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Sony Interactive Entertainment

Sony's gaming division, maker of PlayStation consoles and operator of the PlayStation Store, overseeing PlayStation Studios' game development.

Known aliases

  • PlayStation Studios
  • SIE

Current stories

buildConfirmed3 publishers

Overdrive's PS5 store was down about a day after Sony's reported cease-and-desist

Two GitHub repositories revived the Overdrive PS5 game store within about a day of its reported takedown by Sony. Neither Sony nor the developer has confirmed the notice, TechSpot reported.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 38%
Operator
Operator 27%
Investor
Investor 35%

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption55
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence58
productConfirmed18 publishers

Sony slims its PS5 Pro AI upscaler to run on the base PS5

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.

Perspective Coverage

18 publishers
Builder
Builder 32%
Operator
Operator 53%
Investor
Investor 15%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption12
Hype gap+20
Incentives68
Confidence62
productOne report1 publisher

Kojima Productions shopped PHYSINT for three months before Sony announced the split

PlayStation Studios told Kojima Productions in mid-June that it intended to cancel PHYSINT. Sony's public post came on September 10, after the studio had already found a new publisher in Xbox. The studio says it is profitable.

Publishers:dexerto.com

Reality

Evidence48
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives78
Confidence52
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo ask courts to treat their tariff-era prices as final

The Supreme Court voided the tariffs, and the money is flowing back to the firms that paid them. In three class actions, the console makers argue the customer who absorbed the increase has no claim on it.

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption65
Hype gap+15
Incentives72
Confidence55
investOne report1 publisher

Sony's motion to dismiss argues purchases were licenses, not ownership, and defends its arbitration terms

Four buyers say a $70 download was sold to them as a purchase. Sony's answer is that its terms sat next to the button and its arbitration clause binds, which would leave AB 2426's plain-language rule for some other court to read.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence56
Adoption81
Hype gap+19
Incentives74
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Sony invokes separate arbitration clause to push PlayStation Store license-disclosure suit out of court

Section 14 of the PlayStation Terms of Service sends US disputes to individual arbitration, and Sony is invoking it against plaintiffs who say those same terms are not surfaced clearly enough at checkout to satisfy AB 2426.

Publishers:tomshardware.com

Reality

Evidence71
Adoption32
Hype gap+12
Incentives76
Confidence64