Sony will be a no-show this year at E3. This is not stopping the company from sharing some details regarding the PlayStation 5.
CNET spoke with Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan who confirms the PS5 will come with an SSD by default, instead of the slower HDD like the PS4. It will also support 4K graphics at a 120Hz refresh rate, which will offer a smoother look on displays that can handle the faster speed. Additionally game saves will be able to transfer between console generations, so you can pick up where you left off when you start playing a game again on the new console.
Ryan also said that Sony plans to take the PlayStation Now game streaming service “to the next level later this year.” He didn’t elaborate on his statement but within the last couple of week, Sony signed a deal to work with Microsoft on game streaming tech.
A big priority from Sony is clear hurdles to accelerate early adoption thus making the transition between console generations easier. The logistics of how Sony will accomplishing transferring game saves is still unknown but Ryan suggests it can be done by streaming the game on PlayStation Now, or because the PS5 is backward compatible with a PS4 game.
“When everything is networked and everybody is connected and everybody is friends, the opportunity — with backward compatibility — to migrate that community in a more efficient manner I think is massively more attractive for gamers and for us than at any point in the past,” Ryan told the Financial Times.
As of now, we know the PS5 will support 8K graphics and run off of an eight-core CPU based on AMD’s Ryzen chips, with a GPU based on AMD’s Radeon hardware.
Sony has yet to formally announce a release date, but the PlayStation 5 is expected to arrive next year.
