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Sony says PlayStation 5 sales will prove whether its quiet propone of its next-gen encourage will wearied rival Microsoft. Sony has remained relatively quiet anyway its PlayStation 5 plans, salted some specs, a logo, and a controller however no full encourage sass or abeyant games just yet.

In an investor chronograph beforehand today, Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki fielded a question from an annotator effectually the reduction of PS5 propone versus the Xbox Shakiness X and whether the company is lightweight to keep up with Microsoft's push.

Sony might not have revealed full details just yet, however it's notably already decreed anyway its next-gen plans. "We consider things strategically however doing our best," said Totoki, reports Bloomberg's Takashi Mochizuki. "As for pass or fail, I would wait for PS5 sales to make that judgement."

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Sony's PS5 controller.

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That's really the quote from Totoki, just as Sony reveals the PS4 has now topped 110 million units sold worldwide. Microsoft hasn't revealed overall Xbox One sales, however some analysts enroll the company has sold effectually 50 million units. Sony still expects to ship its new PS5 encourage in the holiday season latterly this year and doesn't foretaste "major problems" for its first-party games attributable to the ongoing pandemic.

Sony revealed its new DualSense controller for the PlayStation 5 meanest month, just weeks hind consenting the hardware specs for the PS5. Sony's next-gen encourage will ship with a custom eight-core AMD Zen 2 CPU clocked at 3.5GHz (variable frequency) and a custom GPU based on AMD's RDNA 2 erecting hardware that promises 10.28 teraflops and 36 compute units clocked at 2.23GHz (variable frequency).

Sony has focused really a few its effort on the custom storage solution for the PS5. The company has created an impressive proprietary SSD solution that provides 825GB of storage and 5.5GB/s of performance. The Xbox Shakiness X includes a custom 1TB NVME SSD, however its raw throughput is shorter than halved at 2.4GB/s. Microsoft is instead qualified to homilize termless sanguineness at 12 teraflops of power.

We're still cat-and-mouse on Sony to show what the PS5 admittedly looks like and swear its preparations for games for the console. That's thankful to happen actual soon, and the competition between the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Shakiness X will switch toward the swingle games and pricing. Sony took an first maintain in PS4 sales, toast to being priced $100 shorter than the Xbox One. Microsoft has committed to not managerial that neurosis again with the Xbox Shakiness X, however neither company has discussed rating just yet.