Sony confirms the PlayStation 5 is coming in 2020, reveals new hardware details

Enlarge / Sony's DualShock 4 controller for the current-generation PlayStation. The report says the new controller looks similar but has major new haptic features. (credit: Mark Walton)

Sony representatives have revealed substantial new details about the company's upcoming PlayStation 5 console in an interview with Wired. New features and improvements will include sophisticated haptics in the controller, hardware ray tracing, and a UI that lets users see in-game information before launching a game. Additionally, Sony confirmed that the console will be called the PlayStation 5 and that it will launch before the holidays in 2020.

Mark Cerny, the architect of the PlayStation 4, has returned as chief architect for the PlayStation 5. Earlier this year, he sat down with Wired to demonstrate Sony's work to eliminate load times with extremely fast solid-state drives and improved software stacks and I/O to accompany them. In that demonstration, a fast-travel load in Spider-Man went from 19 seconds on current PS4 hardware to less than one second on new hardware.

Today's interview touched on SSDs again, expanding upon the previous discussion to highlight additional benefits of the next-generation SSD-something that Microsoft has said it will include in its own next-generation console as well, also due in late 2020.

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