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Sony continues to gradually reveal new tidbits about its next-generation console, now officially called the PlayStation 5. In an interview with Wired, the company opened up about the system’s release window and new features, which include improvements to game installation and user interface.

According to system architect Mark Cerny, PS5 will boast a “revamped” UI that will make it much easier to, say, see what multiplayer matches you can jump into or what single-player missions are available without having to load a game. As Cerny explains:

“Even though it will be fairly fast to boot games, we don’t want the player to have to boot the game, see what’s up, boot the game, see what’s up. Multiplayer game servers will provide the console with the set of joinable activities in real time. Single-player games will provide information like what missions you could do and what rewards you might receive for completing them—and all of those choices will be visible in the UI. As a player you just jump right into whatever you like.”

As Sony had previously confirmed, the PS5 will also be ditching a standard hard drive in favor of a solid-state drive (much like Microsoft’s next-gen Project Scarlett), which will dramatically reduce load times. That isn’t the only way Sony will be improving the user experience, however. While game installs will still be mandatory on PS5, Sony says players will have more control over which aspects of a game they wish to install.

“Rather than treating games like a big block of data, we’re allowing finer-grained access to the data,” Cerny says. An example Wired mentions is only installing a game’s multiplayer component, or installing the entire game and then deleting the single-player portion from your system once you’ve completed it.

PlayStation 5 is slated to launch Holiday 2020. There is still much we don’t know about the console, but Sony recently confirmed that the PS5 controller will have haptic feedback, and porting specialist Bluepoint is working on a PS5 title. For more on the anticipated next-gen system, check out our roundup of everything we know about the PS5.

Sony has officially announced the PlayStation 5, along with new details on the PS5 hardware, controller, and UI. The big question remains when you’ll be able to get your hands on one, and while Sony hasn’t put a stamp on a specific date, it did narrow it significantly.

The announcement from SIE CEO Jim Ryan said it will be “launching in time for holiday 2020.” That assures it will come out sometime before the gift-giving season, and the phrasing suggests it will be sometime close to the holidays. New PlayStation hardware has usually launched in the fall, so the PS5 will likely hit late next year.

That will give Sony plenty of time to continue outlining the new hardware. Ryan says “there’s much more to share about PlayStation 5 in the year ahead,” which again suggests a release in late 2020. It’s unknown at this point if Sony will hold dedicated reveal events or appear at E3 2020, after deciding to forgo a presence this year.

What we do know is that the new (unnamed) controller will feature haptic feedback and adaptive triggers, and Bluepoint Games is already at work on something “big” for the system. A new user interface will also give you more information without needing to jump directly into a game.

Sony has officially announced the PlayStation 5 is coming next holiday season and started to share more details on hardware including the new haptic controller. Of course, games make all the difference, and we know of at least one developer currently on a PS5 project.

Bluepoint Games, a studio known for handling acclaimed remasters like Shadow of the Colossus and Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, is at work on a game. Marco Thrush, president of Bluepoint, dropped a comment about its current projects to Wired.

“We’re working on a big one right now,” said Thrush. “I’ll let you figure out the rest.”

The comment could indicate another port, optimized for the PS5 hardware, or Bluepoint may have been tapped to help with the workload for another studio’s game. Alternatively, Bluepoint could be making its own original game, having spent years developing on PlayStation hardware.

We know that the PS5 will use an SSD for quicker load times, and supports ray tracing. The controller is said to have haptic feedback and adaptive triggers that allow developers to program the level of resistance when you use them. All of that hardware power and new bells and whistles are starting to go out to developers with official dev kits, so it remains to be seen how it will be used.

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Sony has now officially announced the PlayStation 5, and confirmed it will be coming by holiday 2020. As part of the rollout, the company began explaining some of the PS5‘s new hardware features, beginning with its controller, which is–at least at this stage–not yet called the DualShock 5 as you’d expect.

In a blog post, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan detailed two key features making their debut on the new controller. The first is haptics instead of rumble, which Ryan says gives a “broader range of feedback.” You’ll feel different sensations from taking a tackle in Madden or running through a field, for example. The second is adaptive triggers on L2/R2, which allows developers to customize the triggers’ resistance. Not to be confused with the trigger lock featured on something like the Xbox Elite controller, which reduce the amount the trigger needs to be pulled, this would instead allow a game to vary how difficult the trigger itself is to use. Ryan cites the example that you could feel the resistance of pulling back a bow string.

Ryan said that the haptics and adaptive triggers together “can produce a powerful experience that better simulates various actions,” and developers are already getting kits to start tinkering with the new tools.

Despite the new details, there’s one piece of information we don’t know yet: the name. In an interview with Wired, hardware architect Mark Cerny noted that the controller “doesn’t have a name yet.” History would suggest that it will be called the DualShock 5, but for the time being Sony isn’t committing to that name. When Sony first started talking about the PS5, the company said it didn’t have an official name yet either.

Every week, you can find new content on your favorite streaming services like Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and AMC’s horror-themed Shudder. If you’re a fan of zombie movies, then this is a good week for you.

