Rather than let rumors and leaks go wild, Sony has made it official: its next-gen console is named the PlayStation 5 and will hit stores in time for Holiday 2020. More details of the console have been revealed in an exclusive Wired article published today.

The article details that the PS5 will pack a solid-state drive which, system architect Mark Cerny tells Wired, will "turn loading time from a hassle to a blink". He also clarified on ray-tracing for fancy lighting and sound effects in 3D environments that it "is not a software-level fix" but that "there is ray-tracing acceleration in the GPU hardware”.

Physical games are back for the new PlayStation and will use 100GB optical disks which will be read by the console's optical drive that also serves as a 4K Bluray player. There is also a twist to installing games on the PS5 which will give players "finer-grained access to the data". This implies a more modular approach to installation like installing "just a game's multiplayer campaign, leaving the single-player campaign for another time, or just installing the whole thing and then deleting the single-player campaign once you've finished it".

Emphasis was also laid in the Wired article and by Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan's blog post on the console's new controller. The latter will replace the “rumble” technology with haptic feedback to allow players to "feel a broader range of feedback" and it will also adopt USB Type-C connector for cable play/charging. Its trigger buttons (L2/R2) will also pack what Sony is calling "adaptive triggers". "Developers can program the resistance of the triggers so that you feel the tactile sensation of drawing a bow and arrow or accelerating an off-road vehicle through rocky terrain. In combination with the haptics, this can produce a powerful experience that better simulates various actions," wrote CEO Jim Ryan. Wired also noted during their hands-on with a prototype that the controller features a microphone of some sort but still looks like a heavier PS4 controller. After playing through a few demos, Wired's writer said that the controller gave "distinct—and surprisingly immersive—tactile experiences".

Also of note, Wired talked to Marco Thrush, president of Bluepoint Games, the company behind the PS4's Shadow of the Colossus remake, who said "We're working on a big one right now. I'll let you figure out the rest."

You can read the full version of Wired's exclusive article linked below. What do you think of the PS5 from this new announcement? What more features would you like to see in the next-gen console? And what could Bluepoint Games possibly be working on? Share your thoughts with us below!

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[antiNT]

thats a Rockstar thing... not a Sony thing...

they said they wouldn't do one ATM due to political cilmate

Yeah I meant I hope Rockstar releases the game on the PS5, not on the next console (PS6 ?)

 

[DarthDub]

Yeah that's cool and all, but what games are coming out for it?

 

[DANTENDO]

Yeah that's cool and all, but what games are coming out for it?

Around E3 time wil tel you

 

[Bladexdsl]

once again sony stealing nintendos ideas AHEM 3d rumble

 

[DANTENDO]

once again sony stealing nintendos ideas AHEM 3d rumble

Noone gives a shit as hardly a selling point

 

[Bladexdsl]

they reckon this can do 8k 120fps LMFAO what a joke the PC CAN'T even do that. the ps4 can't even do 4k properly i can't wait to see what half assed lie they come up with for 8k proper gonna use HD ULTRA checker boarding or some shit!!

 

[anhminh]

Do they have auto drifting feature too? Like the joystick automatically move for you when you don't touch it.

 

[kumikochan]

once again sony stealing nintendos ideas AHEM 3d rumble

It's not, it is more similar to haptic triggers xbox uses. According to Nintendo fanboys everybody steals from them

 

[ita54]

Day one

 

[Xzi]

Yeah that's cool and all, but what games are coming out for it?

I can damn near guarantee they're gonna double-dip with a PS5 release of the FF7 remaster, and Rockstar will do the same with RDR2. Everything else is still up in the air at this point.

 

[Pipistrele]

My prediction: fancy feedback gimmicks end up being underwhelming and underused, but library of games is decent, so it's fine in the end.

 

[guily6669]

Probably you will be able to count with Gran Turismo 7 and Cyberpunk 2077 (even though it's supposed to be released for current gen, but the release date kept stretching and will probably be close to the new console and with the visuals they show it's most likely on something similar to PS5 or the Next Xbox...).

Death stranding will probably also glow on the Next Gen and some others...

ps: And anyway if the console is really retro compatible with PS4 I'm sure you will have a HUGE library and probably even run them better than on the PS4 Pro...

 

[depaul]

In order to cut prices, maybe it's better if Sony releases PS5 just with minimum SSD storage (ex : 256 GB), and leave users with the possibility to add extra storage as they wish...

 

[RivenMain]

I've been holding off on getting a ps4 since it's backwards compatible The 4k player will be nice if I can just plug my external hard drive into it to play movies. my tv can't use more than 2tb -.- I just hdmi movies from my pc lol.

 

[guily6669]

In order to cut prices, maybe it's better if Sony releases PS5 just with minimum SSD storage (ex : 256 GB), and leave users with the possibility to add extra storage as they wish...

