PS5 VS XBOX SERIES X

PLAYSTATION 5

There’s no denying it. 2020 has been a turbulent year. And now, for the first time since the original grey game changer 25 years ago, Sony is launching a console generation with a colourful box. Well, monochrome and some blue lighting. Let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves.

The PS5 has finally been revealed with a striking design in two flavours. If you’re buying a next-gen console for access to 4K Blu-rays as well as games, you’ll want the full fat version with the UHD disc drive, but if you’ve chosen a physical-media-free future, there’s a slightly slimmer Digital Edition. This should also slim down the wad of cash you’ll be handing over but no pricing has been revealed as yet.

So what’s inside the so-clearly-designed-for-maximum-airflow box? On paper, the PS5’s internals look strikingly similar to the Xbox Series X. Both have a custom eight-core Zen2 CPU, custom AMD RDNA 2