PlayStation 5: Sony reveals PS5 console and games – as it happened

Join us as we cover the PlayStation 5 announcement live from 9pm BST/1pm PDT

10.42pm BST

Well, that's it for the PlayStation 5 event this evening. Clearly, the focus was on games rather than hardware - at least until the end - and fans got what they wanted, beginning with an enhanced GTA V and moving on through new Spider-Man, Horizon Zero Dawn, Hitman and Ratchet & Clank titles. The finale was the reveal of the PlayStation 5 console itself, a radical re-think of the machine's lineage, abandoning the all black colouring we've seen in the last three machines in favour of a futuristic white and black monolith.

Compared to the recent Xbox Series X games stream, which focused on original indie titles, this was something of a fan-pleasing big brand onslaught from Sony [Update: there were also plenty of interesting independent titles too, including Stray and Little Devil Inside, making this a more rounded presentation]. But we're yet to discover how many of these titles are exclusives, or even timed exclusives, beyond the first party games.

10.22pm BST

They saved it right til the end, but Sony has finally revealed the form factor of the PlayStation 5, an ultra futuristic robot white machine, with gliding lines and a black central stratum. This is a really radical look, like something out of an Alex Garland script. The console will come in two versions: a standard model and a digital machine. It'll be accompanied by a 3D camera.