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Recently, Sony announced it was ditching physical games to pursue an all-digital future. Instead of buying game discs, customers will have to buy digital copies. Except not really. Turns out you don’t own the digital titles you buy on PlayStation 5; you only purchase licenses that the company can revoke at any time. You don’t…

TL;DR: RPCS3, the popular PlayStation 3 emulator, now supports playing PS3 games directly from Blu-ray discs (internal or external) on Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD, enabling preservation and easy access to physical game libraries without needing an aging PS3 console. Voice: Kosta AndreadisSpeed 0:00 / 2:08 Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio.

TL;DR: Goldman Sachs analyst Minami Munakata estimates Sony’s January 2028 phase-out of game discs could lift PlayStation’s Game & Network Services operating margin by about 3% in FY28 (Apr 2028-Mar 2029), potentially restoring margins toward the 12%+ levels seen during COVID-19. Voice: DefaultSpeed 0:00 / 2:43 Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio.

A PS1 game is free with PlayStation Plus, but only for a week. The game in question is free specifically with a PS Plus Premium subscription until September 15. Once this deadline arrives, it will become inaccessible. The good news is that it can easily be beaten in a week, as the PS1 game in…

Sony’s PlayStation 5 runs on AMD hardware, using a custom chip that’s built on the company’s RDNA 2 graphics architecture. Finding a direct equivalent to the $900 PS5 Pro is a little difficult, as AMD’s recent PC offerings have mostly trumped the PS5 Pro in terms of performance. With an advertised uplift over the baseline…