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Everything You Need to Know About the Upcoming PlayStation 5

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Everything You Need to Know About the Upcoming PlayStation 5

PlayStation is a name every gamer and even non-gamer is familiar with. The gaming console hit the market in 1994 and has been a massive hit ever since. Sony has taken a simplistic approach when it comes to naming the console. Sony has stuck to numbers and has not taken the fancy and uncanny approach of adding Max, Super, or Ultra; Only PlayStation 2, 3, and 4 is apt. The approach has not changed with the latest addition, which is named PlayStation 5. Jim Ryan, who is the CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Department, announced the console and stated that doing so has lifted a massive burden from his shoulders.

The PlayStation is going to be released in the holiday season of 2020, and gamers worldwide are excited about it. There has not been much information from the side of Sony ever since April, but it is said to be the next-gen console. Sony even went on to skip the E3 show this year, where Microsoft took the stage to announce its successor to Xbox One. The project is named Project Scarlett, and it will pack a GPU designed on its Navi family and a CPU designed on AMD’s Ryzen line, much like the PS5. PS5 and Project Scarlett both will replace the spinning hard drive with a solid-state drive.

Ryan and the system architect Mark Cerny shared the specs for PS5 at the Sony’s US headquarters. Cerny previously announced that the console would feature ray-tracing, which is a technique that facilitates 3D environment sound effects and sophisticated lightning as well. Cerny feared that the announcement might have been a little ambiguous as he did not provide specifics about it. He went to clarify that the addition was not resulted due to mere software patch up.

The solid-state drive can reduce the loading time to mere seconds, and it offers enhanced efficiency as well. He explained it by using a vinyl record as a metaphor. If you think of hard drive as quick-spinning vinyl records, then you would understand that the console first has to send the data to the disk head like a needle, in order to locate it. Every read takes minimal time, but it keeps getting added, to which the developers duplicate some game assets. This forms contiguous data blocks and fastens ups the data reading process.

A game like Spider-Man duplicates the data over 400 times on the hard disk. The solid-state drive wipes away the need for the duplicating process. It helps you save up vital space and significantly speeds up the reading process as well. It depends on the developers as to how they utilize this. They may opt to create large detailed worlds or shrink the patch or game size. In either scenario, physical games for PS5 will cover 100-GB optical disks. This will double to a 4K Blu-ray player when inserted into an optical drive.

Now coming to the controller, which Cerny was reasonably excited to talk about. It is rumored to be called DualShock 5, but Cerny denied it, saying that there has not been any name decided for it. The first unique feature the controller will come with is adaptive triggers. The triggers will change its resistance depending on the activity, which can make shooting an arrow out of a bow feel realistic. Games that use guns will have enhanced the experience as the use of a shotgun will now differ discretely from the use of a machine gun.

When you combine this with an enhanced speaker, the duo can offer some drastic improvements. Toshi Aoki, who is the product manager, said that the controller team has been processing feedback ever since the development of DualShock 4. The team could have added the enhancements in the mid-way distribution of PS4 Pro, but that would have differed the experience of gamers.

Nobody can predict how the developers will process the games according to these changes, but it will be an enhanced experience, that is for sure. The latest console rolls out next year, which makes the wait all the more tough to bear.

Ava Williams is a McAfee product expert and has been working in the technology industry since 2002. As a technical expert, Ava has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as mcafee.com/activate.

Source url:- https://williamsblogpoint.wordpress.com/2019/10/11/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-upcoming-playstation-5/

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