Hello friends The PlayStation 5 is a difficult thing to review. Not because it’s technically demanding, nor indeed because it’s in any way underwhelming, but because the sweeping majority of consumers have already decided that they want one. Gamesindustry.biz ran a survey soon after preorders opened and found that around 80% of those asked were opting for Sony’s new console over the Xbox Series X. With stats like these, who needs opinions? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not here to swim against the current. The PS5 is every bit as impressive as you’d expect and I’d urge any self-respecting PlayStation fan to go out and nab one immediately – if you haven’t already. But with so many people ready to stake a fair amount of cash on the PlayStation 5, I think it’s worth properly scrutinising the machine that appears to have won the console war before it even started. The new AMD-made processors can run games in 4K at up to 120 frames per second (or at least a stable 30), while the custom SSD storage drive reduces load times and speeds up navigation of the new user interface significantly. In terms of specifics, the PS5 houses an 825GB NVMe SSD, paired with 16GB of GDDR6 RAM, an octa-core AMD Zen 2-based CPU clocked at 3.5GHz and an AMD RDNA 2-based GPU. Sony promises a total 10.28 teraFLOPS of power: that’s a huge amount more than the PS4 Pro’s 4.2 teraFLOPS, and an extraordinary upgrade over the original PS4’s meagre 1.84 teraFLOPS