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. With the next console the dream is to show how dramatically different the audio experience can be when we apply significant amounts of hardware horsepower to it.”

Of note, the PlayStation 5 will also come with a solid state drive (SSD) which will drastically improve in-game load times. During the interview, Wired had a glimpse of this when Cerny compared fast travel in 2018's Spider-Man between a PS4 Pro and a PS5 dev-kit: it took 15 seconds on the PS4 Pro while it a mere 0.8 seconds on the PS5.

Wait, that's all cool but Spider-Man is getting a re-release on the PS5?! Not quite. According to the interview, this next-gen PlayStation will be partly based on the PS4’s architecture, and will also be backward-compatible with PS4 games. Also compatible with the PS5 will be the current PSVR headset. Moreover, the next generation of PlayStation-branded console will still support physical media instead of being a download-only device.

So what do you think of the next PlayStation so far? Which features do you wish it to support and do you think Sony will implement them?

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[RivenMain]

My wishful thinking: Windows on ps5 so I can do emulation and run steam on it I'd sell my computer if it could do that.

edit: or that it won't cost as much as the ps3 was.

 

[DeslotlCL]

Ok? It's still censorship.

And how does it affect the game or gameplay? Ah, sure, it doesnt have the underage looking girls nude tiddies while doing suggestive poses so you guys can jerk to it. Freaking disgusting.

 

[FAST6191]

but I think you overthink to much about games - play the games for fun not looking for bugs patches paid dlc microtransactions etc - games hav never been better and thts a fact as I'm sure on everyone's Christmas list for 2020 wil be a ps5

There is an aspect of I taught myself to look for bugs and thus I see them always, though it has been a while now (it has been over a decade since I released https://gbatemp.net/threads/gbatemp-rom-hacking-documentation-project-new-2016-edition-out.73394/ , and just as long since I was reviewing 360 games for the release threads).

I would say games have been better. I had an absolutely fantastic time last generation -- while most of the things up there were something of a problem for some things there was still enough to it all. I go back and play them, and the games from the generation before, today and still have a great time, finding myself wanting something more like it today.

 

[KingVamp]

Let's get rid of blood and gore in games. I mean, how does it affect the game or gameplay? Do you enjoy seeing people die? Disgusting.

On topic - This is a weird way to announce it. Maybe they have a lot more to announce when they actually show it off.

 

[ChaosEternal]

And how does it affect the game or gameplay? Ah, sure, it doesnt have the underage looking girls nude tiddies while doing suggestive poses so you guys can jerk to it. Freaking disgusting.

I suppose one could tone down the violence in the GoW games to T or even E levels and they'd be completely unchanged, huh. Go be the morality police somewhere else. Freaking disgusting.

 

[DeslotlCL]

I suppose one could tone down the violence in the GoW games to T or even E levels and they'd be completely unchanged, huh. Go be the morality police somewhere else. Freaking disgusting.

Virtual violence or underage tidies? Sure, both are bad, but one of the two really tells more about yourself, especially when you complain about a suggestive easthetic look for character of questionable look/age instead of a real gameplay mechanic. Though, sure, blood and stuff could be censored, but underage looking anime girls? Fucking hell dude...

 

[guily6669]

If the latest rumors from Navi are right, I seriously don't know what kind of GPU they will use on the PS5 to even give any kind of Ray-tracing...

Latest rumors is AMD Navi will be around GTX1080 performance for around 250$ and at this level of performance Ray-tracing as tested even with the GTX1080 is like a joke with a game at 1080p with even all settings to low looking like shit including Ray-tracing to low.

I think more powerful AMD GPU's will never be released before 2020 which certainly won't go on a 2020 console as they don't make the consoles in the range of millions in like a week and be on all countries on the next month, they make them quite some time before and test them all the way and give the devkits earlier to only then officially release the consoles worldwide which at the end is a process that takes I don't even know how much, but maybe a whole year?

 

[ChaosEternal]

Virtual violence or underage tidies? Sure, both are bad, but one of the two really tells more about yourself, especially when you complain about a estetic look instead of a real gameplay mechanic. Though, sure, blood and stufr could be censored, but underage looking anime girls? Hell dude...

Eh, you probably could make a GoW game with identical gameplay minus the gore. It wouldn't really be the same anymore though.

 

[Xzi]

Backwards compatible with PS4 games is all I wanted to hear. Hopefully we can also expect 60 FPS when running in 1080p.

 

[guily6669]

All I want for PS5 is being backward compatibility too and also I would like that they make the most powerful console too because if Xbox continues the same, I already have a Xbox on my PC and even better so I hope Sony does it better on the hardware again than M$ or I will be pissed since after X360 theres only 1 platform as a home console for me and it's Sony...

Xone was a bloody joke with its crap hardware (not talking about the X, that is a whole different beast) and the best is almost all crap exclusives are on PC and even on PC you can connect online and interact with ppl playing on Xbox like if you were on a Xbox and even have crossbuy games (I played Forza Horizon 3 for free since a friend bought it for his Xone and he shared it with my PC, but never liked Forza Horizons anyway, I always only liked the normal Forzas since the first).

