In time for the 2020 year-end shopping season, PlayStation 5 will have ultra-realistic graphics and upgraded controllers with a more advanced form of rumbling feedback
By Takashi Mochizuki Updated Oct. 8, 2019 11:17 am ET TOKYO— Sony Corp. SNE -1.50% said it would release its next-generation videogame console, called the PlayStation 5, in time for the year-end shopping season in 2020, setting the stage for a test of the company’s most-profitable business.Sony officials had hinted that the PlayStation 5 would be coming next year but hadn’t given specifics. Rival Microsoft Corp.
The PlayStation 5 will feature beefed-up graphics including ray-tracing, a data-heavy technology to realistically simulate how light shines and reflects off objects in a fast-moving scene, Sony said. It will also have a component that allows fast boot-up of games and controllers that will have a more advanced form of rumbling feedback.
“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,” wrote Sony PlayStation chief Jim Ryan in a blog post. Anchored by the PlayStation 4 machine, Sony’s game and network services unit accounted for more than $20 billion in revenue and nearly $3 billion in operating profit for Sony in its most recent fiscal year, making it the technology and entertainment conglomerate’s biggest unit by both measures.Copyright ©2019 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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