The PlayStation 5 (PS5), developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment, was announced in April 2019 and launched in November 2020, competing with Microsoft's Xbox Series X/S as part of the ninth generation of consoles. Designed by lead architect Mark Cerny, its hardware focuses on a custom high-speed solid-state drive and an AMD GPU capable of 4K resolution at up to 120 frames per second, alongside hardware-accelerated ray tracing and the Tempest Engine for 3D audio. It introduced the DualSense controller with haptic feedback and offers backward compatibility with most PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR games, as well as support for the newer PSVR2 headset. Sony launched it in a standard model with an Ultra HD Blu-ray drive and a cheaper Digital Edition, later releasing slimmer revisions in November 2023 and a more powerful Pro model on November 7, 2024, featuring a faster GPU and AI-driven upscaling. Development heavily prioritized eliminating long loading times—prompted by feedback from Epic Games' Tim Sweeney about hard drive limits—and Sony notably avoided creating a lower-spec model like the Xbox Series S, believing such consoles become obsolete too quickly.