For more than 25 years, Sony’s PlayStation has been synonymous with gaming. It’s given players experiences like God of War, The Last of Us, and Final Fantasy VII alongside technological innovations from CD-ROMs all the way up to 4K, VR, and cloud gaming. There have even been attempts at portable gaming with the PSP and Vita. Across multiple generations the company has been a pioneer, starting with the original PlayStation and continuing with the PS5.
Wario64 spotted that the $79.99 PS5 disc drive is sold out on Amazon and Best Buy (via shipping). I’m seeing that it’s sold out at Target, too.
I’m guessing people are stocking up on the drives because the $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with one. But we also don’t know how many drives the retailers actually had on hand — perhaps it was just a few.
No, not that one — this is the discussion about Sony’s newly-announced PS5 Pro, as the folks at Digital Foundry are breaking down what Mark Cerny & Co. did and did not reveal about the $699.99 disc drive-less console.
Here it is in Sony’s gallery-full of images, including some on the optional vertical stand — and one that shows how it attaches to the also-optional, not-included Blu-ray disc drive.
After Sony revealed the look of the PS5 in 2020, there were some jokes.
Bungie has shared a new content roadmap for Destiny 2. Going forward, expansions will be much smaller and released every six months. The D2 team also plans on streamlining the game’s UI and reward offerings in order to make the notoriously newbie unfriendly game a bit more approachable.
Hopefully the new strategy can right the Destiny 2 ship after layoffs, underwhelming content, and project cancellations rocked the studio.
[www.bungie.net]
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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The sequel to a simple pack-in game is a flawless love letter to both PlayStation’s history and video games in general.
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.
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:
We know the PS5 Pro is real and developers have been getting ready for it for months, but now Dealabs claims to have seen the packaging for the new console. It has created a sketch that shows it’s similar to the PS5 Slim, and this particular PS5 Pro model lacks a disc drive. An announcement is rumored for next month.
If you know anything about the PS5 Pro you can reach me confidentially on the Signal messaging app, where I’m tomwarren.01
Sony is raising PS5 prices in Japan on September 2nd. Both models are going up by 13,000 yen (nearly $90). This is the third PS5 console price hike in Japan since the console’s launch in 2020. The yen has weakened against the dollar in recent years, and Sony blames “fluctuations in the global economic situation” for this latest PS5 increase.
[PlayStation blog (Japan)]
You’ll be able to play this new version of Sony’s narrative / horror game starting October 4th on PS5 and PC. In addition to updated visuals (built using Unreal Engine 5), the game will offer “revised cinematography,” a reworked prologue, and new collectibles, according to a PlayStation blog post.
But note that on PC, you’ll need a PlayStation Network account, like with God of War Ragnarök.
The PlayStation Store listing for Rockstar’s western briefly described an unannounced PC version of the game. The apparent mistake was corrected, but not before Eurogamer noticed — and The Internet Archive grabbed a snapshot.
According to that archived page, the game will get everything from last year’s console updates, plus “increased resolutions and framerates, multiple displays, and other accessories, plus spatial surround sound.”
The infamous horror game collaboration between Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro drummed up enormous hype before the project was cancelled amid game developer Konami’s fallout with Kojima.
PS4 owners who managed to install P.T. before it was removed in 2015 can still enjoy playing the demo while we mourn what could have been the best Silent Hill game released since 2001.
The game is finally being released for Sony consoles on August 29th. It’s already available on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and mobile.
There were reportedly only 150 pairs made and distributed in 2006 / 2009, but NiceKicks and SneakerNews report the PlayStation x Nike Air Force 1 Low will be re-released next year, according to unnamed sources.
Nike revisited the concept with a 2018 edition and a Paul George collaboration, but the originals are by far the best and have gone for as much as $6,000 on StockX,
Several official PlayStation accounts have come up with a helpful metric to determine the size of the PS5 and the PS5 slim: food. Latin America used arepas, torrijas for Spain, and Greggs sausage rolls for the UK. After a lengthy and spirited discussion involving everything from corndogs to pizza rolls, we at The Verge are unable to come up with an American equivalent. What do you suggest?
