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    After months of hints and small reveals, Sony’s PS5 is finally out in the public eye. The company revealed its next-gen console in a games-focused livestream the other week, highlighting some of the exclusive and mutliplatform games coming to the new machine. We also got to see the box for the first time, something Microsoft did with its Xbox Series X back in January. Between that and earlier reveals, we have a fair amount of information about the thing right now, so let’s get into a roundup of everything we know so far, as well as predictions about what we don’t. So here’s the PS5: it’s design, specs, and games, as well as predictions about the price and release date.

    Design:
    It’s a weird one! Consoles have either been black boxes or made by Nintendo for as long as I can remember, but the PS4 is going for a sort of mod spaceship look, with big white plastic fins on the side. There are two versions: one with a disc drive bumping out, and one without. Both are gigantic.

    Release Date: A question mark, though not quite such a big question mark as price. Consoles typically come out in November as prep for the holiday season: the PS4 came out on November 15, and the PS3 came out on November 17 (in North America). Before that, things were not quite as standardized, but nobody really expects things to change all that much. Look for something in late November, maybe 19 or 20.

    Specs:
    Sony revealed the specs for the console before it showed the machine itself, so we know what’s inside the box:


    • CPU: AMD Zen 2-based CPU with 8 cores at 3.5GHz (variable frequency)
    • GPU: 10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz (variable frequency)
    • GPU architecture: Custom RDNA 2
    • Memory interface: 16GB GDDR6 / 256-bit
    • Memory bandwidth: 448GB/s
    • Internal storage: Custom 825GB SSD
    • IO throughput: 5.5GB/s (raw), typical 8-9GB/s (compressed)
    • Expandable storage: NVMe SSD slot
    • External storage: USB HDD support (PS4 games only)
    • Optical drive: 4K UHD Blu-ray drive


    Games: This is a little confusing, because the PS5 will be backwards compatible, and there are a bunch of cross-gen games that will also receive upgrades for newer hardware. So not only will anything you have on the PS4 will run on the PS5, major AAA releases like Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, Cyberpunk 2077 and whatever the new Call of Duty is will be made to take advantage of more horsepower.

    Beyond that, Sony announced a bunch of exclusive and non-exclusive titles in its recent showcase. Here’s a list of those. We’re not getting a major first-party AAA release title, but we are getting Spider-Man: Miles Morales a smaller standalone title releasing for the holiday season. The first full-scale exclusive will be Horizon: Forbidden West, out in 2021, though we don’t know when.

    Controller: We actually saw the Dualsense controller long before the console itself, and the white/black two-tone design certainly makes more sense it context. That’s what we can see, however. What’s more exciting is what we can’t see yet: the Dualsense is coming with state of the art haptics and feedback mechanisms. I don’t want to get too excited, because it’s impossible to evaluate this stuff without a controller in its hand, and rumble effects have been overhyped before. I have, however, read impressions from developers who are impressed with the experience overall, so I’m cautiously optimistic.

    Price: This one is arguably the biggest question of the entire console. We do not yet have a confirmed price, but we do have an idea of where it might fall. What we know is that there will be not one but two prices: one for the all-digital edition, and one for the disc drive edition. If the all digital edition is cheaper, most suspect a price differential of $50-$100. $100 would be a lot more than the cost of the disc drive, but there is always the possibility that Sony would be hoping to make it up through committing players to buying on PSN.

    Few expect the price to go as high as $599, the eye-watering price that crippled the PS3 at launch, but it’s not totally impossible. If that’s the upper bound, the lower bound is probably $399, which is where the PS4 launched.

    Most expect one of these two machines to be $499, so the breakdown could go $549/$499, or $499/$449. If we’re looking at a $50 price differential, my guess is it would be one of those two.

    If we’re looking at a $100 price differential, it’s not impossible that we would start edging up at one of those two bounds: either $599/$499 or $499/$399.
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    Big and very expensive. The one thing that I like about this new console is the 4K Blu Ray. I'll wait a year or so to purchase this item.

