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Ken Kutaragi, the founder of PlayStation and architect of the first three PlayStation consoles, has said that people being upset about Sony’s discontinuation of game discs is probably a “mentality issue”. He understands it, he noted, but that doesn’t make it “economically reasonable” for Sony to keep printing them.

Orange isn’t the most reassuring color to see displayed on a device. It’s something that can trigger a visceral reaction of panic, given its use for elements like check engine lights in a car and faulty power supplies for past consoles. Thankfully, on a PlayStation 5 it’s nothing to worry about; it just means the console…

Two decades, 87 million units and two new generations later, the PlayStation 3 is well into its end-of-life phase. As expected, most third-party services have dropped support for the console, with Crunchyroll pulling its app in 2022, followed by Plex in 2023, then Netflix in March 2026. 

Sony’s Generation Super Sampling patent describes a possible PS6 frame-generation system that uses motion vectors and controller input to predict a frame before rendering finishes, potentially reducing latency and supporting multi-frame generation. The patent provides no performance or image-quality results, and the technology’s arrival on PS6 is unconfirmed.

In a YouTube video that went live on September 8, developer Devran Cosmo Uenal booted the PlayStation 5 version of Quake II on an Xbox Series X and played it with an Xbox controller. But the game was running through PS5X, Uenal’s Xbox port of the open- working alongside it

While Sony’s current image in the industry has taken a major hit — an errant focus on live service games, controversially choosing to do away with discs, and severing ties with Hideo Kojima will do that for you — the PlayStation brand continues to perform strongly to this day. From the early days of the PlayStation…

Not one, but two PlayStation console-exclusive games have been confirmed to be shutting down. One is set to shut down next week, while the other is set to shut down at the end of the year on December 31. One of the two games was just released back in 2023, while the other was released…

Sony’s next-generation console is facing a stark new economic reality. New claims from a prominent hardware leaker suggest that the memory and storage components for the PlayStation 6 alone will cost Sony over $680 per unit.

The PlayStation 6 is likely going to cost more than $1000, as its RAM and SSD alone cost $680

Microsoft is reportedly considering a major shift towards Xbox exclusives, with a new survey asking gamers how they’d feel about Minecraftdropping support for PlayStation and Nintendo. The move could also raise questions about the future of Call of Duty, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.