Watch the PlayStation 5 event here!

We’re just minutes away from Sony’s much hyped PlayStation 5 event and excitement is building across the globe. #PS5Reveal is the top trend on Twitter and many people are getting the beers in and settling for what they hope is going to be a great show.

Sony are said to have watched Microsoft’s recent event very closely, especially the criticism that all the gameplay trailers were actually cinematics. As a result we hear that we’re going to see a lot of in-game engine gameplay rather than fancy pre-rendered bobbins.

So, snacks at the ready, it’s almost showtime! The event begins at 9pm and you can watch on YouTube below and also at Twitch.com/PlayStation

Note that Sony have said that due to the current pandemic they have had to scale things back slightly and the stream will only be 1080p and 30fps, but all the trailers will be available in 4K straight after the show and we will be posting them as fast as we can.

While you wait why not catch up with everything we already know about the PlayStation 5! We’ve also put together our predictions for the reveal, why not check them out an laugh when they’re all wrong.

In the updated post on the PlayStation Blog, Senior Director, SIE Content Communications Sid Shuman suggested that there will be some “cool audio work” during the show that will be better appreciated when wearing headphones than watching (listening?) with a phone or laptop’s speakers.

This is sure to be a part of Sony’s push for enhancing audio with the PlayStation 5’s Tempest Engine. This is Sony’s homegrown alternative to Dolby Atmos, able to calculate many, many more sound sources, how they will interact with the environment, and ultimately how those sounds will then interact with your ears. The PlayStation 5 will have a set of HRTF profiles at launch, letting it output sound that is tuned to a range of different ear shapes for more realistic sounding positional audio.

The Tempest Engine is also designed to be more universal than other solutions, able to work with not just headsets, but also soundbars, PSVR, surround sound and just regular TV speakers. However on day one it will work best with headphones, and also when trying to demonstrate its effects in a live stream.