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PlayStation India Team Confirms PS5 Pre-Orders Will Not Be Available Again Ahead of February 2 Release Date

Technology news website Gadgets 360 reported on Friday that Sony India has confirmed that the PlayStation 5 console will not be available for pre-orders again before its February 2 release date. The first round of pre-orders went live on Tuesday at 12:00 p.m. IST and were sold out within minutes.

The PlayStation India Team stated to Gadgets 360:

We are not planning pre-order for PS5 before 2nd February. Please stay in touch with retailers for future pre-order updates.

The PS5 is listed with retail websites such as Games The Shop, Amazon, Flipkart, Reliance Digital, and Croma.

The PlayStation 5 will retail for ₹49,990, and the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition (which does not include the disc slot) will retail for ₹39,990 in India. However, only the more expensive edition will be available at launch in India.

The PS5 launched in the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea on November 12.

The PS5 features a PlayStation Plus Collection for PlayStation Plus subscribers. The collection includes PlayStation 4 games that are playable for subscribers. The games include Bloodborne, Monster Hunter World, Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Persona 5, and Resident Evil VII: biohazard.

The PS5 has the new DualSense wireless controller. The controller standardizes the use of the controller's "X" button as the confirm button across all regions. The controller features haptic feedback, a built-in microphone array, and adaptive triggers in the L2 and R2 buttons. Sony also changed the hand triggers' angles and altered the controller's grip. The new "Create" button replaces the PlayStation 4 DualShock 4 controller's "Share" button, which players can use to create gameplay content. The controller has a two-toned design with light bars at each side of the touch pad.

The console supports some M2 drives, and SIE will announce in the future which drives will fit. The console's graphics core uses ray tracing and primitive shaders to allow a broad array of details.

The console's developers targeted the PS5's SSD to have an IO throughput of 5.5 GB/s with instantaneous seek time. The console's custom RDNA 2 has 10.28 TFLOPS and 36 CUs with variable frequency capped at 2.23 GHz.

Developers aimed to utilize hundreds of advanced sound sources for the PS5. The system utilizes head-related transfer function (HRTF) to render 3D audio through headphones and TV speakers with a Tempest 3D Audio Tech engine. The console has 5 HRTFs available at launch.

PS5 lead system architect Mark Cerny stated during "The Road to PS5" livestream presentation in March 2020 that "almost all" PS4 titles are playable on the PS5, and Sony later outlined 10 games that are compatible with only PS4. Backward compatible titles run at a boosted frequency on PS5, which may result in higher or more stable frame rates and higher resolutions. The company has evaluated and tested hundreds of games to find issues that needed adjustment.

Source: Gadgets 360 (Jagmeet Singh) (link 2, Akhil Arora)