Enlarge (credit: Sony / Youtube ) In an earnings call last night , Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki said that despite worldwide semiconductor shortages , the company has “secured a number of chips that’s necessary to achieve” the company’s current production target of at least 14. 8 million PlayStation 5 consoles in the current fiscal year […]
Fig. 1: The PS5 is among the quickest consoles ever to reach 10 million worldwide sales. When Sony announced Monday that it had sold 10 million PS5 consoles to consumers, it trumpeted the system as “the Fastest Selling Console in Sony Interactive Entertainment History.” The certainly sounds impressive, but it lacks the specificity we’d like […]
Seagate says its Firecuda 530 M. 2 drive will work with the PS5. [credit: Seagate ] New PlayStation 5 system software rolling out in beta today finally unlocks the long-promised ability to expand the system’s 667GB of usable internal storage, using M. 2 SSDs that fit certain technical and physical requirements. As listed on a […]
Returnaling, over and over, to remember the things we shot. [credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment / Housemarque ] Sony has announced that it has acquired Finnish indie developer Housemarque just two months after the launch of Housemarque’s Returnal as one of the highest-profile exclusives on the young PlayStation 5 console. Housemarque has a long history with Sony […]
Enlarge / No, it’s not fan-fiction. It’s just Rivet. In the run-up to the launch of the PlayStation 5, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart was placed front and center as a game that would embody the promise and potential of the new console hardware and its high-speed SSD storage. Early gameplay footage focused on the […]
Another successful robo-safari for Aloy in Horizon Forbidden West. [credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment / Guerrilla Games ] Aloy, the braided-hair hero of Sony’s 2017 smash Horizon Zero Dawn, is set to return to consoles later this year in the series’ first sequel, and on Thursday, we finally learned how that sequel video game will look. […]
Returnaling, over and over, to remember the things we shot. [credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment / Housemarque ] Returnal is a sci-fi video game about a person constantly reliving the past in order to find a new future. In some ways, it feels like a pointed metaphor for the game’s creators. PlayStation fans are likely familiar […]
All of those cracked helmets behind our hero look identical. There’s a reason. Returnal sees its players die and retry as an explorer of a strange alien planet. [credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment / Housemarque ] Ahead of next week’s launch of the PlayStation 5 exclusive Returnal, Sony has given me an opportunity to show exactly […]
Can’t wait for the “brass knuckles” adapter that turns these into handheld weapons. One month after officially announcing a new generation of PlayStation VR hardware for the PS5, Sony today revealed additional details of the new handheld controllers designed to work with the upcoming unit. As previously announced, the new controllers integrate some of the […]
Enlarge / Fishing for answers. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Last July, Take-Two announced that NBA 2K21 would be the first game to ask $70 for the standard edition on “next-generation” systems (i.e., PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X). Last week, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick doubled down on that decision, saying the market was […]