Sony Latest news (2)

Michael Zegar, 14 December 2021, 21:55

An exploit has been released for version 9.0 of the PS4, enabling users to install their own software on the console - including pirated games. It should also work on PS5, but due to lack of hardware for testing, the crackers are unable to verify this.

Dawid Wanat, 13 December 2021, 16:09

PlayStation 5 has more fans among gamers than Xbox Series X/S. This is according to a survey by DFC Intelligence, which brought some interesting conclusions.

Przemyslaw Dygas, 07 December 2021, 13:22

Research on gift ideas in the US leaves no illusion - the PS5 is hugely popular.

Miriam Moszczynska, 24 November 2021, 15:27

Women in the tech industry have not had the best of times lately. A former Sony employee has filed a lawsuit accusing the company of discrimination and wrongful dismissal based on her gender.

Milosz Szubert, 18 November 2021, 15:41

According to data from analyst firm Ampere, the Xbox Series S console is selling better than its more powerful brother, the Xbox Series X, in „several key markets”. Microsoft's consoles, however, lag behind the PlayStation 5.

Jacob Blazewicz, 28 October 2021, 14:03

The PlayStation 5 will likely beat PS4 sales in first year, even though the new console remains hard to come by.

Adrian Werner, 19 October 2021, 14:36

For the first time in 33 months, more PlayStation 5 consoles were sold in the U.S. market than Nintendo Switch.

Arkadiusz Strzala, 16 September 2021, 15:37

Sony has unveiled a new color for its Pulse 3D wireless headphones. As with the DualSense pad, they will be available for purchase in Midnight Black. Maybe a black PS5 to match them will be coming next?

Jacob Blazewicz, 08 July 2021, 15:44

Firmware 21.01-03.21.00 for PlayStation 5 is now available for download. The new update focuses on improving the performance of the console.

Jacob Blazewicz, 05 July 2021, 21:37

Studio Bend is looking for a programmer to work on a new AAA game. The job offer confirms that the new work of the creators of Days Gone will offer network features.

Agnes Adamus, 05 July 2021, 20:34

The rumors of Sony acquiring Bluepoint are not going away. Insiders suggest that this scenario will actually come true and the announcement will be made later this week. On the other hand, creators of Demon's Souls remake continue to emphasize their independence.

Jacob Blazewicz, 21 April 2021, 22:05

Sony has patented another interesting solution. The company wants to allow AI to learn the habits of the player, so that it can later help him complete the game.

Jacob Blazewicz, 08 February 2021, 22:53

Sony has confirmed the launch date of PlayStation 5 in China. It looks like gamers there (and elsewhere) will have to be patient.

Arkadiusz Strzala, 19 January 2021, 21:09

Shortages of PS5 persist all over the world. It would seem that in Japan - the home of Sony's console - the situation should be better. However, the opposite is true and this state of affairs has persisted for some time, which strongly annoys the local gamers.

Adrian Werner, 16 September 2020, 23:48

The PlayStation 5 Showcase will be launched today at 1 PM PT. We expect Sony to reveal the prices and release date of the PS5.

Paul Wozniak, 04 August 2020, 20:07

Thanks to Sony's financial report, we have learned about sales of PlayStation 4 in the first quarter of this fiscal year. In this case we are observing a downward trend, but the company can be satisfied with the results in other segments.

Adrian Werner, 10 July 2020, 11:51

Sony bought a minority stake in Epic Games for a quarter of a billion dollars. This is to help strengthen the cooperation between the two companies, but no exclusive agreements were mentioned.

Adrian Werner, 15 June 2020, 14:52

All indications are that the user interface offered by PlayStation 5 will be very different from what the PS4 offers.

Arkadiusz Strzala, 05 June 2020, 13:55

A patent published yesterday revealed the cooling system of PlayStation 5's devkit. It consists of six fans and a steam chamber. Will a similar system dissipate heat in the final version?

Bart Swiatek, 22 May 2020, 11:23

PlayStation 5's SSD is expected to be a hundred times faster than the disk used in PlayStation 4, and Sony considers this technology essential to achieving higher levels of immersion in games.

Paul Wozniak, 13 May 2020, 13:14

Sony has published a financial report for the last fiscal year, in which, among other things, the company assured that the launch of PlayStation 5 console is not threatened. We also found out that the game created for the new platform avoided major problems due to the coronavirus pandemic and learned the new sales results of PS4.

Bart Swiatek, 13 May 2020, 09:46

Sony will create a new publishing label, PlayStation Studios, for first party titles, i.e. games created by or in cooperation with the internal studios of the Japanese giant.

Bart Swiatek, 17 April 2020, 13:19

Sony has patented a robot to act as a companion for the gamers. The device is to be able to sense the user's emotions and respond to their sadness or joy.

Adrian Werner, 10 April 2020, 16:36

There were new rumors about the return of the Silent Hill series, according to which, work on the project was entrusted to Sony's in-house studio known from the Gravity Rush series. The reports were a bit more credible thanks to a Japanese manga artist, who recently visited Konami's headquarters.

Milosz Szubert, 10 April 2020, 15:55

The official presentation of DualSense to PlayStation 5 has gained enormous popularity. In just a few hours, it became one of the most popular Twitter posts ever made in the video game industry. The ad is also doing great on Instagram.

