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Sony's eighth-generation home video game console, succeeding the PS4, available in disc and digital editions plus a higher-powered Pro variant.
Modder Sword has ported PCSX2 to jailbroken PS5s, where the console itself recompiles PS2 code on its Zen 2 chip and renders games at up to 4K. The PS5 has no official Vulkan driver, so the port's graphics run through a modified community layer called ps5vk.
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Sony's PlayStation hardware revenue rose 17% on 11% fewer units sold, according to Circana figures reported by TechSpot. The gain came from price per box, while the number of new consoles reaching US homes, which is what a game's audience is built from, kept falling.
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Hackers released a PS5 exploit last week that works through firmware 13.60, a July release, Gizmodo reported. The outlet wonders whether AI coding assistants are shrinking the gap between Sony's patches and working jailbreaks, though it says it cannot know without the hackers.
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Wi-Fi Alliance documents list two unannounced PlayStation devices on Android 15, with model numbers a step up from the 2023 Portal's CFI-Y1001. That suggests Sony is keeping a streaming handheld in its line, and so far the rumored improvements are all to the screen.
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Sony's new QSSR brings AI upscaling built with AMD to the base PS5, starting with two first-party games, Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yotei. How far it spreads now depends on other studios, and Sony's graphics engineer puts the work at a few days of tuning for a game that already runs PSSR.
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The channels come from the same syndicators already filling Tubi and Pluto TV. What is new is the placement: a Media tab tile that needs no download, on a console owned by a studio that also decides whose channel sits where.
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Marvel's Wolverine arrives Tuesday from the studio whose Spider-Man games sold 50 million copies, carrying a UK rating that bars children from buying it and a linear design in place of Spider-Man's open city.
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The Supreme Court struck the tariffs down and the refunds are being booked, and all three console makers are now asking American judges to find that a completed sale at an advertised price leaves the buyer nothing to claim.
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Sony's own court filing argues that raising PlayStation prices a second time after the tariffs were struck down proves tariffs were never the cause. A California class action is testing whether buyers see any of the money.
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The 26-minute extended look was captured on a PS5 and sold on fine detail, then went out first through Netflix, where Gizmodo's reviewer said server load and a locked quality setting made it hard to judge.
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The Extended Look pinned blended cutscenes, a focus-meter combat system and a six-star wanted meter to November 19. A good part of the feature list circulating afterwards came from IGN and from a leak account, not Rockstar.
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The PS5 terms have long said "licensed to you, not sold". What changes in 2028 is that refusing those terms will no longer have anywhere to go.
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The PlayStation 27-inch monitor's only console-specific hardware duplicates a $30 Sony accessory. The rest is a commodity 1440p panel with a logo on it.
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Circana has US console units down 39% in July and the average price paid up 16%. The platform splits say the price rises are still being absorbed, not refused.
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Circana puts July US console hardware spending at $282 million, down 29 percent year over year. The mid-life price cut, the industry's oldest demand lever, is no longer on the table.
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