Fans React to PS5's Groundbreaking Logo

Sony has finally revealed the official PlayStation 5 logo at CES 2020. And simply put, it is boringly familiar, if not boring. The font and styling are elevated above the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 logos, with no fancy aesthetic and whatever the same colour scheme. The company also highlighted some features of its upcoming console such as the introduction of 3D audio sound, high-speed SSDs, hardware-accelerated ray tracing, and Ultra HD Blu-ray support, haptics feedback for the next-gen and adaptive triggers. with. Playstation 5 controller. In addition to revealing the logo, Sony has also split sales of the console's Series 4 PlayStation sales, along with its PSVR (PlayStation VR) virtual headset.

Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO, Jim Ryan, took the stage at Sony's CES 2020 presentation and revealed the PS5 logo. Additionally, he also highlighted some achievements of the company's console business. According to Sony's press release, the company has sold more than 106 million PlayStation 4 consoles, making it the second-best-selling console in the company's lineup after PlayStation 2. In addition, the total number of PS4 titles sold has so far reached 1.15 billion. . Sony has also seen 5 million PlayStation VR (PSVR) unit sales so far. Coming to the software side of things, the monthly active user count of the PlayStation Network (PSN) service has reached 103 million (as of December 2019).

Ryan mentioned that PlayStation 5 will be an evolutionary upgrade in terms of capabilities, offering features such as hardware ray tracing, in-built Blu-ray players, fast SSDs to significantly reduce loading times and 3D audio effects. On the other hand, Sony has also confirmed some hardware details of the PS5, such as a third-gen Ryzen processor and a 7nm AMD CPU based on the Zen 2 microarchitecture, while the GPU is a custom version of the Radeon Navi family of RDNA architectures.

While these features are certainly notable, the biggest news may be backwards compatibility. Tipster @HipHopGamer recently mentioned in a stream that the PS5 will reportedly come with a "remastering engine" to enhance the visual output of the classic game. In addition, the PlayStation 5 will provide backward compatibility for games released for previous-gen consoles going back to the PlayStation 1.