We waited an agonising seven years for Sony to upgrade its PS3 to the PS4, but will we have to wait as long for the PS5?
Those of us eagerly awaiting the PS5 might be surprised to learn that the next console to come from Sony will in fact be the 4K PlayStation 4.5. We reveal all there is to know about the next PlayStation UK release date and specs. Also see: PS4 vs Xbox One.
Very little is known about the PlayStation 5, which isn't surprising given that its launch is likely years rather than months away, but in this article we'll discuss the rumours and speculation surrounding the PS5 and see what details we can glean.
Update 19 April 2016: The next console coming from Sony will be the 4K PlayStation 4.5, not the PS5. The PS4.5 will be more suited to incredibly graphics-heavy games and the likes of VR, with better performance and 4K support.
According to Giant Bomb, the project known internally as NEO will feature a higher clock speed than the original PS4, an improved GPU, and higher bandwidth on the memory. It says NEO will have eight Jaguar CPU cores running at 2.1GHz rather than the 1.6GHz in the PS4, an improved AMD GCN with 36 rather than 18 CUs running at the higher rate of 911MHz over 800MHz, and faster GDDR5 memory - 8GB at 218GB/s instead of 176GB/s.
Giant Bomb also says the hard drive is different to that in the PS4, but it's not yet clear whether it will be higher in capacity or have a faster connection speed.
Fortunately for those who don't want to upgrade the PS4.5 will not be getting its own games or exclusive features, according to the site. From October every PS4 game will come with a base mode and a NEO mode, making it compatible with either console. Players will be able to keep the games bought on PS4, and although the NEO supports 4K the games won't have to.
