It’s been widely rumored that Microsoft is working on two new consoles for the next generation, but it looks like Sony beat them to the punch. Today, Sony revealed our first look at not one but two new PS5s: a standard edition and an all digital edition, coming at the end of an impressive spate of trailers. Both are a radical departure from the black box design that has defined consoles since the PS2, with the same white and black two tone concept we saw with the controller. Let’s check it out:
There is a distinctly futurist vibe do it, almost mod. The version with the disc drive bulges out on one side, the version without the disc drive just goes straight up. We also have matching camera, controller and media remote in a image below, everything rocking that same Apple-inspired molded white plastic.
Overall, I’m a fan. I like it when any electronics company takes a risk when it comes to form factor, and there’s going to be no mistaking that thing in any entertainment console. Like the Xbox Series X, it’s also being showcased primarily in a vertical orientation, though we’ll have to check back to make sure it can go horizontal as well. I was a little worried when I first saw the controller, but I came to like the weirdness over time. I like it even more now that it’s been dialed up to the whole console.
We’ll check back in later, but overall it was a much stronger showing than Microsoft’s somewhat lackluster third-party event. Sony has been fairly quiet for the bulk of the this early next-gen console war, but it showed today that it’s more than capable of making an entrance. Look forward to more discussion of the trailers and everything else we saw today, but overall I like the direction the company is going in.