On Monday, Shudder is releasing the 2018 film Ever After. It takes place two years after a zombie apocalypse in Germany, and two women are fleeing a town infested with the undead, trying to make it to a safe haven. Ever After is a bit different than your average zombie flick. It’s slower paced, comparatively, and the film does its best to envelope the audience within this world rather than rely on jump scares. Also, the zombies in this movie run, so there are moments where there is an immediate sense of urgency. Also coming to Shudder, on Thursday, is Season 4 of Syfy’s horror anthology series Channel Zero. Shudder has the exclusive rights to the show, so that’s the only place to watch it after it airs.

Hulu has a zombie movie arriving on Friday. Little Monsters stars Josh Gad and Lupita Nyong’o as a kids TV show host and a teacher, respectively, who are on a mission to protect a group of children from a zombie outbreak. The horror-comedy is directed and written by Australian comedy-writer Abe Forsythe. The Hulu original arrives on October 11.

Amazon Prime Video doesn’t have much coming out this week. It’s football season, so you can find the NFL’s Thursday night football games on Amazon, and this week, the New York Giants take on the Patriots. There is also a kid’s show arriving on Friday–Costume Quest: Season 1b–but that’s it for Amazon this week.

Below, you’ll find everything coming to Amazon, Hulu, and Shudder this week. For more streaming info, check out everything headed to Netflix this week, and what’s arriving to it in October.

New to Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and Shudder this week:

Monday, October 7

Hulu

• Kids Say the Darndest Things: Series Premiere (ABC)
• The Real Housewives of New Jersey: Complete Season 9 (Bravo)
• Missing Link (2019)

Shudder

• Ever After

Wednesday, October 9

Hulu

• Megan Leavey (2017)

Thursday, October 10

Amazon

• Thursday Night Football: Giants @ Patriots (NFL)

Shudder

• Channel Zero: The Dream Door

Friday, October 11

Amazon

• Costume Quest: Season 1b – Amazon Original series

Hulu

• The Bravest Knight: Complete Season 1B (Hulu Original)
• Little Monsters (2019)
• Trespassers (2019)

Sony has officially confirmed its next-generation console will be called the PlayStation 5, as well as when it’s coming out: The PS5 will launch in Holiday 2020. It’s also shared the first details on its controller–at least for now, not yet called the DualShock 5–and more about the discs it uses, ray-tracing support, SSD, UI features, and other aspects of the system. Here’s what we learned.

The company announced the news in a blog post. “I’m proud to share that our next-generation console will be called PlayStation 5, and we’ll be launching in time for Holiday 2020,” said Sony Interactive Entertainment present Jim Ryan. “These updates may not be a huge surprise, but we wanted to confirm them for our PlayStation fans, as we start to reveal additional details about our vision for the next generation.”

Ryan went on to share more details on Sony’s vision for the next generation, as well as its plans for the PS5 controller: “One of our goals with the next generation is to deepen the feeling of immersion when you play games, and we had the opportunity with our new controller to reimagine how the sense of touch can add to that immersion.

“To that end, there are two key innovations with the PlayStation 5’s new controller. First, we’re adopting haptic feedback to replace the ‘rumble’ technology found in controllers since the 5th generation of consoles. With haptics, you truly feel a broader range of feedback, so crashing into a wall in a race car feels much different than making a tackle on the football field. You can even get a sense for a variety of textures when running through fields of grass or plodding through mud.

“The second innovation is something we call adaptive triggers, which have been incorporated into the trigger buttons (L2/R2). Developers can program the resistance of the triggers so that you feel the tactile sensation of drawing a bow and arrow or accelerating an off-road vehicle through rocky terrain. In combination with the haptics, this can produce a powerful experience that better simulates various actions. Game creators have started to receive early versions of the new controller, and we can’t wait to see where their imagination goes with these new features at their disposal.”

Sony shared more details on the PS5 in an interview with Wired. The company reassured fans, for example, that the hard drive seen in current-gen consoles is out, and a faster, more efficient solid-state drive is in. More new details include:

• The PS5 will include a disc drive for physical games and 4K Blu-rays.
• PS5 discs will have a capacity of 100 GB.
• Game installation is mandatory, but the console will allow you to just install a multiplayer campaign, for example, or install the entire game and then delete the single-player portion once you’re done.
• The controller “doesn’t have a name yet,” but contains an improved speaker, USB-C connectivity, and a larger-capacity battery.
• “There is ray-tracing acceleration in the GPU hardware,” says Mark Cerny, lead system architect.
• The new UI will allow you to see more details on what you can play at any time, as well as more on what your friends are doing.
• Bluepoint Games, the studio behind remakes such as Shadow of the Colossus and Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, is working on a PS5 game that it says is a “big” one.

Sony has not yet shared what the PS5 will look like, nor its precise release date or price point. Earlier this year the company did state it was working on a new PlayStation, but stopped short of confirming a release window or name, so this is the first time those details have been confirmed. We do know is that the PS5 will be better for the environment and that it will support backwards compatibility in some way. For more, check out everything we know about the PS5.