PLAYSTATION 5 - ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW

Regarding Sony's PlayStation 5 release date, specs and price

PLAYSTATION

 The PS5 is the next-generation for play station with a release date scheduled for late 2020 during Christmas or in November. We had our first look at the PS5 Dualsense controller and we are expecting the console to look something similar to the DualSense architecture and color design.

PlayStation 5 Price

Official price for the PlayStation 5 hasn't been announced yet as explained by Totoki (Sony's chief financial officer) "What is not very clear or visible is because we are competing in the space, so it’s very difficult to discuss anything about the price at this point of time, and depending upon the price level, we may have to determine the promotion that we are going to deploy and how much costs we are prepared to pay," . As Sony didn't quite announce it, rumors are spreading regarding the price of the PlayStation 5 in which a rumor states that the price will range around 499$ in North America.

PlayStation 5 specs

• 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

 The PlayStation 5 SSD is going to be considered the fastest SSD ever made even faster than the fastest SSD on a computer. Furthermore, it will include a custom made GPU and processor which will support backward compatibility and also it will include "Tempest 3D audio" which will improve the way gamers are going to play as they will hear sounds from all directions as if it were real.