SONY PLAYSTATION 5 TO LAUNCH NOVEMBER

We finally have more Sony PlayStation 5 information, namely its Sh45,000 starting price and release date.

Every system lives and dies by its games though. The PS5 live showcase back in June included trailers for tons of awesome games scheduled for the PS5, while the September 16 event delivered as well.

The pricing announcement sets the stage for a year-end showdown between Xbox and PlayStation, as consumers continue to flock to gaming optimised consoles offering exclusive titles.

Sony, which is making a stylistic departure from recent generations with the predominantly white PS5, is offering the game console without a disk drive as digital downloads become standard.

It is a very different-looking console to the PS4, with its space-age black-and-white color scheme looking a little different to PlayStations of the past. There’s more than one PS5 console releasing this year, though, as Sony has also confirmed it’s going to be releasing a PS5 Digital Edition – a streamlined, digital-only console without a disc drive.

Upcoming titles unveiled for the PS5 include platform exclusives Final Fantasy XVI from Square Enix, a new God of War title from Sony’s Santa Monica Studio and a Harry Potter role-playing game among many others.

The announcement bolsters PlayStation’s line-up following the reveal of a slew of titles including Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales from in-house studio Insomniac Games in June. That title will also be available on the PlayStation 4, Sony said.

Sony’s fantastic games line-up shows it is “more aggressively betting on exclusives” with “Microsoft focused on cheaper entry prices to get users into the Xbox ecosystem,” said Serkan Toto, founder of game industry consultancy Kantan Games.

The PlayStation 5 will go on sale on November 12 in the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea and on November 19 in the rest of the world.