Sony has officially announced the launch date as well as the pricing of its newest PlayStation consoles – the PlayStation 5 will retail for $499 while the disc-less PS5 Digital Edition is priced at $399.
Both consoles are expected to become available on 12 November in the US, Japan, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea, before launching in the rest of the world on 19 November.
System Specs and Features
As previously revealed, the PlayStation 5 is running on a system similar to a high-end gaming PC. It features an 8 core Zen 2-based AMD CPU running at 3.5ghz. Its GPU is completely customised and based off of AMD’s next-generation RDNA 2 architecture capable of generating 10.28 teraflops.
The whole system shares 16GB of GDDR6 memory with a 256bit interface and has an 825GB custom SSD for internal storage.
| CPU | AMD Zen 2 (8-Core 3.5GHz) |
| GPU | AMD RDNA 2 (10.28 TFLOPS) |
| RAM | 16GB GDDR6 |
| Internal storage | 825GB SSD |
| Expandable storage | NVMe SSD |
| External Storage | USB External HDD Support |
| I/O Throughput | 5.5GB/s |
| Optical Drive | 4K Blu-Ray |
Sony has also added a number of new accessories with the console. Including a wireless headset, a camera – probably for use with PSVR – a charging dock for the controllers, a media remote for users who use their consoles to watch Netflix, for example.
The camera has dual 1080p lenses that be used for streaming, and the media remote will have a mic for voice commands.
The console’s final design is vastly different from the company’s previous iterations. No longer will the PlayStation be a matte black box, but a gleaming white machine finished with aesthetic curves and wings.
