Sony's new $500 PlayStation 5 will launch Nov. 12

Sony stated Wednesday its upcoming PlayStation 5 online game console will value $500 and launch Nov. 12, organising a vacation battle with Microsoft’s X Field Sequence X over whose new console will likely be underneath individuals’s tree this yr

Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 5 online game console will value $500 and launch Nov. 12, the corporate stated Wednesday, organising a vacation battle with Microsoft’s Xbox Sequence X over whose new console will flip up underneath extra bushes this yr.

Online game followers have been chomping on the bit for the brand new consoles, and never simply because they have been caught inside since March. The roughly 7-year life cycle of a online game console has been nearing an finish. Each predecessor consoles, the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4, launched in 2013.

The brand new consoles promise sooner load occasions, souped up graphics and new video games. Sony’s console can also be dearer this time round; the PS4 launched for $400 in 2013.

Sony’s PS5 will are available two completely different fashions — a normal model with an Extremely HD Blu-ray disc drive for $500, and a digital-oriented model with no disk drive that prices $400. When you can nonetheless purchase video games on optical disks, it’s more and more frequent for players to obtain them in digital type as an alternative.

The U.S., Japan, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea will see the console on Nov. 12; all over the place else will get it every week later.

In a presentation Wednesday, Sony previewed video games together with “Spider-Man: Miles Morales,” which will likely be out there at launch, and a Harry Potter recreation, “Hogwarts Legacy,” which will likely be out in 2021. It gave a sneak peak of “Ultimate Fantasy XVI,” which will likely be unique to PlayStation, however didn’t specify when that recreation will launch.

Final week, Microsoft stated its Xbox Sequence X will value $500 and debut Nov. 10, simply forward of the vacations. A stripped down model, Xbox Sequence S, will value $300 and be out there on the identical time. Pre-orders start Sept. 22. New video video games at launch embrace “Murderer’s Creed Valhalla,” “Gears Techniques,” “Filth 5,” and “Watch Canine Legion.”

Nintendo, which makes one other widespread console, the Nintendo Change, will not have a brand new mannequin out till subsequent yr. However Fb might provide Microsoft and Sony some vacation competitors. It stated on Wednesday a brand new model of its wire-free digital actuality headset, the Oculus Quest 2, will begin transport October 13, simply in time for the vacations.