A Merry Christmas from Sony…next year

Almost six years after unveiling PlayStation 4, Sony has announced the upcoming release of its successor.

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Sony has just announced the Playstation 5!! It will be launched in holiday 2020. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ No official images of the next generation console has been released but a leaked image of the dev kit appeared online and has been confirmed by many as being real. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 2 new features have also been added to the controllers, being haptic feedback and adaptive triggers. It has also been confirmed to be moving to USB C. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Who's excited? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #playstation #playstation5 #games #gaming #gamingconsole #sony #ps5 #sonyplaystation #gamingtech #tech #technology #technews #newtechnology

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The aptly-named Playstation 5 is set to launch in time for the holidays, Sony officials revealed Tuesday. Among the updated unit’s features will be a redesigned controller that will include haptic feedback, which Sony CEO Jim Ryan says give users “a broader range of feedback, so crashing into a wall in a race car feels much different than making a tackle on the football field. You can even get a sense for a variety of textures when running through fields of grass or plodding through mud.”

The one thing Sony did not reveal about the new Playstation: it’s price.