PlayStation 5

Updated June 8: Following the earlier postponement, Sony has revealed a new date for the event. It will take place a week later than planned, on June 11, again at 2000 UTC.

If you’ve been waiting eagerly to get a look at Sony’s next-gen PlayStation 5, we might have some good news for you. According to some pretty solid industry chatter, the Japanese electronics brand is getting set to whip those covers off — in a little over two weeks.

Although we’re expecting the new PlayStation 5 to debut at the end of the year, we were thinking more November/December time — just ready for the big gaming boom at Christmas. What we weren’t expecting was for it to arrive in October, but that’s precisely what a job-posting for the electronics giant said.

Fans waiting for new details about Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 5 can now get a first look at how they’ll be playing their next generation games. It’s not the console, rather the new controller.

Update: We’ve updated this article to reflect the Xbox Series S announcements, and the more recent PlayStation 5 price and date reveal.

Sony has taken to its official blog to clear up a point of order from its ‘deep-dive’ technical presentation earlier in the week.

Kylotonn Games has confirmed a release date for its next installment in the WRC series, the official game of the FIA World Rally Championship. WRC 9 will arrive on current generation consoles — Xbox One and PlayStation 4 — this September, with a Switch version to follow. However, more importantly, KT has also revealed that the game will appear on next-gen consoles too. That makes it the first fully confirmed PlayStation 5 title.

PlayStation 5 lead system architect Mark Cerny has unveiled the specifications of the next-generation console in a live-streamed version of the planned, but cancelled, Game Developers Conference presentation.

If you’ve been waiting on the edge of your seat for a PlayStation 5 update, wait no more. Sony, it seems, is ready to reveal all on the next-generation games console, and it’s coming tomorrow.

If you’re champing at the bit for the full PlayStation 5 reveal, we’ve got two more dates for you to strike from your calendar. Sony has announced that it is withdrawing from two games industry events over the next month, due to concerns over the coronavirus outbreak.

A report from Bloomberg has suggested that Sony’s next-generation PlayStation 5 console may be getting expensive to make due to supply issues. The site estimates each unit costs around $450 to make — 20% more than the PS4 at launch — and this may have a knock-on effect on the console’s market price.

Sony has sparked a new round of internet rumors about the upcoming PlayStation 5 console, by updating its website to reflect the new device.

It looks like the long wait to see the next generation of PlayStation may be over, with industry rumors pointing to the PS5’s grand reveal in February.

The new year is off to a fantastic start for video game players. Earlier this week at the Consumer Electronics Show, Sony Interactive president and CEO Jim Ryan pulled the wraps off the logo for the PlayStation 5. Synonymous with the brand’s visual image thus far, it’s nothing out of the ordinary.

Several days into the new year and things are already heating up for the next generation of video game consoles.

It’s finally official: Sony has confirmed the name of its next-generation home gaming console. Shockingly, it’s going with… PlayStation 5.

Although information is gathering at some pace about Sony’s next console, it seems that PlayStation is not forgetting about its past offerings.

Sony continues to slowly provide gamers with morsels of info on its next-gen PlayStation. We’ve now got the first comparison video showcasing the system’s vastly reduced loading times.

Earlier today we got our first official word on Sony’s next-generation PlayStation console. The report focused on hardware, but an old rumor aligns with it so well it could give a hint as to the software too.

In a rather unprecedented move, Sony has set the record straight on what gamers can expect from its next-generation console.