PS5 Confirmed - Sony has Confirmed the PS5 is Coming

Sony's president and CEO, Kenichiro Yoshida has confirmed that there are plans for a successor to the PS4. Sony Interactive Entertainment America boss, Shawn Layden, officially confirmed that PS4 Pro won’t be the last we see of the PlayStation brand. Sony Interactive Entertainment chief exec John Kodera announced in May 2018 that the "PlayStation 4 is entering 'final phase' of its life-cycle."

Unless Sony is ending the PlayStation we all know what this means! The PS5 is coming, it is going to happen and it will be the best gaming console the gaming world as ever seen! Rumors are now pointing to a possible release date for the PS5 in 2019 but more likely closer to 2020. Let’s find out what Sony’s planning, shall we?

PS5 Specs - CPU, GPU, Hard Drive, Disc Drive

Welcome to our PS5 Specifications page, where we talk about the technology that will power the PS5. Our prediction puts the PS5’s release date at 2020. By the time this year rolls around, technology will be in a very different place. We will be capable of doing new and exciting things, and as the system ages, it will evolve more than any PlayStation console before it.

• CPU (Processing Power)
• GPU (Graphics)
• RAM (Memory)
• Hard Drive
• Disc Drive
• Internet / Network
• Controller
• Operating System
• Future of Gaming
• PlayStation Plus 2.0
• Security and Privacy

These are the current rumored PS5 specs:

• CPU: 8 core/16 threads at 3.2 Ghz with a Zen2 architecture
• GPU: Navy-based with AMD next-gen features at 12.6 to 14.2 teraflops
• Memory: 24 GB total with 20 GB GDDR 6 at 880 GB/S and 4 GB DDR4 for the operating system
• 2 TB HDD

Memory - RAM

Now, when I say memory, I don’t mean hard drive space. This is the kind that is used to rapidly store and access data. There are two types of emerging technologies in this field:

• 3D Stacked RAM
• NRAM

PlayStation Release Date History

PS1 Release Date	Saturday - December 3, 1994
Time Between	5 Years 3 months – 1918 days
PS2 Release Date	Saturday - March 4, 2000
Time Between	6 years and 8 months – 2444 days
PS3 Release Date	Saturday - November 11, 2006
Time Between	7 Years, 5 days – 2562 days
PS4 Release Date	Friday - Nov 15, 2013 (XBox beat - 7 days)
Time Between	7 years & 1 day - 2558 days total
PS4 Pro Release	Nov 10, 2016 (XBox 1X beat - 362 days)
Time Between	2 years, 11 months, 28 days - 1093 days total
PS5 Release Date	November 15, 2020