The PS5 Is Officially Launching in Holiday 2020

The PS5 Has Been Announced

Sony officially announced its next-gen console, PS5, on Tuesday and the console is slated for a Holiday 2020 launch. This announcement comes months after Microsoft officially announced its own next-gen console, Project Scarlett, at E3 2019.

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According to Sony Interactive Entertainment President & CEO Jim Ryan, the PS5โ€™s controller is a major upgrade over the Dualshock 4 and the next-gen controller will have โ€œtwo key innovationsโ€.

โ€œFirst, weโ€™re adopting haptic feedback to replace the โ€˜rumbleโ€™ technology found in controllers since the 5th generation of consoles,โ€ Ryan said in an official PlayStation Blog post. โ€œWith haptics, you truly feel a broader range of feedback, so crashing into a wall in a race car feels much different than making a tackle on the football field. You can even get a sense for a variety of textures when running through fields of grass or plodding through mud.โ€

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โ€œThe second innovation is something we call adaptive triggers, which have been incorporated into the trigger buttons (L2/R2),โ€ Ryan continued. โ€œDevelopers can program the resistance of the triggers so that you feel the tactile sensation of drawing a bow and arrow or accelerating an off-road vehicle through rocky terrain. In combination with the haptics, this can produce a powerful experience that better simulates various actions.โ€

โ€œGame creators have started to receive early versions of the new controller, and we canโ€™t wait to see where their imagination goes with these new features at their disposal,โ€ he added.

Notably, when mentioning upcoming PS4 titles such as Death Stranding, Ryan listed Sucker Punchโ€™s Ghost of Tsushima as a PS4 title so fans should still expect it to launch on that platform. Thereโ€™s been some online speculation that the game would launch on PS5 instead.

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