256GB would be stupid too when the PS4 comes with up to 1TB...

Just wished it would come with a normal Sata III SSD of at least 1TB, but sadly from what they said it looks more like it will be some kind of M.2 with Nvme support, its good and bad because it probably won't be user replaceable without loosing warranty and it's always more expensive to go M.2 and more restricted than the common Sata III which still has way more than plenty enough speed for anything, never seen much difference in any test on any game from a fast Sata III to a super fast expensive M.2 Nvme, hell even windows doesn't start up much more faster...

Amazing would be coming really with 1TB M.2 Nvme fast SSD and having an extra Sata III port for user HDD\SSD extra space upgrading, but mehh it will never happen, I mean it would be too much to ask ...

 

[mightymuffy]

256GB would be stupid too when the PS4 comes with up to 1TB...

Just wished it would come with a normal Sata III SSD of at least 1TB, but sadly from what they said it looks more like it will be some kind of M.2 with Nvme support, its good and bad because it probably won't be user replaceable without loosing warranty and it's always more expensive to go M.2 and more restricted than the common Sata III which still has way more than plenty enough speed for anything, never seen much difference in any test on any game from a fast Sata III to a super fast expensive M.2 Nvme, hell even windows doesn't start up much more faster...

Amazing would be coming really with 1TB M.2 Nvme fast SSD and having an extra Sata III port for user HDD\SSD extra space upgrading, but mehh it will never happen, I mean it would be too much to ask ...

Prices are dropping... The idea of 1TB M2 still seems outlandish though! ...But there's the fact that this'll be using PCI-E 4.0, which is still a bit of an unknown quantity: a relatively low budget SSD might work wonders with PCIE4 so that might be what ends up going in the next consoles, rather than the high end M2's currently out there at the moment.
And the CPU gains here are massive too: night & day difference between the current gen of consoles! I don't see there being much of a jump over the Xbox One X in terms of GPU power, particularly in the rumoured ' base' models that Sony (and almost certainly MS) are preparing, but with such a jump elsewhere, bring it on! And this will jump will also help PC gamers too as consoles tend to be benchmarks when making a game: we should see a big difference on PC when these get released too!

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

256GB would be stupid too when the PS4 comes with up to 1TB...

Just wished it would come with a normal Sata III SSD of at least 1TB, but sadly from what they said it looks more like it will be some kind of M.2 with Nvme support, its good and bad because it probably won't be user replaceable without loosing warranty and it's always more expensive to go M.2 and more restricted than the common Sata III which still has way more than plenty enough speed for anything, never seen much difference in any test on any game from a fast Sata III to a super fast expensive M.2 Nvme, hell even windows doesn't start up much more faster...

Amazing would be coming really with 1TB M.2 Nvme fast SSD and having an extra Sata III port for user HDD\SSD extra space upgrading, but mehh it will never happen, I mean it would be too much to ask ...

NVMe's aren't that much more expensive anymore, you can grab a 1TB 970 Evo NVMe for only $170, which is only $40 than a 1TB 860 Evo SATA SSD at $130 from Samsung, which isn't that much at all when you consider the massive boost in read/write speeds.

And those are just the "top of the line" SSDs that are generally good, you could cheap out with a 1TB Intel 660p for only $110 if you wanted and have no issues, too.

Though I do agree that they could have just used SATA drives and be fine (and it's still not concrete that they're only using NVMe for storage and don't have a secondary storage, or that it can't be upgraded at all), I imagine the only reason they can install and load games "SUPER DUPER FAST" as they claim is because they're designing the PS5 to completely max out the 4.0 PCIe bandwidth for reading storage, hence why they could load Spider-man levels at "0.5 seconds" vs the 8 seconds or whatever the base PS4 version does.

 

[KingVamp]

That said, I think the triggers are a good idea. Just wish they were on motion controls.

I can damn near guarantee they're gonna double-dip with a PS5 release of the FF7 remaster, and Rockstar will do the same with RDR2. Everything else is still up in the air at this point.

Would they double-dip those, when they have backwards compatibility?

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Would they double-dip those, when they have backwards compatibility?

Of course they will, they'll slightly bump the resolution, probably up the fps vs the PS4 versions, and then resell it as "remastered" for full or slightly discounted price.

 

[deSSy2724]

It would be backward compatible with PS4 games because it would simply use the same arhitecture (but improved with more feautures ofc) as the PS4 consoles...... not because Sony necessarily wanted it that way but simply because of the same CPU arhitecture (similar how it is on he PC front). So, PS2 compatibility will be 99.99% there on PS5 as well because its already on PS4.... I dont see why not.

And because the PS5 will be powerful enough, they could include atleast a perfect software emulation for PS1 games without overheads (they could even remaster some PS1 titles, I bet it would sell well). Only PS3 backward compatibility is very questionable.