    Edit: $499.99 for the disc drive and $399.99 for digital only.
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    Seems they are having a tough time trying to get up to 4.0ghz processing. Even with more cores they stagnated in the 3- range.

    I'm surprised Gaming PC's haven't replaced consoles yet.

    I have an amd 8 core processor pc i built a few years ago on a real good budget.

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    Preorders sold out. People on eBay are selling their preorders triple the original price.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sense-A View Post
    Seems they are having a tough time trying to get up to 4.0ghz processing. Even with more cores they stagnated in the 3- range.

    I'm surprised Gaming PC's haven't replaced consoles yet.

    I have an amd 8 core processor pc i built a few years ago on a real good budget.
    Most gamers are casual and don't want to spend so much. A lot of people just play one game so no real need for a gaming rig. Consoles are just too obsessed with 4k though, I'd rather just play 1080p at 120fps. I mean with the RTX 3070 costing $400, you could build a very capable machine for not that much. It's just a daunting task for most.

    As for the PS5, nothing really that exciting about it so far. I will get it but a few months down the line. The pre-order situation is a joke though, sold out instantly and not many knew about it. Maybe with the games and exclusive titles Sony might be winning but when it comes to consumerism Xbox surprisingly have been very consumer friendly.

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    i was unimpressed by the Final Fantasy XVI trailer...

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    PS5 might be the best thing for cutting edge gamers

    But to keep my kids occupied for less than $100 I can build this raspberry Pi emulator with every NES/SNES/SEGA/Playstation even N64 games on it and they have fun. I have nintento controllers, snes controllers, sega controllers, N64 controllers. All for less than $100.

    I'd rather fuck with the MPC 1000 than video games.

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    No dolby vision and dolby atmos?

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    Have anyone seen the videos? This thing will be amazing!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sense-A View Post
    PS5 might be the best thing for cutting edge gamers

    But to keep my kids occupied for less than $100 I can build this raspberry Pi emulator with every NES/SNES/SEGA/Playstation even N64 games on it and they have fun. I have nintento controllers, snes controllers, sega controllers, N64 controllers. All for less than $100.

    I'd rather fuck with the MPC 1000 than video games.
    I stopped after PS3, to many good games from multiple retro consoles to keep upgrading. Some day, maybe.

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    Prices have been cut. Who's buying this?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sense-A View Post
    Seems they are having a tough time trying to get up to 4.0ghz processing. Even with more cores they stagnated in the 3- range.

    I'm surprised Gaming PC's haven't replaced consoles yet.

    I have an amd 8 core processor pc i built a few years ago on a real good budget.
    PC has never been replaced by consoles and are more popular than ever while Sony and Microsoft keep trying to tap in to the PC user base
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    Quote Originally Posted by IrOnMaN View Post
    Prices have been cut. Who's buying this?
    What are the big must have games that are going to be available when released?

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    Man, enter the spiderverse or whatever looks fucking SICK. I might actually buy this one. Haven't bought a console since gamecube lol. Is the nintendo alternative supposed to have this spiderverse shit?

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Hound View Post
    PC has never been replaced by consoles and are more popular than ever while Sony and Microsoft keep trying to tap in to the PC user base
    The new consoles are just PC's now anyway. 4k 60fps for £400 is a good deal to be honest. Microsoft are just focusing on gamespass now, I don't think they intend to compete with the PS5. I mean the Series X specs wise is impressive but if your a spec nerd then you probably already have a PC which renders the Series X pointless.


    Quote Originally Posted by TSA View Post
    Man, enter the spiderverse or whatever looks fucking SICK. I might actually buy this one. Haven't bought a console since gamecube lol. Is the nintendo alternative supposed to have this spiderverse shit?
    The spiderman game is a PS5 exclusive. Either way the Nintendo Switch just isn't powerful enough to run any modern game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HANZO View Post

    The spiderman game is a PS5 exclusive. Either way the Nintendo Switch just isn't powerful enough to run any modern game.
    Call of Duty is usually the game that promotes a new console. Spiderman? Demon Souls, Battlefield, COD, or even a sports game will suffice.
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