Sony Unveils New Playstation Console

Sony has unveiled the fifth generation of it extremly succesfull gaming console Playstation. During the online event, the Japanese tech giant presented new games, including exclusive titles, and finished with unveiling Playstation 5 design.

The design of the console is black and white and follows the DualSense controller that was revealed earlier this year. The system will be available with 4K Blu-ray drive and as a pure Digital Edition without optical drive. The console can be placed on the surface horizontally or vertically. Sony also announced a number of accessories for the PS5, including a DualSense charging station, a new HD camera, a Pulse 3D wireless headset, and a media remote.

Hardware specs were already announced mid-March. The PS5 will feature a custom eight-core AMD Zen 2 CPU clocked at 3.5GHz (with variable frequency) and a custom GPU based on AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture hardware that promises 10.28 teraflops and 36 compute units clocked at 2.23GHz (also variable frequency). It’ll also have 16GB of GDDR6 RAM and a custom 825GB SSD that Sony has previously promised will offer super-fast loading times in gameplay.

The new version of Playstation will support most of the games from its predecessor, about 4,000 titles. The initial launch was announced for December, and the pricing is not yet revealed.