Sony reveals the extremely wavy PlayStation 5 and a bunch of games—including a new Spider-Man
About a month ago, Microsoft showed off some of the new alien wall penises you can expect to see on the Xbox Series X (and also some more traditional video games without any wall penises), and today Sony decided to finally give the upcoming PlayStation 5 a proper showcase. The 80-minute online event had a ton of new games worth talking about, but it ended with an actual look at the console itself, and the thing is so weird that it’s hard to talk about anything else first. With a chunk of black plastic and blue lights sandwiched between wavy white sheets, the PlayStation 5 looks more like a sci-fi s’more than a game system—especially when compared to the Xbox Series X, which is just an emotionless black tower.
We’ve already seen the spaceship controller, so this shouldn’t be too surprising, but still… it’s a little surprising. The system will also be available in two variations, one with a disc drive and one without (though no pricing details were announced, so we don’t know what kind of cost difference there will be between the two of them). Anyway, here’s the thing in all its weirdo glory: