After much speculation and anticipation, Sony has finally lifted the lid on its highly touted PlayStation 5 console. During the next-gen event that took place this week it was unveiled exactly what the new gaming system would look like, and it's fair to say that the PlayStation 5's design features caught nearly everyone by surprise.

Check out the trailer for the Crash Bandicoot remake:

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Gone are what we might refer to as the more 'traditional' PlayStation design features - an overall boxy look and that familiar controller - replaced instead by a futuristic console with smoother finishes.

Not everyone loved the new design though. One Twitter user described it as looking like a WiFi router:

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Per the BBC, freelance game critic Laura Kate Dale said of the launch event;

"While there's still a lot of unanswered questions about the PS5, namely price and release date, I think Sony did exactly what they needed to with this reveal event,"

"It showed off an hour of games, mixing sequels to popular titles, and new franchises from its biggest first-party studios, for a solid hour.

"People on Twitter are very split on whether they like or hate the look of the box, but overall Sony spent an hour getting people excited."

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And - of course - comparisons are already underway with Xbox's new console, Xbox Series X. Sony will launch alongside Microsoft's machine before the end of the year, according to the BBC.

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In the description of the PS5 hardware launch trailer above , Sony writes;

"At launch, we will offer two options: a PlayStation®5 console with an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive and a PlayStation®5 Digital Edition without a disc drive. The PS5 gameplay experience will be the same, so the choice is all yours. While there are some slight differences in the look of each model, for the overall design, we wanted to deliver a console that’s bold, stunning, and unlike any previous generation of PlayStation."

Among the game announcements came the news of two sequels to bestselling PlayStation 4 games: Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Horizon: Forbidden West.

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The PlayStation 5 touts super fast loading and improved visuals among its selling points. It's expect to launch towards the end of the year.

Videogamers around the world are eagerly anticipating the release of the PlayStation 5 games console, but so far, Sony has sadly been pretty tight-lipped about it. We still don't have a release date for the machine: all we know is that it's coming soon and it will be awesome when it hits the shelves.

However, now the technical spec for Sony's upcoming games console has leaked to the internet, and fans are seriously hyped about the graphical capabilities of the hardware.

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The announcement was first made when a Twitter-user and games expert with the handle @isaparrot took to social media to posted the purported speeds for the console's graphics processor.

The tweet reads: "BREAKING: THIS IS PS5. According to this leak - the GPU will be clocked at an insane 2ghz. This equates to 9.2 TF on the RDNA architecture. Or roughly 14 TF on the GCN Architecture aka over double the power of the X1X. Almost RTX2080 power. [sic]"

This isn't the only choice bit of info we've gleaned on the console. This week, a number of images of the supposed PlayStation 5 development kit circulated on social media as well, which were originally discovered by the Dutch website LetsGoDigital. However, many people consider the widely-circulated pictures to be a hoax.

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In a recent interview with Wired, lead system architect Mark Cerny stated that VR and enhanced audio are also important features in the new console's design. Cerny stated: "As a gamer. It's been a little bit of a frustration that audio did not change too much between PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. With the next console, the dream is to show how dramatically different the audio experience can be when we apply significant amounts of hardware horsepower to it."

Meanwhile, PlayStation's CEO Jim Ryan recently explained to CNET why info on the console was being released so slowly, stating: "We wanted to make sure that the PlayStation fans had clear and unambiguous information from us instead of garbled nonsense third and fourth hand - some of it true, some of it perhaps certain times less true. This is just the start."

Check out some of the social media reactions to the console's specs below:

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However, what we do know for certain is that the current lifespan of the PS4 is another two-to-three years, so gamers will have to be patient before they can experience those much-touted next-gen graphics.

Gamers all around the world have been eagerly anticipating the release of the PlayStation 5 games console. Yet hardware developers Sony have been pretty damn tight-lipped about it. Thus far, we still don't have a release date for the machine, or even so much as a picture of its design. All we know is that it's coming and that it'll be awesome when it arrives.

However, at a recent Sony investor relations meeting, the company demonstrated some vital things about the PlayStation 5, including an intriguing video showing the differences between the loading time of the new console compared with its predecessor. Here's everything we know so far:

Check out this comparison of the PS4's loading time versus the PS5's:

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First of all, we know that load times are going to improve significantly, especially since open-world games are growing more popular. For example, thanks to its superior processing power, when PS4 takes approximately eight seconds to load Spider-Man, the PS5 does the same in less than a second, including for dynamic maps which load portions of a game as the player progresses

According to the information released at the very same event, the PlayStation 5 will additionally support 8K graphics, 3D audio, SSD storage, and backward compatibility with PS4 games. However, there's been no word on whether or not customers can play PS1, PS2, and PS3 titles as well.

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In a recent interview with Wired, lead system architect Mark Cerny stated that VR and enhanced audio are also important features, stating: "As a gamer. It's been a little bit of a frustration that audio did not change too much between PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. With the next console, the dream is to show how dramatically different the audio experience can be when we apply significant amounts of hardware horsepower to it."

He added: "I won't go into the details of our VR strategy today. beyond saying that VR is very important to us and that the current PSVR headset is compatible with the new console."

Sadly, investors were also told that the current lifespan of the PS4 will be another two-three years. Still, I can't wait for it to come out; it sounds like it will be mind-blowing!

The tech giant and developer Sony has just revealed the specs for the upcoming Playstation 5 games console at a recent conference.

The news of the announcement was made on Playstation's official Twitter account yesterday, when Sony tweeted: "Tomorrow at 9 am Pacific Time, PS5 lead system architect Mark Cerny will provide a deep dive into PS5’s system architecture, and how it will shape the future of games [sic]."

Take a look at the recent remake of the original three Crash Bandicoot games:

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According to a report by The Verge, the PS5 will boast a custom eight-core AMD Zen 2 CPU clocked at 3.5GHz (variable frequency) and a custom GPU based on AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture hardware, with 10.28 teraflops and 36 compute units clocked at 2.23GHz.

According to Eurogamer, the PS5 will also boast 16GB of GDDR6 RAM and a custom 825GB SSD to deliver uber-fast loading times during gameplay.

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To prove it, Cerny showed the assembled audience at the spec reveal that the PS4 takes around 20 seconds to load one gigabyte of data, while the PS5’s SSD can handle five gigabytes in a second.

Previously, PlayStation president Jim Ryan tweeted that the Playstation 5 controller will feature cutting edge 'haptics' technology, stating: "With haptics, you truly feel 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."

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Meanwhile, Cerny confirmed in an interview with Wired that the PS5 will feature complete backwards compatibility with older games, stating: "Because [the PS5] is based in part on the PS4's architecture, it will also be backwards-compatible with games for that console.

He added: "As in many other generational transitions, this will be a gentle one, with numerous new games being released for both PS4 and the next-gen console."

Sony has revealed some tantalizing details about the upcoming PlayStation 5, which could be the last ever.

We already know a little about the console, including its massively improved speed and the tech behind it. Jim Ryan, PlayStation's CEO, has explained why the information is being released slowly.

"We wanted to make sure that the PlayStation fans had clear and unambiguous information from us instead of garbled nonsense third and fourth hand - some of it true, some of it perhaps certain times less true," he told CNET.

"This is just the start of the unveil process."

This is the Pripyat Level of Call of Duty 4 on the PS4; perfect for fans of HBO's Chernobyl: 

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Sony has already revealed that it created a super fast SSD storage drive for the PlayStation 5, and instead of charging users extra for access, it will be available in all PlayStation 5 consoles by default.

This larger storage capacity will improve performance significantly. The Independent reports that 4K visuals will be displayed at 120Hz. To put this into context, that's faster than many televisions.

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What's more is that the PlayStation 5 will be compatible with the PlayStation 4, meaning that users will still be able to enjoy games made for that console and multiplayer games with those still using it.

"Whether it's backwards compatibility or the possibility of cross-generational play, we'll be able to transition that community to next-gen," he said. "It won't be a binary choice about whether you have to be either on PlayStation 4 or next-gen to continue your friendship."

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Ryan also admitted that this could be the last ever PlayStation console created - marking the end of an era. Pictured above is the PlayStation 1, which was released in 1994.

"What I think is: I actually don't know," he said, when asked if this was the last ever PlayStation. "I've been around a while, and I sat there in 2012 and listened to all sorts of smart people tell me about mobile and that the PlayStation 4 was going to be the most terrible failure ever."

"The logic was actually hard to fault. But we believed in that product then, we believe in this next generation product now. Who knows how it might evolve? Hybrid models between console and some sort of cloud model? Possibly that. I just don't know. And if I did know, I wouldn't tell you."