It’s hard to imagine a company with a greater influence on consumer electronics than Sony. You can trace a direct line from the Walkman -- the first portable media player -- to the smartphone. Today Sony is a massive force in gaming, making the PlayStation and publishing games for it and other platforms. Sony image sensors are in iPhones as well as its own mirrorless cameras. Not to mention the OLED TVs; smartphones; noise-canceling headphones; music, tv, and film publishing; and, yes, robot dogs.
Sony is holding a 35-minute stream on September 24th that will include “reveals and news” from first-party PlayStation studios, third-party developers, and indies. The State of Play kicks off at 2PM PT / 5PM ET / 10PM UK tomorrow, and will also include at least five minutes of Saros gameplay. You can tune in on YouTube or Twitch.
Sony bumped the PS5’s storage from 825GB to 1TB when it introduced the new Slim model. But gaming bargain hunter billbil-kun has info about a revised discless edition spotted in Europe, that would see its SSD drop back to 825, while the disc version remains at 1TB -- is that better than raising the price again?
After debuting during a PlayStation event in June, Hitman developer IO Interactive’s new James Bond game is getting a little more love from Sony.
A new State of Play this Wednesday at 2PM ET will give us 30 minutes of gameplay centered on “Bond’s first mission as an MI6 recruit.”
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Sony’s $50 price hike in the US hasn’t gone into effect yet on PlayStation’s website or at other retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, Target, and GameStop.
Its 80.3 millionth, to be exact, half the lifetime sales of the PS2, the best-selling console of all time, and closing on the 87.4 million PS3 sales. Sony sold 2.5 million consoles over April-June, about the same as last year, but doubled its gaming profit thanks to game sales and subscriptions.
It lowered its forecast for the tariff hit, but that likely didn’t factor in Trump’s new threat of a 100 percent rate on chips.
Sony decided to go the live-action route for its upcoming Spider-Verse spinoff series starring Nic Cage’s Spider-Man Noir, but Deadline reports that the studio is in the early stages of developing an animated Spider-Punk feature co-written by Ajon Singh (Primetime) and Daniel Kaluuya, who will presumably reprise his role as Hobie Brown.
It’s only taking 2.5 percent, but that’ll set Sony back JPY68 billion (around $464 million).
They’re calling it a “strategic business alliance,” focused on “expanding the fan community for IP such as anime and manga.” Sounds like it’ll be as much about Sony’s anime streaming service Crunchyroll as it will be about the two companies’ gaming pedigree.
It’s been years since we saw an entry in Digimon’s Story series, and now it’s returning with Digimon Story Time Stranger on October 3rd, 2025. The game’s description says it tells an “epic story that unravels the mystery of the world’s collapse” as you carry out turn-based battles with a variety of Digimon collected throughout the game.
In addition to better ANC and the return to a folding design, Sony quietly improved access to the battery in its recently-launched WH-1000XM6 wireless headphones.
During a teardown iFixit discovered the battery is now held in place by two screws instead of double-sided tape like Sony used on previous models, making it relatively easy to access and replace if you’re comfortable disassembling a $450 pair of headphones.
0Better sound, better noise cancellation, and some design improvements, but a higher price.
The next generation of Sony’s noise canceling headphones is almost here. Sony has a placeholder YouTube stream counting down to the WH-1000XM6 launch on Thursday at noon ET, which will finally flesh out the real information after some recent leaks.
