Everything we know about the PlayStation 5

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theThe next generation of consoles is right on the horizon, and by this point, both Microsoft and Sony have revealed most of the major details about their respective consoles.

Sony gave us our first proper glimpse of the PlayStation 5 at a June event called “The Future of Gaming,” where it showed off the system’s strange but striking design, the discless PS5 Digital Edition, and a laundry list of exciting games. In mid-September, the company revealed the consoles’ prices and release dates alongside some more game trailers.

But even with all the details Sony has shared, a few secrets remain, and of course, anything the company has said already could always change. For now, though, here’s everything we know about the PlayStation 5.

WHAT IS THE PS5’S RELEASE DATE?

Sony will release the PlayStation 5 on Nov. 12, 2020, in the U.S., Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea. A global rollout of the PS5 — in Europe, the Middle East, South America, Asia, and South Africa — is planned for Nov. 19, 2020. (Sony said it is still exploring when it might release the PS5 in China.)

WHAT IS THE PS5’S PRICE?

The standard PlayStation 5 will cost $499.99 in the U.S., CA$629 in Canada, 49,980 yen in Japan, €499.99 in Europe, and £449.99 in the U.K.

The discless PlayStation 5 Digital Edition will cost $399.99 in the U.S., CA$499 in Canada, 39,980 yen in Japan, €399.99 in Europe, and £359.99 in the U.K.

Wondering how that compares to past PlayStation consoles? The PlayStation 4 debuted at $399.99; the PlayStation 3 started out at $499.99 (20 GB model) and $599.99 (60 GB model); and the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation both launched at $299.99.

WHAT ARE THE HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS OF THE PS5?

Brace yourselves, because we’re about to get into some tech jargon. But before we do, let’s clarify Sony’s next-gen offering. The PS5 will be available in two models: the $499.99 standard console, known simply as the “PlayStation 5,” and a $399.99 version without an optical drive, the “PlayStation 5 Digital Edition.” The presence of a 4K Blu-ray drive is the only difference between the two consoles; they otherwise have the exact same hardware specifications under the hood.

Speaking of specs: The PlayStation 5 is over 5.5 times as powerful as the launch-model PlayStation 4, and almost 2.5 times more powerful than the PlayStation 4 Pro, according to Sony. The guts of the PS5 will allow the console to deliver content at resolutions as high as 8K and frame rates up to 120 frames per second — not at the same time, mind you — with cutting-edge graphics features like hardware-accelerated real-time ray tracing.

As with the GPU, Sony opted for a variable-frequency CPU in the PS5. The company settled on a maximum clock speed of 3.5 GHz, with simultaneous multithreading (SMT) always enabled, for the eight-core chip based on AMD’s Zen 2 microarchitecture. (SMT is a technique that can significantly improve computational efficiency by spreading work across processing “threads”; it requires more effort to program for it, and the majority of modern games don’t take advantage of it.) The Xbox Series X also has an edge over the PS5 in this category, albeit a much smaller one, with a CPU that runs at a constant frequency of 3.8 GHz with SMT disabled and 3.6 GHz with SMT.The PS5 contains a custom GPU from AMD based on the company’s RDNA 2 architecture. (RDNA 2-based graphics cards don’t yet exist, but AMD plans to release them later this year.) Sony went with a variable-frequency GPU, which means that the chip’s 36 compute units will not always operate at the maximum frequency of 2.23 GHz. Its peak performance is 10.28 teraflops — a power deficit on paper of more than 15% compared to the Xbox Series X’s GPU. Both next-gen consoles have 16 GB of GDDR6 RAM.

However, Sony appears to have a trump card in the form of its unique storage solution. The company built a storage interface with a data throughput of 5.5 GB/s (raw) and 8-9 GB/s (compressed) — more than twice the read speeds of the Xbox Series X — for the console’s 825 GB SSD. That may not sound like a lot of space, but the PS5 will allow users to expand that storage by sticking an off-the-shelf NVMe SSD into the console’s expansion bay (as long as it meets the company’s certification program, to ensure compatibility).

WHAT DOES THE PS5’S DESIGN LOOK LIKE?

WHAT KIND OF GAMES WILL THE PLAYSTATION 5 HAVE?

The PlayStation 5 will have all of the third-party releases that you would expect from every console. That means that games and franchises like Call of Duty, Destiny, Fortnite, NBA 2K, and FIFA will all be on the console. But the real draw of a console is its exclusive games, and Sony is very committed to that idea.

The PlayStation 5 already has a wealth of console exclusives headed its way. Here are the console exclusives that Sony announced during its Future of Gaming event on June 11:

• Astro’s Playroom
• Deathloop
• Demon’s Souls (remake)
• Destruction AllStars
• GhostWire: Tokyo
• Gran Turismo 7
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Project Athia
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Returnal
• Sackboy A Big Adventure
• Spider-Man: Miles Morales
• Stray

In September, Sony also revealed that Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 16 is in development for PS5 as a console exclusive, and announced that a sequel to 2018’s God of War is coming to PS5 in 2021.

Here’s the launch lineup of Sony-published games. Note that Sony is raising the prices of first-party titles for this new console generation, charging anywhere from $49.99 to $69.99.

• Astro’s Playroom (free, installed on all PS5s)
• Demon’s Souls ($69.99)
• Destruction AllStars ($69.99)
• Sackboy A Big Adventure ($59.99)
• Spider-Man: Miles Morales ($49.99)
• Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition ($69.99, includes an upgraded version of the PS4 game Marvel’s Spider-Man)

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