PS5 announced for 2020 Holiday Season

[Madmick]

Update Index:

• PS5 dev kit design leaked-- possibly the final product design (OP below)
• Sony officially announced PS5 launch for Holiday 2020
• Sony waffles on backwards compatibility [some more info on this topic here]
• Digital Foundry builds an approximate PC analogue to the PS5
• Dualshock 5 controller blueprint patent shows up
• Dualshock 5 physical controllers spotted in the wild (photo)
• Bloomberg report rumors a $450 manufacturing cost resulting in a best-case low $470 price tag; also launch title backwards compatibility, new PSVR release
• PS5 Controller Design Revealed: Now called the "DualSense"
• Major break via Bloomberg: Price expected to be over $500, fewer units at launch than PS4
• PS5 Unreal Engine 5 Demo (via Epic Games)
• After some misleading hype from Epic's CEO Tim Sweeney a Chinese engineer demonstrates Unreal Engine 5 runs better on a gaming laptop
• A jpeg of expected games on the PS5 has been leaked
• Sony has revealed June 4th will be a PR event announcement of launch games; viewable on the official Playstation Twitch channel at 1PM Pacific Time / 8PM Universal Time (this will be a 1-hour event)
• PS5 June 4th announcement event postponed indefinitely due to anti-police riots
• PS5 event back on for June 11
• The Official PS5 design has been revealed, and it looks nothing like the leak below
• Online speculators estimate the PS5 will be an enormous console by observation of design dimensions [#2]
• Image of workers holding PS5
• Sony announces extent of PS5 compatibility with PS4 accessories
• Sony reveals new liquid metal cooling system
• Article on new dual haptic feedback triggers, and how they might be used in games-- ex. gun jamming
• PS5 will offer WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1, great news for networking capability
• Sony's latest corporate report indicates they will be bringing more of their exclusives to PCs to increase profits
• The Playstation Showcase: Console Price Revealed, New Game Footage shown, God of War: Ragnarok teased, and "PS Plus Collection" service introduced
• A lovely JPEG comparison of the four new consoles

Separate threads of note:

• Direct comparison of PS5 and Xbox Series X specs, for anyone interested (Mar-18)
  • Detailed spec side-by-side here [updated Sept-10-2020]
  • Detailed comparative analysis here
• Xbox Series X (Series S) vs. PS5: which are you buying? (Jun-23)
• BREAKING Next Gen Games To Be 70 Bucks (July-2)

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(Update disclaimer: original OP below. This is not the final design. That can be seen by clicking the red link in the index above)

An insider just confirmed that this leaked PS5 design is real

The high-resolution render above shows us what a PS5 dev console looks like, and it was created using a newly discovered Sony design patent. The reason renders like this exist in the first place is that a developer accidentally confirmed the design on Twitter, and then proceeded to delete the message and his entire account. It turns out that a different developer with access to both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox 2 (Project Scarlett) has been sharing images of the PS5 dev box for a while now, as well as additional details about the upcoming next-generation Sony and Microsoft consoles.

Release date and specs
The leaker told Gizmodo in a series of emails that the blog was right with the assumption that AMD was slow to get ray tracing support on Navi, and that’s why both consoles couldn’t launch before 2020, in spite of both Sony and Microsoft confirming the main specs for each product. “Correct that AMD Navi v late,” the tipster said.

The person also said that the PS5 design above is codenamed Prospero, and it was delivered to developers early this summer. Gizmodo explained that Prospero is a character who appears in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Ariel and Gonzalo are other characters from the play, which are coincidentally the codenames that AMD may have used to hide its brand new console parts from the public. Ariel and Gonzalo were associated with new AMD semi-custom chips for gaming consoles, or Accelerated Processing Units (APU). A GPU called Oberon was also discovered earlier this year. The Shakespearian inspiration also suggests all these parts are made for next year’s consoles.

The tipster revealed that the future console will have “the greatest compute jump in any console,” without revealing any specific details...

Xbox Scarlett camera
On top of all that, the report explains that both consoles should have built-in user-facing cameras to facilitate live game streaming. The PS5 dev kit featured older camera tech that will probably be replaced on the final product. But the Microsoft Xbox Scarlett kit comes with a 4K camera that’s able to deliver a two-frame latency between what’s recorded and what appears on the stream. Microsoft (and Sony) seem to be well aware of the increased popularity of game streaming, and the next-gen consoles might pack great hardware so gamers don’t need to buy third-party cameras to stream.

 

[jojoRed]

I dont think thats going to be the final design. I remember the funky PS3 controller etc.

Looks like garbage - looks like the cap for a USB stick.

