Items tagged with PlayStation
Sony’s move into PC gaming didn’t last long, with the company pledging to return to a strategy driven by PlayStation console exclusives earlier this year. As part of its efforts to step back from providing its games or services on the PC...
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Sony’s PlayStation Portal, which launched back in 2023, initially served as a way for players to stream their games from their PlayStation 5 but has slowly evolved through software updates to become a more versatile handheld. Its next...
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Former PlayStation CEO Shawn Layden made a rather interesting comment on The Trophy Room podcast this week, stating that "the innovation needs to come not from making PS6 for $1200. It's to make another PS5 for $300. Now, that would be...
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Sony is preparing to increase investment in its next-generation PlayStation platform even as the PS5 approaches the 100-million-unit milestone. During its latest earnings call, Sony CFO Lin Tao confirmed that next-generation research and...
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Sony just released system firmware 14.20 for its PlayStation 5 consoles, following reports that system firmware version 14.10 had already been cracked.
While Sony's official patch note for the update is "We've improved the messages and...
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Next-generation consoles have long been rumored to flirt with PC-tier pricing, though we mostly anticipated that for Microsoft's Project Helix. Now, industry supply constraints may force Sony's hand as well. According to leaker Kepler_L2...
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According to ZDNet Korea, Sony is transferring 419 extended-reality (XR) patents and patent applications to Meta, raising serious questions about the future of PlayStation VR. The portfolio spans virtual reality (VR), augmented reality...
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Sony has filed a patent that illustrates how a game's non-playable characters (including enemies and bosses) could use a machine learning (ML) model to dynamically adjust to a player's behaviors, which could allow some single-player games...
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It's an interesting time for Sony's PlayStation brand, with controversy surrounding the PlayStation 6's shift-to-digital only, and little news about the PlayStation Portal, until today. While there is a next-gen PlayStation 6...
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Fans of physical game releases, don't give up hope yet, because there are rays of sunshine peeking through the dark clouds of the all-digital future. First, it got out that Microsoft was surveying fans about supporting game discs with its...
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Sony has submitted a patent for an automated, cloud-based AI model that is designed to continuously monitor consumer electronics (like PlayStaion consoles or headphones), detect subtle software anomalies, and deploy custom repair code to...
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It’s only been about two weeks since Hideo Kojima rocked the gaming world with the announcement that the much anticipated Physint, which is the successor to the iconic Metal Gear series, would now be happening in collaboration with...
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DuckStation, one of the more popular Sony PlayStation 1 emulators, received a major update that significantly boosts performance and enhances the user experience. The developers of DuckStation have incorporated multi-threaded shader...
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After Hideo Kojima's infamous split from Konami following the release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, fans of the legendary Metal Gear series were left waiting for Kojima's next big stealth project. While Death Stranding and Death...
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Sony has stepped in to correct misconceptions surrounding the future of PlayStation disc manufacturing, asserting that physical production will experience a 10% dip by 2028 rather than the previously rumored 90%. Can we breathe a sigh of relief now, maybe?
If you've been keeping up with the...
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Grand Theft Auto VI has reached stratospheric levels of hype after Rockstar dropped an extended look of the game on Netflix last week. Sony is looking to capitalize on that excitement with two limited edition DualSense controllers that...
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Sony and LEGO are tapping into 1990s nostalgia with the upcoming release of a near 1:1 scale brick-built replica of the original PlayStation console that debuted in the U.S. in 1995 (and 1994 in Japan). Unveiled during the latest State of...
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Sony’s decision to phase out physical PlayStation game discs beginning in 2028 has been met with fierce backlash from the gaming community, leading to calls for a blackout of the platform and rumors of pushback from publishing partners...
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Sony has gotten significant pushback from the gaming community after announcing its plans to no longer support physical media releases on its PlayStation consoles beyond the end of 2027. It has led to a deluge of negative comments on...
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Sony’s first official PlayStation-branded desktop display has graduated from preorder status to a shipping product. First revealed in late 2025, the 'PlayStation 27-inch Gaming Monitor with DualSense Charging Hook' (full name) is now...
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It’s been nearly two months since Sony announced that the future of PlayStation is going to be all-digital, sparking a furor amongst the gaming community. The company’s social media announcements have usually received hundreds of messages...
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U.S. video game spending tanked in July as soaring hardware prices and a rapid shift toward digital downloads crushed traditional retail sales, which haven't been this bad since 1995.
The gaming market faced a major slump last month...
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