Since the invention of computing systems, there have been many major developments in people’s lifestyles. Technology has improved the lives of humans not only in the essential fields of medicine and food but also in less essential or niche fields such as recreation. Talking about recreation and technology, it is very difficult to ignore the phenomenon of gaming. Over the years, many people all around the world have been captured by gaming addiction.

According to Statista - a statistics research company formed a decade and a half ago in Hamburg, Germany - there were approximately 2.8 billion gamers on Planet Earth today two years ago in 2020. The spread of coronavirus and the growth of accessibility to technology means that the figure can only be expected to have increased since that time. Everyone was stuck at home so they had to have something to entertain themselves!

Against this backdrop, the importance of gaming consoles has increased by leaps and bounds. When the PlayStation 5 came out in late 2020, there was a lot of buzz about it. After all, Sony Interactive Entertainment releases new versions of its much-awaited home gaming console, the PlayStation, as infrequently as once in a decade! Research states that as of April 2021, approximately half a year into the release of the home gaming console, the PlayStation 5 was sold 7.8 million times. However, considering the number of PlayStation 4s sold is much higher at 116 million, it is not very difficult to conclude that many PlayStation 4 users are on the fence about whether or not it is worth it to upgrade to the PlayStation 5.

If you are one of these people, this article is ideal for you! How do we claim this with so much certainty? Because we know that, in this piece, we will be exploring all the differences between the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5.

An Important Tangent

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Graphics

If you were to ask the average gamer what they look most forward to in a gaming experience, their answer will, in the age of today, almost always be graphics. And fortunately, the newer version of the PlayStation does include graphics better than those featured in the prior version. Even though both use AMD Radeon chips, one’s graphics are much better because it has a higher number of CUs. While the PlayStation 4 had 18 CUs, the beauty that is the PlayStation 5 has as many as 36 CUs. The speed of the graphics processing unit varies according to how much speed is required. However, it is capped at 2.23 GHz. When it comes to the PS4, the speed of the GPU was fixed at 800 MHz.

The results of the amazing graphics features of the PlayStation 5 speak for themselves. The gaming console supports resolutions of 4K and even 8K. On the other hand, the resolution of its predecessor, the PlayStation 4, was a mere 1080p.

Storage

One of the biggest differences between the two consoles is in their storage systems. While the PlayStation 4 had its memory stored in a more old-fashioned hard drive system, the PlayStation 5 features the newer and, frankly, better Solid State Drive (SSD) system. SSDs are known to perform better than hard drives, especially in the case that a lot of memory has been taken up.

Price

No matter if it is a new MacBook or a new iPhone, whenever the latest version of a device is released, it starts getting sold at a price more expensive than the previous version. The same is the case with Sony Interactive Entertainment’s PlayStation brand. The standard version of the PlayStation 5 can be bought for five hundred dollars. You can also buy a Digital Edition that is a hundred bucks cheaper priced at four hundred dollars.

On the other hand, the PlayStation 4 is not much cheaper. The 1TB PS4 Pro costs four hundred dollars - the same price as the Digital Edition of the PS5. Nonetheless, you can get your hands on the gaming console at a price that is a hundred dollars lesser by buying the 1TB PS4 Slim – that version costs three hundred dollars.