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With the PlayStation 5 Pro now priced at $900, a new comparison of AMD desktop chips shows which processor comes closest to matching the console's gaming performance, and which ones beat it outright.
BGR gathered owner complaints about PlayStation 5 Pro add-ons, from cooling fans that won't shut off to media remotes with no backlighting, and found several accessory categories owners regret buying.
Apple TV 4K supports more HDR formats and uses a fraction of the power of a PlayStation 5 for streaming, according to a comparison highlighting why gamers may still want a separate box for movies.
PS5 Pro buyers are recommending Sony's $79 disc drive and DualSense Charging Station as must-have add-ons, while some question whether the $199 DualSense Edge controller earns its premium price.
Sony ranks second worldwide in camera sales behind Canon and holds over 50 percent of the image sensor market, but a Digital Camera World analysis argues the brand still lacks the emotional pull of rivals like Leica or OM System.
Sony's US store is discounting refurbished PlayStation 5 bundles with a second DualSense controller by $40, pushing total prices below new console costs weeks before GTA 6 arrives on November 19.
Amazon has discounted the Sony WH-CH520 wireless on-ear headphones to $38, taking nearly $32 off the regular $69.99 retail price for the 50-hour battery model.
A PS5 jailbreak for firmware 14.10 has been demonstrated—publicly, in video form—by homebrew developer Gezine, just weeks before the confirmed November 19, 2026, release date of GTA 6.
Amazon discounted Sony's WH-CH720N noise-cancelling headphones to $88, down from the original $180 sticker price. The lightweight over-ear model features 35 hours of battery life and multipoint pairing.
Sony WH-CH730N headphones are available now: $99 in the U.K., $179 in the U.S. Tom’s Guide calls them excellent — but says the U.S. price makes them hard to recommend.
A modified PlayStation 5 emulator now runs Bluepoint's Demon's Souls Remake above 60 fps on an RTX 5070, nearing 120 fps when using Nvidia Frame Generation.
Sony Bravia 9 II is live globally — $3,599.99 for the 65-inch model in the US, ₹3,29,990 in India, and £3,499.99 in the UK. It’s the first mass-market TV to use True RGB LED — a mini-LED panel with discrete red, green and blue diodes instead of white LEDs with color filters — and it’s built to challenge OLED on contrast and black levels while smashing brightness records.
Sony's PlayStation Plus October game catalog brings Mafia: The Old Country, Horizon Forbidden West, and classic revival Dino Crisis 2, with the main wave arriving on consoles starting October 20.
Sony has cut off PlayStation Network access for jailbroken PS5 consoles unless they install firmware update 14.10 — released October 1, 2026.
Sony Ult Wear wireless headphones dropped to $130 on Amazon on Wednesday, marking a 48 percent cut on the bass-heavy set featuring active noise cancellation and 30-hour battery life.
Sony WH-CH730N wireless headphones are now available globally — $129.99 in the US, ₹9,990 in India — with no official UK or EU pricing confirmed in the sources.
B&H has cut $500 off the Sony A7 IV, bringing the 33-megapixel full-frame mirrorless camera down to $1,998 from its standard $2,498 retail price.
Sony's new ECM-W5 wireless audio kit lands in mid-November for $399.99, packing 64GB onboard memory per transmitter, 32-bit float backup, and direct hot-shoe camera integration.
A jailbroken Sony PlayStation 5 running native Vulkan drivers can now operate as an 86W local AI machine, serving large language models like Qwen3.8-27B and Llama 3.2 at respectable speeds.
Playground Games has taken the 2026 first-party crown with Forza Horizon 6 driving $579.2 million in revenue, according to new research firm estimates, easily outpacing rivals before heading to PS5.
Sony WH-CH530 launch at $70 with Bluetooth 6.0, LC3, Auracast and 55-hour battery — $10 more than the WH-CH520’s original $59, but $34 is still the going rate for the older model in sales.
Sony has shuttered Overdrive, a short-lived PlayStation 5 pirate platform offering 1,600 games, after sending legal warnings to exploit developers who bypassed the console's security firmware.
Unofficial PlayStation 5 storefront Overdrive has stopped working and vanished from GitHub, halting direct console downloads of major titles as recent system firmware patches close off the Relapse jailbreak exploit.
Nintendo has reaffirmed its commitment to physical media for the Switch 2, clarifying that cartridge releases will stick around even as Sony prepares to phase out discs entirely.
Sony has revealed a Midnight Black digital PS5 priced at 55,000 Yen in Japan, matching roughly $350. But region locks and account rules mean buyers elsewhere cannot simply import one.
Adorama discounted the full-frame Sony A7 III to $1,498 on Tuesday, shaving $500 off the veteran mirrorless body that still packs dual card slots and uncropped 4K capture.
Kazuo Hirai revealed in an interview that he routinely brushed off corporate directives from Sony headquarters while running PlayStation, prior to taking over as chief executive of the entire company.
Sony has introduced an all-black PS5 Digital Edition for 55,000 yen in Japan. The November release requires a local PSN account and arrives alongside an optional matching disc drive.
Jailbroken PlayStation 5 consoles can now run Xbox 360 and original Xbox games through ported emulators like Xenia and XPSEmu, alongside Xbox Cloud Gaming access.
The PlayStation 5 Pro is out of stock on Sony.com and selling for $1,100+ on auction sites — with GameStop listing used units at $1,494 — as GTA 6’s November 19 launch collides with RAMageddon and a 2027 shortage forecast.