Today’s the day lads! Tonight, Sony finally lifts the veil on their plans for the next generation, and one thing is for certain: It’s going to cost you many pretty pennies to get in on that action from day one. Global retail juggernaut Amazon appears to have the console up for sale already, and you might want to sit back and not be sipping on a tasty beverage when you see the price that they have the PlayStation 5 listed at.

Having recently shown off a good-looking tech demo (that will function just as well on Xbox Series X!), Epic reckons that the PS5’s ability to render content at an amazing clip will create a revolution in how games are designed.

Sony’s PlayStation 5 is looking to be the console for quick gaming sessions that aren’t spent screaming at your TV screen to hurry the hell up. This isn’t just a case of slapping a solid-state drive into a PS5 and calling it a day, but rather fine-tuning that hardware to squeeze every drop of speed possible out of it and to do so with a foundation of software architecture that would give a mathematician a boner if he ever set eyes on the numbers behind it.

Following the release of the Unreal Engine 5 tech demo, Sweeny made it clear that he thinks Sony has the best hardware going forward.

Sony doesn't just want to ake loading screens a feature of the past with the PS5, it wants to get you playing the parts of a game that matter to you quicker and smoother than ever when it unleashes its new console.

After a long wait, we finally got to hear some information on the PlayStation 5 last night. As for seeing the actual console? Ha, dream on. Presented by lead system architect Mark Cerny and delivered in a voice smooth enough to melt butter in the Arctic, Sony’s delivery last night was a massive information dump that punched pure numbers into your grey matter with fists of knowledge.

During a recent PlayStation livestream, Sony finally lifted the lid on their next-gen console. And by that, I mean the hardware was spoken about. No reveal whatsoever of the actual console. NOTHING.

With the Xbox Series X hyping up its ability to play bigger games quicker thanks to its internal 1TB SSD, getting into a game is going to be a walk in the park. An entire terabyte is a lot of digital real estate, but even in this day and age it’s not enough space for a thriving library of games that’ll easily stretch that limit to the breaking point. The solution? Memory cards! Sort of.