Sony has quietly started increasing the price of its DualSense PS5 controllers by $5 at many retailers in the US. Wario64 first spotted the price increases at Best Buy, before noticing the DualSense has gone up at Target, GameStop, and Sony’s own PlayStation store. It comes after recent price increases for the PS5 console in Japan, but there are no signs console prices will increase in the US.
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Astro Bot just launched on the PS5 with a cute little countdown party inside Astro’s Playroom. If you’re going to watch the clip below, please adjust your volume accordingly because, well, you’ll see.
On the opposite end of its mass market noise-canceling headphones, Sony still routinely releases models designed to accurately reflect creative intent in studio environments. The new $249.99 MDR-M1 has an “exclusively developed driver unit that achieves ultra-wideband playback of 5Hz – 80kHz,” a detachable cable, easily replaceable ear cushions, and a “well-balanced and uncolored frequency response.”
The WH-1000XM5, by comparison, are quite colored.
The new 4K Bravia Projector 9 debuts with several upgrades including 3,400 lumens of brightness and Sony’s “XR Processing technology” to deliver deeper blacks and more accurate colors.
For those not willing to spend $31,999.99 on a home theater upgrade, Sony has also announced the Bravia Projector 8 delivering 2,700 lumens of brightness and a slightly cheaper $15,999.99 price tag.
Now that even Sony has admitted its new hero shooter was an failure, you might be wondering: are there just too many of those games?
Well, Valve’s Deadlock just peaked at 170K concurrent players this weekend and is sitting at nearly 120K right now.
Spectre Divide launched an hour ago and already has 30,000 concurrents. It feels fresh, despite its familiar underpinnings:
