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PlayStation 5
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The PlayStation 5 (PS5) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It was announced as the successor to the PlayStation 4 in April 2019, was launched on November 12, 2020, in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, North America, and South Korea, and was released worldwide a week later. The PS5 is part of the ninth generation of video game consoles, along with Microsoft's Xbox Series X/S consoles, which were released in the same month.
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Also known as | PS5 |
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Developer | Sony Interactive Entertainment |
Manufacturer | Sony, Foxconn |
Product family | PlayStation |
Type | Home video game console |
Generation | Ninth |
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Units sold | 50 million (as of December 20, 2023[update])[1] |
Units shipped | 59.3 million (as of March 31, 2024[update])[2] |
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CPU | Custom 8-core AMD Zen 2 Variable frequency up to 3.5 GHz |
Memory | 16 GB/256-bit GDDR6 SDRAM 512 MB DDR4 RAM (used as SSD controller cache)[3] |
Storage | Custom 825 GB (2020-22) or 1 TB (2023) PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD |
Removable storage | Internal PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD upgradeable up to 8TB External USB-based HDD or SSD up to 8TB |
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Graphics | Custom AMD RDNA 2 36 CUs Variable frequency up to 2.23 GHz 10.3 TFLOPS peak |
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Controller input | DualSense, DualShock 4, PlayStation Move, PS5 Media Remote, PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers |
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Online services | PlayStation Network PlayStation Plus |
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Backward compatibility | Almost all PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR games |
Predecessor | PlayStation 4 |
Website | playstation.com/ps5 |
The base model includes an optical disc drive compatible with Ultra HD Blu-ray discs. The Digital Edition lacks this drive, as a lower-cost model for buying games only through download. The two variants were launched simultaneously. Slimmer hardware revisions of both models replaced the original models on sale in November 2023.[4]
The PlayStation 5's main hardware features include a solid-state drive customized for high-speed data streaming to enable significant improvements in storage performance, an AMD GPU capable of 4K resolution display at up to 120 frames per second, hardware-accelerated ray tracing for realistic lighting and reflections, and the Tempest Engine for hardware-accelerated 3D audio effects. Other features include the DualSense controller with haptic feedback, backward compatibility with the majority of PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR games, and the PlayStation VR2 headset.