Sony PlayStation 5 Console Development Kit And Design Seems To Be Announced

According to reports by Codemasters developers it seem that they have confirmed that the design of the newly leaked PS5 development kit is real. Sony's last console, Playstation 4, has shipped more than 100 million units since its original launch in 2014 (more than double the 41 million Xbox Ones that Microsoft's competitors have sold), and the company now seems ready to move forward to the next hardware generation.

Earlier this week, a Brazilian patent filed by Sony made many people assume that the Playstation 5 dev kit was under development. Not to mention, Crytek's recent comments about SSD (solid-state drives) as an integral part of the next generation of consoles have made many people wonder how much information the AAA developers currently have on consoles that hasn't been released to the public. It makes sense that a number of video game companies must have worked on the title for the new system, otherwise there would not be a ready release day when the next generation of consoles was announced.

According to a report by LetsGoDigital, this newly leaked patent is a real design for Sony's new PS5 development kit, confirmed by Matthew Stott, a senior artist at Codemasters. In a tweet, Stott stated that the images that were circulating did indeed show the Playstation dev kit and that they "had several in the office," even though certain numbers were not mentioned. Since then, both Matthew Stott's tweets and Twitter accounts have been deleted. LetsGoDigital also makes some 3D rendering of what looks like a dev kit, which is illustrated below.

While the design of this dev kit patent might seem strange to some people, it's important to remember that development kits rarely look the same as the final console version that ends up on a store shelf. Although the official wording on the hardware patent list is "unknown device," Stott's comments and their rapid removal from the internet seem to indicate that it is indeed related to the ongoing development of Playstation 5, which according to Sony is being made with gamers " hard-core "in mind and can be available as soon as 2020.

A new generation of consoles is always a fun time for gamers, with new development tools and more powerful processors often making developers down the exciting new gameplay that has never been crossed. If Codemasters has several PS5 developer tools in their office, then it is certain that many other AAA developers are also doing it, and one's mind can only imagine what kind of graphics and next generation experiences that players from their favorite companies can look forward to in the future.