 

[FAST6191]

Let's get rid of blood and gore in games. I mean, how does it affect the game or gameplay? Do you enjoy seeing people die? Disgusting.

I always found the idea that bloodless is supposedly less harmful and thus more desirable to be an odd thing. Indeed I would say it is precisely backwards -- give adults the option to turn blood off. They will hopefully have seen enough of the world to know what happens when someone gets hit with something.

 

[DuoForce]

DIGITAL GAMING IS THE FUTURE!!!

*screams the fat man in the background*

 

[KingVamp]

We already have guidelines/ratings. If we start censoring everything base on simply not liking it, there would be no end to it.

Hopefully they will turn the PS4 Pro into a PS5 lite, so that people will feel less jaded and also for the price. I can surely see the PS5 being $499.

 

[anhminh]

And how does it affect the game or gameplay? Ah, sure, it doesnt have the underage looking girls nude tiddies while doing suggestive poses so you guys can jerk to it. Freaking disgusting.

I want them to go all the way with the censor and made sure all the violent are keep out of the console as well. The school violent and shooting is at alarming high rate and it mostly because violent media from big company like Sony that support it. Every of they fucking game have gun and people casually being killed which is more worrying than a nude titties girl in my opinion and yet they do nothing about it, fucking hypocrisy.

 

[DeslotlCL]

I want them to go all the way with the censor and made sure all the violent are keep out of the console as well. The school violent and shooting is at alarming high rate and it mostly because violent media from big company like Sony that support it. Every of they fucking game have gun and people casually being killed which is more worrying than a nude titties girl in my opinion and yet they do nothing about it, fucking hypocrisy.

Its not about nude girls, they are concern about girls that may appear underage, and they truly look like underage girls, despite some having a canonically adult age, because japanese dont feel ashamed of making girls appear like lolis, or put true lolis in siggestive situations, and that's as much disgusting as your counter-reply about violence.

 

[guily6669]

DIGITAL GAMING IS THE FUTURE!!!

*screams the fat man in the background*

I'm all digital since RGH on the X360 and even way older on PC since last game I physically bought on PC was WTCC for PC and basically was just a DVD to throw in the garbage since we didnt even use it lol we only used the steam key and downloaded the whole latest version already and never used the DVD at all and don't know where it is either (so its actually a physical non physical kind of game where all you needed is the key, even using the DVD it says its better to install the latest version trough steam and not install trough the DVD, when I 1st saw that I was like WTF garbage is this, that's basically my last "kinda physical" experience on PC LOL).

Never bought a physical game for my PS3 or X360 either, I have only 1 sealed Gears of War somewhere that came with a special edition X360 controller and never used it and the PS3 I only have 2 games that came with it but never really used them either, I only bought digital...

PS4 I also only bought all digital...

Last game I bought physical was Zelda for the Switch (something I haven't done for more than a decade), but ended up selling it anyway .

EDI: Oh and forgot to say I bought a few for the 3DS, but ended up not playing a single one, neither I even ever cared for the 3DS at all .

 

[osaka35]

I'm a bit surprised ray-tracing is part of Navi. I was under the impression that was Nvidia tech and AMD was only doing something "similar" or the like, and not necessarily right away. Granted, I haven't been paying as close attention as I normally do. I guess sony and microsoft are getting the latest chips and consumers are getting the budget chips? Only way to meet quotas is to limit demand? maybe? And it would seem microsoft and sony are getting the same chips. which is fun.

Also, still allows disc? Excellent. Good to know. Also hope the flash for the OS doesn't rely on sata or something.

I'm hoping for psx,ps2, and ps3 emulation.

also, ff7 remake/reimagining is definitely going to be a launch title.

 

[RandomUser]

They should also a MiniDisc slot, VHS, BetaMax and a cassette player to ensure backwards compatibility with every other Sony product that used physical media. And while they are at it the might as well add a SNES cartridge slot for compatibility with the original Playstation/SNES hybrid......

What about LaserDisc?

I want them to go all the way with the censor and made sure all the violent are keep out of the console as well. The school violent and shooting is at alarming high rate and it mostly because violent media from big company like Sony that support it. Every of they fucking game have gun and people casually being killed which is more worrying than a nude titties girl in my opinion and yet they do nothing about it, fucking hypocrisy.

Actually that is still in debate as some study shows yes while others says no.
The thing is that when I played violence games or watch show/movies that has a lot of violence in it, didn't trigger my aggression towards others and I didn't go out casually killing people let alone going on a rampage. So I'm leaning towards the no studies might be more accurate, but I could be wrong. I think that there is a whole host of reason for violent and shooting at schools, video games cannot be the sole reason, but again I could be wrong.

 

[Captain_N]

An ssd and backwards compatibility. *Rubs hands*

Yeah an ssd that is probably 256gb...

 

[netovsk]

Ok Mr. Cerny is BSing big time here.

What is the point of bundling the console with a SSD that will unnecessarily raise it's price point considerably? Why not go the PS4 route and allow for nice and easy hard disk upgrading for those who care?

8k is irrelevant at this point and future-proofing doesn't make sense anymore since mid-gen refreshes are a reality now. Even in the future, 8k is not really important unless you're going for a 70 inch screen or something like that.

I just wonder what is his endgame here.