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If you're after a PlayStation 5 pre-order in the UK, then I have some good news for you: Game will have limited stocks of console pre-orders sometime tomorrow morning, on Friday 25th September. This solely digital console will boast the same specs as the standard PS5, just in a more streamlined package. The PlayStation 5 will be going up against Microsoft's Xbox Series X (formerly known as Project Scarlett) and Google's Stadia The Google Stadia will be launching first but has no previous pedigree in the gaming space.

This means you won't have to throw out all your PS4 discs when your shiny new console turns up. However, it's based on PS5 not being able to incorporate the entirety of the PS4 architecture, so the games that won't run on the new console remain a mystery.

It's not yet clear whether doing so would involve replacing the existing 825GB SSD or adding an extra one, but we do know, thanks to Digital Foundry , that either way you are going to have to get a particularly fast, PlayStation-approved, PCIe 4.0-based drive - a standard SSD won't necessarily have the speed to play PS5 games.

Sony revealed the logo at CES 2020 which was met with mixed reactions… It does stay in line with what PlayStation has gone with before though: simple white lines. Lastly, the PlayStation VR headset will be compatible with the PlayStation 5. There is no information on a next-gen VR headset in production at this time, though Sony reiterated the importance of pushing VR going forward.

That's what Sony is calling the the button that's in the same spot and still intended for gameplay content to share with the world, with the company teasing more details about this button ahead of the console launch. It didn't matter one jot when it came to the crunch, and that crunch was what games could be played on the system, and how much it would cost to play them.

Both consoles are going to be pretty powerful, from what we know about the PS5 specs We'll cover them in full below, but specs-wise, the PS5 (and its digital alternative) is rocking an AMD Zen 2-based CPU with 8 cores at 3.5GHz, 16GB of GDDR6 memory, and a custom RDNA 2 AMD GPU rtx 3080 launch that puts out 10.28 TFLOPs of processing power.