Bart Swiatek, 03 April 2020, 12:46

Windows Central editors report that Sony encountered serious problems while working on the PS5. The console is reportedly overheating and it cannot be ruled out that both its cooling system and case will have to be redesigned.

Adrian Werner, 03 April 2020, 12:27

Naughty Dog released a large set of new screenshots from The Last of Us: Part II. They should alleviate the feeling of disappointment that was triggered yesterday's report of another, this time indefinite, delay in the game's release.

Adrian Werner, 01 April 2020, 19:51

Sony's Russian department has refused to release Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered on PlayStation Store. The reason could be the famous No Russian mission.

Milosz Szubert, 24 March 2020, 20:11

Sony intends to reduce the download speed and performance of its Internet service in Europe. This is to avoid overloading the connections necessary for remote operation and communication.

Bart Swiatek, 24 March 2020, 11:49

Dolby, a well-known sound technology company, has decided to correct one of Mark Cerny's statements from Road to PS5 about the capabilities of Dolby Atmos.

Bart Swiatek, 23 March 2020, 13:09

Digital Foundry's John Linneman stressed in a Twitter post that a faster drive in the PlayStation 5 does not mean that the whole console will be more efficient - in terms of GPU and CPU, Sony's hardware is inferior to the competitive Xbox Series X.

Mathias Zulpo, 23 March 2020, 11:30

Catch up with last week’s news and features to get back into the gaming loop again. From March 16 to March 22, 2020, here’s everything you need to know.

Paul Wozniak, 20 March 2020, 22:36

Sony has ensured that the vast majority of games currently available on the PS4 will also be playable on the next-generation console, PlayStation 5, thanks to backward compatibility.

Bart Swiatek, 18 March 2020, 17:00

In just a few hours a stream will start, during which the chief designer of the PS5 - Mark Cerny - will present the specs of the new Sony console. According to some experts it is „the most exciting hardware in 20 years”.

Mathias Zulpo, 17 March 2020, 13:59

Official PlayStation 5 announcement is coming tomorrow, Sony announced in a surprise tweet. The presentation is to „provide a deep dive into PS5’s system architecture, and how it will shape the future of games.”.

Adrian Werner, 13 March 2020, 15:54

There have been rumors on the web that work is already underway to re-boot the Silent Hill series, and that the key creators of the first few installments are to be involved in the project. Moreover, there may be plans to resurrect the canceled Silent Hills from Hideo Kojima.

Mathias Zulpo, 10 March 2020, 16:21

As revealed in a Q&A session with Head of PlayStation Worldwide Studio Herman Hulst, Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition will officially debut on Steam this summer.

Adrian Werner, 09 March 2020, 13:53

The auction of Nintendo PlayStation, a prototype console that has never been officially distributed, has ended. The winning bid was $360,000.

Bart Swiatek, 06 March 2020, 10:50

AMD has announced that a total of more than 150 million PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles have been delivered to the stores. By comparing this data with the information disclosed by Sony, we know that sales of Microsoft's device are about 41 million.

Paul Wozniak, 01 March 2020, 17:20

According to the latest leak from NeoGAF, the PlayStation 5 Pro console will match the power of Xbox Series X, new details of which have recently been revealed. We also learned that Microsoft is preparing a weaker version of the ninth generation console, with performance similar to that of PS5.

Paul Wozniak, 27 February 2020, 21:07

We have just learned that more companies have resigned from participating in this year's edition of GDC. These are Microsoft, Unity and Epic Games, which, like their predecessors, fear for the health of their employees due to the coronavirus epidemic.

Paul Wozniak, 19 February 2020, 13:10

With over 100 million players using PlayStation 4, Sony has decided to organise an action with avatars and themes to be won. Everyone will also get a chance to win a special set, which includes a platinum trophy with the winner's nickname engraved on it.

Bart Swiatek, 17 February 2020, 15:12

The NPD group has noted a significant drop in interest in the current generation of consoles - PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Sales dropped more sharply than expected by Sony and Microsoft.

Paul Wozniak, 14 February 2020, 15:43

Today, an official announcement from Sony has informed of the closure of the PlayStation forum. The website will be suspended beginning with February 27, while the Japanese company encourages users to use other social networking sites.

Adrian Werner, 14 February 2020, 13:14

There have been reports that production costs of PlayStation 5 are higher than expected due to a shortage of memory chips. The same sources suggest that a new version of PlayStation VR is planned.

Adrian Werner, 11 February 2020, 11:07

Certain documents surfaced on the web, thanks to which we learned that Sony paid 229 million dollars for the acquisition of Insomniac Games, the studio known for the Ratchet & Clank series and Marvel's Spider-Man, among others.

Jacob Blazewicz, 10 February 2020, 23:41

Nvidia and Sony have confirmed that they will not appear on Mobile World Congress 2020 in Barcelona due to the coronavirus threat. Thus, the companies joined LG, Ericsson, and many other exhibitors, who gave up their participation in the Spanish fair.

Adrian Werner, 10 February 2020, 12:38

Sony has obtained a patent for a hint system to analyze gameplay of the player and other users, and then provide advice to help them succeed in games.

Bart Swiatek, 05 February 2020, 12:59

An excerpt from the conference summarizing Sony's quarterly financial results suggests that even the Japanese company doen't yet know how much the PlayStation 5 console will cost.

Adrian Werner, 05 February 2020, 12:10

Sony announced that it will soon dissolve the Manchester Studio devteam, which was established in 2015 to create VR games.