Sony PS5 Release Date and Price : News & Specification

PS5-$499.99 / Digital Edition- $399.99 - sony ps5 release date November 19

PlayStation (PS5) is Sony’s long-awaited next-generation console, launches November 19, 2020.
With its next-generation console, Sony is certainly aiming for a home run. But can it pack enough punch like the PS4 did to woo gamers around the world? Here’s what we know so far about the PS5. Please be sure to bookmark this page as we will update it as additional information comes to light.

PlayStation®5 Specifications

CPU

x86-64-AMD Ryzen™ “Zen 2”
8 Cores / 16 Threads
Variable frequency, up to 3.5 GHz

GPU

AMD Radeon™ RDNA 2-based graphics engine
Ray Tracing Acceleration
Variable frequency, up to 2.23 GHz (10.3 TFLOPS)

System Memory

GDDR6 16GB
448GB/s Bandwidth

SSD

825GB
5.5GB/s Read Bandwidth (Raw)

Optical Drive

Ultra HD Blu-ray (66G/100G) ~10xCAV
BD-ROM (25G/50G) ~8xCAV
BD-R/RE (25G/50G) ~8xCAV
DVD ~3.2xCLV

PS5 Game Disc

Ultra HD Blu-ray, up to 100GB/disc

Video Out

HDMI™ OUT port
Support of 4K 120Hz TVs, 8K TVs, VRR (specified by HDMI ver.2.1)

Audio

“Tempest” 3D AudioTech

Dimensions

PS5: Approx. 390mm x 104mm x 260mm (width x height x depth)
(excludes largest projection, excludes Base)
PS5 Digital Edition: Approx. 390mm x 92mm x 260mm (width x height x depth)
(excludes largest projection, excludes Base)

Weight

PS5: 4.5kg
PS5 Digital Edition: 3.9kg

Power

PS5: 350W
PS5 Digital Edition: 340W

Input/Output

USB Type-A port (Hi-Speed USB)
USB Type-A port (Super-Speed USB 10Gbps) x2
USB Type-C® port (Super-Speed USB 10Gbps)

Networking

Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T)
IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax
Bluetooth® 5.1

DualSense™ Wireless Controller Specifications

Dimensions

Approx. 160mm x 66mm x 106mm (excludes largest projection) (width x height x depth)

Weight

Approx. 280g

Buttons

PS button, Create button, Options button,
Directional buttons (Up/Down/Left/Right), Action buttons (Triangle, Circle, Cross, Square),
R1/L1 button,
R2/L2 button (with Trigger Effect)
Left stick / L3 button, Right stick / R3 button, Touch Pad button, MUTE button

Touch Pad

2 Point Touch Pad, Capacitive Type, Click Mechanism

Motion Sensor

Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope + three-axis accelerometer)

Audio

Built-in Microphone Array, Built-in Mono Speaker, Stereo Headset Jack
Output : 48kHz/16bit, Input : 24kHz/16bit

Feedback

Trigger Effect (on R2/L2 button), Vibration (haptic feedback by dual actuators),
Indicators (Light bar / Player indicator / MUTE status)

Ports

USB Type-C® port (Hi-Speed USB), Stereo Headset Jack, Charging Terminals

Communication

Wireless

Bluetooth® Ver5.1

Wired

USB connection (HID, Audio)

Ports

USB Type-C® port (Hi-Speed USB), Stereo Headset Jack, Charging Terminals

Ports

USB Type-C® port (Hi-Speed USB), Stereo Headset Jack, Charging Terminals

Battery

Type

Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery

Voltage

DC 3.65V

Capacity

1,560mAh

What is the next-generation console - PlayStation 5 ?

The PS5 is an upcoming next-gen console from Sony. It offering more powerful specs and a space-age interface, is a huge leap forward from its predecessor. The new Xbox Series X and the Nintendo Switch will be its biggest rivals.

With its space-age black-and-white colour scheme looking a bit different from the PlayStations 4, the Playstation 5 is a very different-looking console to the Playstation 4.There’s more than one PS5 console releasing this year, though, as Sony has also confirmed it’s going to be releasing a PS5 Digital Edition – a streamlined, digital-only console without a disc drive.

As for the PlayStation 5 controller, well before we saw the console, we got an official look at it. Sony calls it Dual Sense, and to date, it’s the greatest style divergence from any PlayStation controller. Also a departure is the black-and-white color scheme that is bold – and likely to be divisive. That’s the confirmed design in the picture below, and it’s closely mirrored by the PS5 console design, as you’ve already seen.

Sony also announced that the controller is venturing haptic feedback, adaptive triggers and an integrated microphone array. It also comes with a USB-C charging port and Sony replaces the Share button with a brand new Build button, but it has not yet disclosed what it does. We expect to see it released alongside the PS5 with a standalone price of $69.99.

sony ps5 release date & price

In the US and a few other select markets, the Sony PlayStation 5 release date is now scheduled for November 12, 2020. A few other major markets are predicted to arrive only a week later (November 19).
For the standard version, the PS5 price is set at $499, or $399 for the Digital Version. Although the former is the same as the Xbox Series X, $100 is actually cheaper than the PS5 Digital, the all-digital Series S. The PS5 Digital is better than the Xbox Series S, but it’s still worth remembering that if you opt for Microsoft, the barrier to next-gen entry is cheaper.

