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Sony's next console is officially the
PlayStation 5-here's what we know

veryone knew that Sony's next console
was going to be called PlayStation 5,
but Sony Interactive Entertainment
president and CEO Jim Ryan made it official
when he revealed the name to Wired.
After letting that particular cat out of the
bag, Ryan also (again, officially) announced
that the PlayStation 5 will be available starting
in the 2020 holiday season.

Prior to Ryan's announcements, the console's chief architect, Mark Cerny, had already
unveiled some of what's going to be running
under the PlayStation 5's hood. The good news
for players who hate load times is that the console will come with a solid-state drive (SSD).
Cerny told Wired back in April that the SSD in
the PS5 is currently better than anything else
on the market, meaning that load times could

PS5
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NUMBERS
2 Number of years players can be banned

from Gears 5 if they abuse the ability to quit
from multiplayer games

8.3 Update version that brings two new

races to World of Warcraft, the Vulpera and the
Mechagnomes

6+ million People who watched
Fortnite's "The End" event live
0 Resources mined by YouTuber Hedgey

before defeating Minecraft's Ender Dragon in a
special challenge run

26 minutes New world record for
beating Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas thanks
to a recently discovered glitch, down from the
previous record of just under four hours
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be faster than those on even the highestcost gaming PCs. Fast-traveling in Marvel's
Spider-Man on a PS5 dev kit took less than one
second, for reference.
Immersion, even outside of VR, also seems
to be something that the PlayStation 5 is
focusing on. One of its more impressive specs
is that the GPU will support ray-tracing-the
process that basically simulates how light
travels to more realistically bring an environment to life. The AMD chip will also improve
3D sound, which will more fully immerse
players in their games and make competitive
multiplayer games like Call of Duty even more
multisensory experiences.
Even the controller will contribute to this
immersion. Instead of the standard rumble
that's been included with PlayStation controllers ever since the original DualShock, the
PS5 controller (which Sony isn't calling the
DualShock 5... yet) will utilize haptic feedback.
This means that traveling over different stuff in
a game-rocks, grass, sand-will feel different
through the controller. Using the trigger to
pull back on a bow will give you the kind of
tensile force on your finger that you'd expect.
We still have a year until the PlayStation 5 hits
store shelves. In the meantime, though, the
PlayStation 4 still has plenty of life ahead of it.
With the recent release of Death Stranding and
the upcoming releases of The Last of Us Part II
and Ghosts of Tsushima, the Sony faithful will
have plenty to celebrate throughout 2020-
not just at the end.

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