True to its words, Sony indeed unveils the official logo of its next-generation gaming console, the PlayStation 5, at this year's CES. At the event, Sony also confirms five new features that will boost the gaming console. Considering that Sony already revealed that the PS5 will arrive sometime in the holiday of 2020, the time between now and the release window will be more about additional details of the next generation gaming console from Sony.
A wave of information about the PlayStation 5 comes at the recent Consumer Technology Association's annual trade show, and expo as the Japanese console maker unveils the official logo of the PlayStation 5 along with its five hardware features. The logo is similar to the one the company used on PlayStation 4. It is virtually identical in every way that Sony just replaced the number 4 with a 5.
More importantly, Sony talks about the five new hardware features of the PlayStation 5. it includes 3D Audio Sound, Haptics / Adaptive Triggers, Ultra-high-speed SSD, Hardware-based Ray Tracing, and Ultra HD Blu-Ray. All of these features were leaked earlier, but this is the first time that the company confirms these features included in its next-generation console. These features come on top of the earlier specs revealed by Sony Interactive Entertainment's Mark Cerny, like the CPU, which is a third-generation AMD Ryzen with eight cores and a custom AMD Radeon Navi GPU.
PlayStation 5 will support up to 8K with possibly full 4K support, backward compatibility with PlayStation 4 and PSVR hardware, and a whopping 100 GB optical disks along with a totally revamped UI. Earlier reports suggested that Sony's next-generation gaming console might arrive on Nov. 20, 2020, which aligns with the confirmed holiday 2020 release window. The release date makes sense since it would be the perfect time for the Christmas shopping period.
Recently, popular YouTuber and DJ HipHopGamer shared on his YouTube channel that Sony is working on a 'remastering engine' for the PlayStation 5. This alleged engine will enable Sony's next-generation gaming console to run older games released in older generation gaming console. It includes games released on PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4.
While the YouTuber does not say where he sources his information, the details he discussed the PlayStation 5 are now confirmed by Sony at the recent CES 2020 except for the remastering engine. We will give you the latest news and update about the PlayStation 5 as soon as we hear something interesting about Sony's next-generation gaming console.
