Sony Playstation 5

£450 / stuff.tv/ps5

The PS5 is not a modest upgrade. Its hulking design means it’ll make a bad first impression on some, but spend time playing it and it’ll soon win you over – and then some. This is essentially a high-spec gaming PC for the living room: stupendously powerful, with greatly reduced loading times compared to the PS4. Most last-gen titles will run fine, many with a boost, and the line-up of new games is strong; we just hope developers make use of that fascinating Dualsense pad and its haptic feedback trickery. Stuff says ★★★★★

Huge power, clever hardware and a guarantee of great games to come make the PS5 hard to resist