#future gaming

OOOOOOOO SHINY...

You wait and wait and then out of nowhere you get some news! Details are emerging online about the highly anticipated ‘Playstation 5′ or ‘PS5′ (both unofficial at this point) and we want to talk about it! In an exclusive interview between ‘Wired’ and Mark Cerny (Lead architect on the next gen console - why not... The man delivered the PS4 to the world in style), he dropped a few breadcrumbs that’ll feed the hunger of the unknown a little while longer. Sadly we won’t be seeing it in 2019 however...

Yeah sad face. But enough of the negatives! Lets get to the good stuff. Firstly he’s stated that the console will be backwards compatible! *peels selves off ceiling* and it WILL have a disc drive! (Us video game retailers can breathe a sigh relief and at least hope we still have jobs in a few years). Also there’s apparently a number of studios already working on titles for the next gen console so the wheels already seem to be turning...

The most exciting thing however is the potential power of the coming machine. To confirm what we mean we’ve included an extract from the article below:

“To demonstrate, Cerny fires up a PS4 Pro playing Spider-Man, a 2018 PS4 exclusive that he worked on alongside Insomniac Games. (He’s not just an systems architect; Cerny created arcade classic Marble Madness when he was all of 19 and was heavily involved with PlayStation and PS2 franchises like Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, and Ratchet and Clank.) On the TV, Spidey stands in a small plaza. Cerny presses a button on the controller, initiating a fast-travel interstitial screen. When Spidey reappears in a totally different spot in Manhattan, 15 seconds have elapsed. Then Cerny does the same thing on a next-gen devkit connected to a different TV. (The devkit, an early “low-speed” version, is concealed in a big silver tower, with no visible componentry.) What took 15 seconds now takes less than one: 0.8 seconds, to be exact.”

To read the full article then you can click here.

So... It’ll be fast then. Like, FAST. Yeah I don’t think even FAST covers it. We’re talking about the future!

We’re not getting ahead of ourselves however and we know that this will be a painful wait after we’ve been shown the very tip of the iceberg that is next-gen gaming. But this is a cause for celebration. It’s coming...

More from us as things surface but for now your PS4 is safe!

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