Augmented & Virtual Reality Confabulation
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Sony has offered the first details on the hardware for the yet-unnamed PS5 console. The system will not be releasing in 2019, but it will be backward compatible with PlayStation 4 games.
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Sony has just confirmed that its current PSVR headset will be compatible with the next PlayStation console.
The company revealed as much in a new article in Wired. Mark Cerny, the system architect behind the PS4, confirmed that the company is working on a next-generation PlayStation. It’s not called PS5 yet, but it could well be in the future. The article notes that the console will come with a more powerful GPU and CPU with an AMD chip. The latter is based on AMD’s Ryzen line. The GPU, meanwhile, is apparently a variant of Radeon’s Navi line and supports ray tracing.
The biggest draw of the article, though, is a new solid-state drive that claims to drastically reduce load times in games. A demo of Sony’s Spider-Man, for example, cut out fast travel times when accessing the in-game map.
As for VR, Cerny had just one thing to say. “I won’t go into the details of our VR strategy today,” he stated, “beyond saying that VR is very important to us and that the current PSVR headset is compatible with the new console.”
Crucially, though, Cerny also confirms that the console will be backward compatible with the PS4. That makes it likely that we’ll still be able to play the same PSVR games we enjoy today on the next PlayStation. As for if the current PSVR will play new VR games exclusive to the console, Cerny didn’t say. Again, though, it’s likely that we see a new version of the headset for that purpose.
The next PlayStation won’t be releasing this year, but certain developers are already working on it.
That’s quite the bombshell. We’ve seen plenty of Sony patents in the past few months, each of which points towards what PSVR 2 could look like. For now, though, VR fans will at least have a place to play in the next PlayStation.
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Images and documents in the Japan Patent Office appear to suggest that Sony is planning a wireless version of the PlayStation VR headset. It isn’t clear which system it will be used for.
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Sony submitted a patent application for a robotic device equipped with a camera to assist in your workout. The images included suggest that the device will work with your PlayStation console.
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A new report from industry analyst Daniel Ahmad claims that the majority of Sony's first-party studios have shifted their focus to the unannounced PlayStation 5 console. Sony will not attend E3 this year.
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For the first time in the event's history, E3 2019 will not feature Sony or PlayStation. The massive event almost always features a lengthy press conference from Sony, often after all other major companies give theirs.
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Sony has finally confirmed that it is working on the next-generation successor to the PlayStation 4, though the company stopped short of revealing what the name would be. We have a pretty good guess.
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According to an interview posted on the Financial Times (and referenced by IGN) Sony’s CEO Kenichiro Yoshida said, “At this point, what I can say is it’s necessary to have a next-generation hardware”. The company isn’t calling it a PlayStation 5 yet and there’s no word of PSVR or PSVR 2 at all, but some sort of VR support is essentially a given at this point.
Last month, Yoshida even said that improvements and evolutions are still being worked on for PSVR, so I’d say it’s a good sign for prospects of PSVR continuing to exist as a strategy for Sony going forward.
Alternatively, Microsoft is less sure about console-powered VR, going as far as canceling plans for Xbox One’s VR support, but they did confirm work on a next-generation console at this year’s E3 already. It seems like a no-brainer to enable Windows VR headset support on a future Xbox console.
Additionally, there is a patent floating around about backwards compatibility that may be possible for PS4 games on the new console, which could be a great sign for current generation PSVR games as well.
What do you think of this news? Are you surprised a PS5 is being worked on? Let us know what you think down in the comments below!
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E3 always sets the tone for gaming over the following year. The 2018 show made it clear that games are becoming more diverse both in characters, and in the ways game publishers choose to launch them into the world
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Sony Corp. again today reiterated that you shouldn’t expect to see the next PlayStation console anytime soon.
Speaking to The Wall Street Journal a day after noting that the company’s current console, the PS4, was reaching the end of its lifespan, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Tsuyoshi Kodera stated that it would be another three years before PlayStation made its next big move.
“We will use the next three years to prepare the next step, to crouch down so that we can jump higher in the future,” he said.
Wall Street’s report doesn’t make mention of what this might mean for PlayStation VR (PSVR), Sony’s virtual reality headset that’s powered by PS4. We’ve long assumed that any such successor to the headset would arrive on Sony’s next console, presumably to take advantage of increased processing power alongside any other new features. With this report, is it safe to assume PSVR 2 is at least three years out as well?
Elsewhere, Kodera reportedly stated that Sony was looking to incorporate ‘better mobility’ into PlayStation, perhaps suggesting that the next console might find ways to compete with Nintendo’s Switch console/portable hybrid device. Again, we can’t help but wonder what that might mean for VR; could a more portable PlayStation perhaps mean and all-new form factor for PSVR, too? It’s going to be a long few years of questions before we get some answers.