 

[rikwebb]

Its the Dev Kit in that pic, its already been confirmed as that due to the filing with the Brazilian government. A senior Artist at Codemasters also confirmed it before deleting his twitter account : https://bgr.com/2019/08/22/ps5-release-date-leaked-playstation-5-design-linked-to-dev-kit/

Plus its looking like this is the newest version of the devkit for them as there was a version sent out last year and then some more after Mark Cerny wired interview earlier in the year.

Scarlett has always been the Xbox code name for next gen not PS5, the last couple of Code names have been floated for being linked to PS5 have been Oberon and Gonzalo(which seems to possibly be the APU) (all names also for the PS5 seeming to have Shakespeare linked names).

 

[jefferz]

They need to get rid of that stupid notch and just put a 200mm fan on top. They're probably going to be 40mm or 60mm fans that will be loud AF.

 

[Pliny Pete]

Looks like a gun from Borderlands

 

[Mr. 4K]

Everyone gonna be a streamer now. That’s cool though. I like it. Hopefully Sony will include a 4K camera too.

 

[Madmick]

Part of me wonders if the notch is designed to be a convenient place to rest the controller.

 

[Mr. 4K]

Part of me wonders if the notch is designed to be a convenient place to rest the controller.

its fugly as all get out though. Lmao.

 

[Madmick]

its fugly as all get out though. Lmao.

I have to admit I like it, myself. It has a bit of a Star Wars influence going on. It reminds me of the buildings on Coruscant, or the Millenium Falcon. More than the Falcon it reminds me of the tractor ships in Galaga.

It probably has a more practical purpose: heat dissipation. As you can see there is a semblance of fin stacking similar to what CPU air cooler designs utilize in order to maximize the surface area exposure between the metal and the surrounding air. This is where it begins to resemble a mult-story building, but then they also add a curve to the recess.

Obviously the least efficient shape for cooling is a sphere. The leaked design, on the other hand, doesn't bottle up the central internals of the PS5 deep inside of a box. It's always better to keep things shallow. So maybe it really does have ambitious processing horsepower.

 

[rikwebb]

I have to admit I like it, myself. It has a bit of a Star Wars influence going on. It reminds me of the buildings on Coruscant, or the Millenium Falcon. More than the Falcon it reminds me of the tractor ships in Galaga.

It probably has a more practical purpose: heat dissipation. As you can see there is a semblance of fin stacking similar to what CPU air cooler designs utilize in order to maximize the surface area exposure between the metal and the surrounding air. This is where it begins to resemble a mult-story building, but then they also add a curve to the recess.

Obviously the least efficient shape for cooling is a sphere. That design doesn't bottle up the central internals of the PS5 inside of a box. It's always better to keep things shallow. So maybe it really does have ambitious processing horsepower.

Yeah pretty much.

 

[Dizzy]

It’s a dev kit. Here’s what the PS4 one looked like.

 

[Gregolian]

Prospero sounds like the name of some dictator in the Tropico series.

 

[ssBaldy]

As a massive WH40K nerd I LOL'd hard at it being called Prospero.
MS should name their xbox prototype Fenris or simply Wolf

 

[Gregolian]

As a massive WH40K nerd I LOL'd hard at it being called Prospero.
MS should name their xbox prototype Fenris or simply Wolf

FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!

 

[KaNesDeath]

It’s a dev kit. Here’s what the PS4 one looked like.

Yeah, wasnt that concept image leaked weeks ago? Regardless it does look like a toilet seat.

 

[jojoRed]

Yeah, wasnt that concept image leaked weeks ago? Regardless it does look like a toilet seat.

I bet some nutter would stick his penis in that hole. 100%. Maybe that nutter is me.

 

[Madmick]

It’s a dev kit. Here’s what the PS4 one looked like.

Yes, it mentions that in the article, and @rikwebb already posted more extensively on this. I copied the clickbait BGR headline.

I bet some nutter would stick his penis in that hole. 100%. Maybe that nutter is me.

 

[Dizzy]

Yes, it mentions that in the article, and @rikwebb already posted more extensively on this. I copied the clickbait BGR headline.

Then I guess I’m not seeing the point of discussing a design that won’t be used. We saw this a little while back.

 

[method115]

Doesn't look bad to me but I've never really cared about what my console looks like. Looks like it's just a dev kit though so oh well.

 

[Madmick]

Then I guess I’m not seeing the point of discussing a design that won’t be used. We saw this a little while back.

Because it gives insight into what the final product will support, and also likely what it will resemble. I checked the PS5 thread (where I ultimately intend to merge this) and didn't see this posted yet. So I thought it was worth a look.