PlayStation 5
- Manufacturer
- Sony
- Released
- 2020
- Generation
- Gen 9
- Type
- Home
- Region
- JP / NA / AU
- Launch price
- $499
- Media
- Disc
- Units sold
- 80.0M
About PlayStation 5
The PlayStation 5 (PS5) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment as the fifth iteration of their PlayStation brand. It was announced as the successor to the PlayStation 4 in April 2019, and was launched in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, North America, and South Korea on November 12, 2020, and worldwide a week later. The PS5 is part of the ninth generation of video game consoles, along with Microsoft's Xbox Series X/S consoles, which were released the same month.
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Lifetime sales
Official manufacturer-reported figures.
93.7Munits
Sony FY2025 full-year results (shipped to retail).
Source: Sony Interactive Entertainment, as of March 31, 2026.
Library & collector facts
Lineage
Release timeline
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- November 12, 2020
- 🇺🇸 North America
- November 12, 2020
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- November 12, 2020
Pricing
Launch price (2020)
- 🇺🇸 USD
- $499
- 🇯🇵 JPY
- ¥49,980
Controller
DualSense (Edge) / DualShock 4
Launch titles & exclusives
Astro's Playroom (pre-installed) · Demon's Souls Remake · Spider-Man: Miles Morales · Sackboy: A Big Adventure · NBA 2K21 · Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War · Assassin's Creed Valhalla · Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition · Godfall · Bugsnax
Astro's Playroom (pre-installed on every PS5)
Astro Bot (2024, AAA full release) · Demon's Souls (2020 remake) · Returnal · Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart · Marvel's Spider-Man 2 · Final Fantasy XVI (timed) · Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (timed) · Stellar Blade (timed) · Rise of the Ronin · Helldivers 2 (also PC) · God of War Ragnarok · Gran Turismo 7 (also PS4) · Horizon Forbidden West (also PS4) · Death Stranding Director's Cut
Still in production (active platform)
20th Anniversary-equivalent variants not yet released; Spider-Man 2 Limited Edition (2023) is the highest-profile collector SKU; God of War Ragnarok Jotnar Edition sealed (~$500+)
Variants of PlayStation 5
Hardware specs
- Cpu
- Custom AMD 8-core Zen 2, Base & Silm: Max clock speed is 3.5 GHz, Pro: Max clock speed is 3.85 GHz
- Gpu
- Custom AMD Radeon, Base & Slim, RDNA 2-based architecture, 36 CUs at max clock 2.23 GHz, 10.28 TFLOPS peak, Pro, RDNA 2 & RDNA 3-based with RDNA 4 Ray_tracing_(graphics)#Interactive_ray_tracing, RTRT cores mixed architecture, 60 CUs at max clock 2.35 GHz, 18.05 TFLOPS peak
- Ram
- 16 GB GDDR6 SDRAM, 512 MB DDR4 RAM (used as SSD controller cache), 2 GB DDR5 RAM (used for system; Pro only)
- Sound
- Tempest Engine 3D Audio, Dolby Atmos, 7.1 surround sound, DTS:X (Blu-ray & UHD Blu-ray video)
- Weight
- 4.5 kg
- Dimensions
- 390 × 104 × 260 mm
- Display Output
- All models: 720p, 1080i, 1080p, 1440p, 4K resolution, 4K, Pro: 720p, 1080i, 1080p, 1440p, 4K resolution, 4K, 8K resolution, 8K
- Storage Internal
- Custom Integrated circuit, integrated PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, Base: 825 GB, Slim (Disc): 1 TB, Slim (Digital): 825 GB, Pro: 2 TB, Expandable up to 8 TB via M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen4 x4 port
Hardware revisions
- Original PS5 CFI-1000(2020)
launch hardware, large form factor, full Tempest 3D audio, 825GB custom SSD
- CFI-1100(2021)
lighter heatsink (controversial — some reviews argued thermal throttling worse, others showed it fine)
- CFI-1200(2022)
smaller heatsink, lower power draw
- PS5 Slim CFI-2000(2023)
smaller form factor, detachable disc drive option, 1TB SSD
- PS5 Pro CFI-7000(November 2024)
enhanced GPU, PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution AI upscaling), $699 USD, disc drive sold separately
Launch colorways & special editions
- Spider-Man 2 Limited Edition (2023)
- God of War Ragnarok Bundle
- Horizon Forbidden West Bundle
- Final Fantasy XVI Bundle
- 30th Anniversary Edition (2024, gray-toned PS1-inspired colorway, instant-sellout collector piece)
- Astro Bot Limited Edition (2024)
- console covers (interchangeable side plates) in multiple colors
Modding scene
- Difficulty
- none
- Custom firmware
- No public CFW as of early 2026; security research ongoing but no publicly exploitable jailbreak for modern firmware
Reception & legacy
Strong but supply-constrained — sold out for nearly two years due to global semiconductor shortage and scalper activity; reviews praised SSD load times and DualSense haptics
Severe scalper-driven supply shortages 2020–2022; PS5 Pro $699 launch price (Nov 2024) and disc-drive-sold-separately criticized; Concord (2024) shut down two weeks after launch — one of the most expensive flops in Sony history
Defined the SSD-as-design-feature generation (instant load times, streaming-from-disk architecture); DualSense haptics and adaptive triggers became the most-imitated controller innovations in years; Astro Bot's 2024 success revived the platformer-as-flagship template
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