Lets take an in depth look at the PS5
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So here it is, the official unveiling of Sony's next-generation console, the PS5. Interestingly, the console didn't reveal itself until well after Sony demonstrated their upcoming gaming titles, which made the live steamed event even more exciting. When it was all said and done, the PS5 finally made its way to viewing onlookers. The highly anticipated gaming console is now upon us, and it deserves a conversation. With said, let's take a close look at this gaming console. Shall we?
The Design
Judging from what I've viewed on the Internet, at first glance, the gaming console appears to be the massive size. Though Sony has not offered up any specific measurements, the console dwarfs past gen models. Overall, what we have here with PS5 is an ultra-futuristic design, sporting a white and black color scheme with blue highlights. I'm sure if the console was all black with a matte finish, it will add more sleekness to the console.
The Hardware specs
Let's address the meat and potatoes of the PS5, the hardware. And I must say the hardware spec sheet is very impressive. I mean, what we're witnessing here is a gaming console finally on par with a gaming a PC, well, almost. How it performs remains to be seen. We'll be gifted realistic visual gameplay all in the confines of your living while you are relaxing on your couch. Now about the hardware, the PS5 will be rocking an AMD Zen 2-based CPU with eight working cores, a 3.85GHz clock frequency, 16GB of GDDR6 memory, and a custom RDNA 2 AMD GPU that will offer up 10.28 TFLOPS of processing power. The PS5 will carry ray tracing technology. For a gaming console to have such technology is a big deal. Games will now be injected with realistic lighting into a virtual environment.
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On the storage front, this is where it gets rather interesting. Sony finally ditches the slow to a crawl spinning HDD in favor of the much faster SSD. Now storage capacity will cap out is at around 800GB ( 825GB SSD to be exact), which is rather odd. Why not just offer a full 1TB. My guess is the operating system is preinstalled, consuming a considerable portion of storage space. Either way, this should be enough storage space, considering some gaming titles can take up as much as 100GB of space. If you don't want to install games on your main boot drive, good news, any user now has the option to expand storage and load games on a secondary and external drive. There will be an NVMe SSD slot and USB HDD external support.
The Controller and other accessories
The PS5 DualSense ControllerController does mimic the Xbox controller. Though similar in design, the PS5 ControllerController does have some exciting new features and tech going on. For starters, the ControllerController features a two-tone color, a black and white color scheme. Even the face buttons vacant any color with just the imprinted signature triangle, circle, and cross or X. Sony removed the previous DualShock 4's LED light-bar from the Controller'sController's top to the surrounding touchpad on the PS5. According to Sony, this is supposed to give the LED a more extensive look and feel.
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Regarding the tech inside the PS5 controller, it includes adaptive shoulder triggers with a haptic feedback engine, a built-in microphone that enables you to engage in conversation with your gaming friends without the use of a headset, and a all-new create button that replaces the traditional share button. I want to add that the adaptive triggers technology is within the L2 and R2 buttons; the primary purpose is to allow you to feel the tension of genuine action when you draw a bow to shoot an arrow.
What might be odd to you readers is I'm more fascinated with the PS5 accessories than the console itself. You have the PS5 Dualsense Charging station, HD camera, PS5 media remote, and a pair of headphones the include 3D audio technology. Each of these accessories has a very impressive ergonomic design.
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Here's what else you need to know
According to reports, there are in total of three USB ports. Not sure if there will be any in the rear of the console, but there will be USB- C port that will primarily use to charge the controller. An industry first, the PS5 will come in two different variants, a digital version that will require no disk and a 4K Blue-ray version that will, of course, have a disc drive. Most, including myself, will likely lean toward purchasing the one with the disc drive as I like to keep an extensive collection of games on a physical disc.
Probably the most significant selling point for me is the PS5 will be backward compatible with PS4 games. The downside is unlike the Xbox Series X, not all existing games will be compatible. A representative from Sony states, "Almost all the top 100 PS4 games will work on the PS5 at launch".
There is no definitive launch date or retail price. But According to a couple of reports, the PS5 will make its market launch right before the holiday shopping season, which is the end of 2020. Even though there's no confirm price as of yet, the conceptual thinking is the console will retail for $450.
