The Sony PlayStation 5 will go on sale today on various online and offline platforms, including Sony’s official ShopatSC website. Both Sony PlayStation 5 Standard Edition and Sony PlayStation 5 Digital Edition will be up for sale for Rs 49,990 and Rs 39,990, respectively.

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According to the company, the sale will start at 12 PM (noon), and interested customers must make sure that they book the console as soon as the pre-booking goes live. The Sony PlayStation 5 may even go on sale on other retailers including Amazon, Croma, Flipkart, Reliance Digital, Vijay Sales, and more.

The standard version with a Blu-Ray player has been priced at Rs 49,990 and the Digital edition of the console is priced at Rs 39,990. The PS 5 DualSense wireless controller - both midnight black and standard white options are in stock and can be bought for Rs 5,990 each.

As per the ShopatSC website, customers will get sale offers like Easy EMI, and the deliveries will start from December 15 onwards based on the location. Free home delivery is available from the nearest Sony Centre.

Sony launched the first PlayStation in 1994. The PS2, introduced in 2000 with a built-in DVD player, was a global success and recorded worldwide sales of about 155 million units. The PS5 uses an eight-core AMD Zen 2 CPU and a custom AMD RDNA 2-based GPU, which provides 10.28 teraflops of power with 36 compute units running at 2.23GHz each.

The Sony PlayStation 5 will have a solid-state drive (SSD) and will support features like real-time ray tracing. It will also support 4K graphics at a 120Hz refresh rate, 8K graphics and 3D audio.