What are the Differences between PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition ?

Difference between the PS5 and the PS5 Digital Edition, Owing to the missing optical drive, the designs are slightly different. The PS5 Digital Version looks a little better if we’re being honest, as the bulge added by the drive throws off the symmetry of the unit. If you’re getting the PS5 Digital Edition over the regular model you will have to buy the games digitally also you don’t have the option of getting games or sharing from friends but you can save some money on this.

The PS5 will allure some serious improvements over the PS4, according to PlayStation 5 Lead System Architect Mark Cerny.

Compresion between specification of PS4 and PS5

Popular video games like Fortnite, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Minecraft, among others turned on NVIDIA RTX real-time ray-tracing technology. On a concluding note, Huang stated that the second-generation NVIDIA RTX fusing programmable shading, ray tracing and AI would provide photorealistic graphics and the highest frame rates simultaneously.

PlayStation 5

PlayStation 4

CPU

8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz with SMT (variable frequency)

8x Jaguar Cores at 1.6GHz

GPU

10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz (Custom RDNA 2 architecture)

1.84 TFLOPs, 18 CUs at 800MHz (Custom GCN architecture)

RAM

16GB GDDR6/256-bit

8GB GDDR5/256-bit

Internal Storage

Custom 825GB SSD

500GB HDD

Expandable Storage

NVMe SSD slot

Replaceable internal HDD

External Storage

USB HDD support

IO Throughput

5.5GB/s (Raw), Typical 8-9GB/s (Compressed)

Approx 50-100MB/s (dependent on data location on HDD)

Memory Bandwidth

448GB/s

176GB/s

Optical Drive

4K UHD Blu-ray Drive

Blu-ray Drive

The PS5 is rocking an AMD Zen 2-based CPU with 8 cores at 3.5GHz, 16GB of GDDR6 memory, and a custom RDNA 2 AMD GPU that puts out 10.28 TFLOPs of processing power. This combination of CPU and GPU will allow the PS5 to use acceleration in ray tracing. Ray tracing is an innovative lighting technique that can take in-game graphics to a whole new level by mimicking the way light interacts in an environment more realistically.

For the PlayStation 5 experience, the SSD is playing the critical role. Internal capacity for the custom SSD will be built in at 825 GB – that’s less than you’ll find in the Xbox Series X, but with just as smart a technology implementation. SSDs not only load faster but potentially allow for larger open worlds. Because of the limitations of mechanical hard drives, developers don’t need to create games with smaller worlds while SSDs would also allow machine memory to be used more effectively.

You’ll also have more control over how you install and remove games, meaning you could just install a game’s multiplayer mode rather than the full block of data. This will allow for the launch of direct game play, allowing players to jump straight into aspects of different games without having to boot up the full game.

Epic Games has actually revealed that the SSD of the PS5 is so fast that to take full advantage of it, the developer had to rework its Unreal Engine 5 software demo.

“The ability to stream content at intense speeds helps developers to create denser and more detailed worlds, changing the way we think about streaming content,” Nick Penwarden, engineering vice president of Epic Games, told VG247. “It’s so impactful that we have rewritten our core I / O subsystems for Unreal Engine with the PlayStation 5 in mind.”

The new custom AMD computing unit-based Tempest Engine of the console is the last big thing Sony revealed during the PS5 deep-dive. This new technology will allow gamers to experience high-quality 3D in-game audio with even the most simple headphones or speakers using custom Head-related Transfer Function (HRTF) maps.

PS5 Games

In addition, PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan told the Washington Post in mid-September that “99 percent” of PS4 games can be played on the PS5. The company confirmed it will be compatible with “the vast majority of the 4,000 + PS4 franchises.”

At launch, the PlayStation 5 will be backward-compatible with almost any PlayStation 4 title.
We will not only see backward compatibility with PS4 games, but expect that any newly released first-party PS4 game, such as Ghost of Tsushima, will be cross-gen titles (although Sony has not yet committed to this). Furthermore, any new first-party PS4 games submitted to Sony for certification after July 13 must be PS5 compatible, making them essentially forward-compatible titles.

We’re going to list a few of the most famous games below to give you a taste of what to expect:

Hogwarts Legacy
Dying Light 2
Godfall
Watch Dogs: Legion
Rainbow Six: Quarantine
Starfield
Elder Scrolls 6
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
Lord Of The Rings: Gollum
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
Maquette
Heavenly Bodies
Recompile
Worms Rumble

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Gran Turismo 7
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Project Athia
Returnal
Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Destruction AllStars
Oddworld Soulstorm
GhostWire: Tokyo
Hitman 3
NBA 2K21
Demon’s Souls
Resident Evil Village
Horizon Forbidden West

The titles confirmed to be available at launch are; God of War, Bloodborne, Monster Hunter, Final Fantasy XV, Fallout 4, Mortal Kombat X, Uncharted 4, Ratchet & Clank, Days Gone, Until Dawn, Detroit, Battlefield 1, inFamous Second Son, Batman Arkham Knight, The Last Guardian, The Last of Us Remastered, Persona 5 and Resident Evil 7 Biohazard.