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November 12, 2020

On November 12, 2020, the PlayStation 5 is released. The year's #1 song was "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd.

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2020 (MMXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2020th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 20th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade.

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On November 12, 2020

  1. 2020 The PlayStation 5 is released.

    Home video game console by Sony

    The PlayStation 5 (PS5) is the home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the fifth iteration of their PlayStation brand. It was announced as the successor to the PlayStation 4 in April 2019, was launched on November 12, 2020, in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, North America, and South Korea, and was released worldwide a week later. The PS5 is part of the ninth generation of video game consoles, along with Microsoft's Xbox Series X/S consoles, which were released in the same month.

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