Geoff Keighley is everywhere right now and his Summer Game Fest has helped highlight some wonderful things so far. So when he casually dropped that he was going to show off hands-on impressions of the PlayStation 5 controller, the DualSense that was cool. The fact that also includes hands-on impressions of a PlayStation 5 game was a wonderful added bonus. You can watch Geoff’s video below!
Astro’s Playroom was announced as a pre-installed game that comes with the PlayStation 5 that is a multi hour game and we got to see everything the controller can do. We could hear the sound escaping from the speaker, got to see the touchpad in action and lots of other cool features.
We still don’t know when the PlayStation 5 will be coming out but we do know what to expect from the console. You can check out the specs below.
| CPU | 8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz (variable frequency) |
|---|---|
| GPU | 10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz (variable frequency) |
| GPU Architecture | Custom RDNA 2 |
| Memory/Interface | 16GB GDDR6/256-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 448GB/s |
| Internal Storage | Custom 825GB SSD |
| IO Throughput | 5.5GB/s (Raw), Typical 8-9GB/s (Compressed) |
| Expandable Storage | NVMe SSD Slot |
| External Storage | USB HDD Support |
| Optical Drive | 4K UHD Blu-ray Drive |
We will no doubt start hearing more and more information about the PlayStation 5 soon, especially with the first hands-on with the controller shown. It will be interesting to see what Sony do to counteract the Microsoft even on July 23rd, which will be showing off some of the big games coming to Xbox Series X.
What console excites you the most for next gen so far? Make sure to let us know over on Twitter. We think, at least during the launch window, it’ll definitely come down to who has the strongest launch line-up. We can’t wait to see what both PlayStation and Xbox have to announce for that!
By the way. Are you curious why PlayStation controllers have the shapes they do on the face buttons? Check out our video below to find out!
Featured Image Credit: Sony