{"id":24492,"date":"2019-06-18T15:38:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/blog\/?p=24492"},"modified":"2019-06-18T15:40:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:40:24","slug":"ps5-everything-we-know-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/ps5-everything-we-know-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"PS5: Everything We Know So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While a <span style=\"color: #66cc92;\"><a style=\"color: #66cc92;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/blog\/best-playstation-4-bundles-to-buy-in-sa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Playstation 4 is still very-much a great purchase<\/a><\/span> and investment from a gaming point of view, Sony is readying to reveal its successor, the PS5, sometime within the next 12 months. But, before Sony unveil their next home console, let&#8217;s take a look at everything we know about the Playstation 5.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the information on the PS5 we currently know comes from lead system architect Mark Cerny, who released a few tidbits of information regarding what the next system will entail.<\/p>\n<p>The first of these big changes are in its CPU and GPUs (which will be v<strong>ariants of the AMD Ryzen 3rd gen<\/strong> and <strong>Radeon\u2019s Navi<\/strong> respectively) that will make the console capable of \u2018ray-tracing\u2019 \u2013 a high-performance graphics technique that offers some pretty crazy results that are on display in the video below. Cerny also mentioned the <strong>PS5 will support 8K visuals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"arve-wrapper\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-n68s9I28AvY\" style=\"max-width:702px;\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n<div class=\"arve-embed-container\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.250000%\"><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/n68s9I28AvY?iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=1&amp;autoplay=0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" frameborder=\"0\" name sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/n68s9I28AvY?iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;autoplay=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Another huge bit of information is that the PS5 will utilise a <strong>Solid-State Drive (SSD)<\/strong>, meaning the speed that it accesses stored data at will be immensely upgraded. A demonstration by Cerny used to showcase this is the fast-travel function on Insomniac&#8217;s<span style=\"color: #66cc92;\"><a style=\"color: #66cc92;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/blog\/why-spider-man-is-your-must-buy-game-of-the-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> Spider-Man<\/em><\/a><\/span>. On a PS4 Pro it took 15 seconds while the SSD equipped devkit pulled it off in 0.8 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest discussions around new consoles is the implementation (or lack thereof) of\u00a0<strong>backwards compatibility<\/strong>, allowing players to play previously-released games for older systems on the new one. According to a <span style=\"color: #66cc92;\"><a style=\"color: #66cc92;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sony.net\/SonyInfo\/IR\/library\/download\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sony Corporate Strategy Presentation<\/a>,<\/span> it suggests that the <strong>PS5&#8217;s backwards compatibility extends to the PS4 library<\/strong> only and <strong>supports physical PS4 discs<\/strong> \u2013 so it\u2019s definitely better than nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding its appearance, there&#8217;s little information so far as even the final case design is likely still in development. That said, it&#8217;s safe to assume that the PS5 won&#8217;t stray too far from the slick, all-black theme of past iterations.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for a PS4 console, check out <span style=\"color: #66cc92;\"><a style=\"color: #66cc92;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/blog\/best-playstation-4-bundles-to-buy-in-sa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our feature<\/a><\/span> where we take a look at the best PS4 bundles available!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/categories\/200\/Games?utm_source=blog.pricecheck.co.za&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=blog_PS5_Everything_We_Know_So_Far&amp;utm_content=PS5_Everything_We_Know_So_Far\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Buttons_ViewOffers.png\" alt=\"view offers\" width=\"272\" height=\"52\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-container cf\">\n<div class=\"post-content-right\">\n<div class=\"post-content description \">\n<h5>Check out\u00a0<span style=\"color: #66cc92;\"><a style=\"color: #66cc92;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/categories\/200\/Games?utm_source=blog.pricecheck.co.za&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=blog_Best_Playstation_4_Bundles_to_Buy_in_SA&amp;utm_content=Best_Playstation_4_Bundles_to_Buy_in_SA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more gaming deals on Pricecheck here<\/a><\/span>; and keep up to date on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #66cc92;\"><a style=\"color: #66cc92;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/category\/tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the latest gaming happenings on the blog<\/a><\/span>.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Playstation 5 is coming \u2013 here&#8217;s what you need to know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[4669,1821,1601,4103,4668,639,4667,1614,4666,4672,718,4670,4671,3218,792],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/PS5.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24492"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24495,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24492\/revisions\/24495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}