Gamers salivating over Sony PS5

New dynamic lighting effects will help create surreal, ultra-realistic gaming environments that should immerse players in the gameplay and storylines, if there are any

The reveal of the Sony PS5 has created such a stir not only with its space-age looks, but the tech specs that promise hours and hours of fun for hardcore gamers.

Boasting of fast-access SSD storage, the PS5 can be expected to cut loading times of even the most graphics-intensive titles, a lot of which have been mentioned by Sony to whet appetites.

Some of the titles that will be readily available for the vaunted platform are Marvel’s

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There’s plenty of time to save for your PS5 because it is expected to retail in the later part of 2020, in time for the Yuletide holidays. It will come in two variants — a regular edition and a PS5 Digital Edition, both boasting of ray tracing for jaw-dropping visuals. The Digital Edition will not sport a disc drive unlike any and all Playstations before it. Sony has not given a hint on the price disparity to be expected between variants that will take advantage of the tactile and response innovations on the DualSense controller. New dynamic lighting effects will help create surreal, ultra-realistic gaming environments that should immerse players in the gameplay and storylines, if there are any. Compared to its predecessor, the PS5 console will not be out of place as a conversation piece in the living room next to that giant 8K television. Yes the PS5 is capable of 8K resolution so it will be up to task played on projectors and wall-filling widescreen TV units. Underneath the veneer, the PS5 is said to utilize an AMD Zen 2 central processing unit and AMD’s RDNA 2-based GPU, powered by 16GB of RAM and an 825-GB of SSD storage. There’s no word as of yet from Sony if the regular and Digital Editions will have marked differences in specifications. The PS5 will come with accessories that should lighten wallets, including HD camera and Pulse 3D Headphones for reality-bending audio to match what’s on the screen.

NO point in having awesome video without the aural delight promised by the Sony Pulse 3D headphone.

PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF SONY THE Sony HD camera is when you want to put yourself in the game.

Spot the difference The PS5 regular edition sports a disc slit that’s not even visible in this picture provided by Sony.