Mark Cerny, Lead System Architect for PlayStation, has confirmed Sony’s next generation console, set to replace the PS4 and PS4 Pro.
In an exclusive interview with Wired, Cerny detailed that the console has been in development for the last four years, is no “mere upgrade”, and won’t be released in 2019. He went on to confirm that the console, which will likely be called the PS5, will include some serious hardware.
“The CPU is based on the third generation of AMD’s Ryzen line and contains eight cores of the company’s new 7nm Zen 2 microarchitecture. The GPU, a custom variant of Radeon’s Navi family, will support ray tracing, a technique that models the travel of light to simulate complex interactions in 3D environments. While ray tracing is a staple of Hollywood visual effects and is beginning to worm its way into high-end processors and Nvidia’s recently announced RTX line, no game console has been able to manage it. Yet.”
The console will also support backwards compatibility with PS4 games, support 8k and will feature a custom Solid State Drive that will load faster than current gaming PCs.
Sony’s next generation console will still contain an optical drive.
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