Overview
- Known As
- PlayStation 5 • PS5
- Company
- Sony
- Launched
- 1st Nov 2020
- Type
- Console
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_5
Latest Reviews of PlayStation 5 Games
Review Final Fantasy Resonance: Impressive 2D-HD Visuals, Excellent Performance on Every Platform
But what's up with image quality on Xbox Series S?
Review Star Wars: Galactic Racer - A Top-Flight Arcade Racing Game with Incredible Graphics Tech
Nigh-on flawless performance on all consoles - including Series S.
Review Control Resonant: An Impressive PC Version With Superb Scalability
Plus: optimised settings, RT recommendations and much more.
Popular PlayStation 5 Games
Latest PlayStation 5 News
Review Final Fantasy Resonance: Impressive 2D-HD Visuals, Excellent Performance on Every Platform
But what's up with image quality on Xbox Series S?
News Modern Warfare 4 Requires VRR for 120Hz Mode to Function, Unlike Past Entries
Leaving older monitors and TVs without VRR support in the lurch.
Feature Inside Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4: The New Game-Changing Tech Powering Every Mode
Smoke, weather and animation have all seen huge upgrades.
News GTA 6 Platform Poll: 36% of DF Viewers to Play on PS5 Pro After 30,000 Votes
With only one in five planning to play on Xbox - and thousands of comments in favour of PC.
Mark Cerny has already confirmed frame-gen is coming to PlayStation.
Feature GTA 6 Launch Trailer Analysis: Has a Long-Standing Tech Issue Been Fixed?
And is there any hint of Sony's new QSSR upscaler?
News GTA 6 Launch Trailer Arrives - More Than A Month Ahead of Launch
With a banging soundtrack from Justice.
Review Star Wars: Galactic Racer - A Top-Flight Arcade Racing Game with Incredible Graphics Tech
Nigh-on flawless performance on all consoles - including Series S.
News Hands-On With QSSR: AI-Driven Upscaling for the Standard PS5
Plus: further details from Sony's graphics R&D team.
News Sony announces QSSR AI upscaling tech for base PS5 in Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei
The PS5 Pro is no longer the sole domain of AI upscaling tech on console.
Review Control Resonant: An Impressive PC Version With Superb Scalability
Plus: optimised settings, RT recommendations and much more.
Review Control Resonant: Remedy's Tech Makes the Leap to a Wider Urban Sandbox
Every console tested - with PS5 Pro delivering the best experience.
Feature Marvel's Wolverine: Inside Insomniac's Blood and Destruction Tech on PS5 and PS5 Pro
Talking tech with Insomniac Games.
2026's most hard-to-say game is hard to recommend on Series S, and flawed elsewhere.
Will you become an honorary Kiwi to play early?
Related Hardware
List of hardware items (add-ons?)
Where To Buy
List of places to buy this system