New Sony PlayStation 5 only available through online portals

According to the news previously announced by Sony, the new PlayStation 5 game console will be released globally on November 12, according to SonySIE president and PlayStation head Jim Ryan revealed in an interview It is reported that the sales of this machine is expected to break the record created by PS4, and as the time to market the new machine gets closer, the increasing enthusiasm of many fans seems to confirm Jim Ryan’s prediction, but this undoubtedly gives The stocking of this machine brings tremendous pressure, and I am afraid that many consumers will need to go through some twists and turns before they can really get it. Now there is the latest news. Recently, foreign media revealed that the machine will probably only be available for online shopping.

According to the latest information released by foreign media, a Norwegian retailer broke the news that Sony is putting pressure on them to not allow PS5 consoles to be sold offline this year. Coincidentally, BESTBUY Canada also confirmed the same news to the media and will use online purchases or make an appointment to pick up the goods in store, which further increases the authenticity of the news. At the same time, if retailers insist on offline sales, Sony may also impose corresponding penalties on them. According to the reasons given by foreign media, this seems to be mainly due to concerns that the enthusiasm of players is too high, and that crazy parties will cause social distancing to fail, which will be detrimental to the prevention and control of the new crown epidemic.

In other respects, according to previously exposed news, the new SonyPS5 game console will provide two versions of optical drive and digital version without optical drive, equipped with AMD's custom 8-core Zen 2 CPU 3.5GHz (supporting frequency conversion). The graphics card is AMD's custom GPU with RDNA2 architecture, with a frequency of up to 2.23GHz, supports 10.28 trillion floating point operations per second, supports 120Hz/8K output, 3D sound effects, etc., and can be directly backward compatible with PS4 games. In addition, the company's CEO Jim Ryan also confirmed that among the thousands of backward-compatible PS4 games, "99%" of the games can be played on the PS5, and the expected lifespan of the PS4 is up to 4 years.

It is reported that the new SonyPS5 digital version is priced at 399 US dollars, and the CD-ROM version is priced at 499 US dollars. It will be sold globally on November 12th.