PS5 Logo And One Billion PS4 Games Sold - Sony on CES 2020
Also Sony prepared a conference for CES 2020. Contrary to expectations, we learned little about PlayStation 5, but the company provided some interesting statistics on the current generation of consoles and presented a concept car.
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Conrad Hazi
January 7, 2020
PS5 With Two Hardware Modes for PS4 Game Support
Reliable information about the backward compatibility of PlayStation 5 has surfaced on the web. According to the infor, the console's GPU will have two additional modes of operation, designed specifically for PS4 and PlayStation 4 Pro games.
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Adrian Werner
December 31, 2019
CES 2020: Sony's „Unique Vision of the Future” Might be PS5?
Sony has posted an intriguing message on its website. The company intends to show „a unique vision of the future” at CES 2020, which many people read as an announcement of PlayStation 5's official reveal.
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Jacob Blazewicz
December 30, 2019
Devs Say Making Games on PS5 is Easier Than Ever
Developers say that creating games on PlayStation 5 is very simple and fun. This is what Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios, has said in an interview with Dengeki PlayStation.
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Konrad Serafinski
December 28, 2019
Programmable Buttons on DualShock 4; Here's Sony's Official Attachment
Sony has created an attachment that adds two programmable buttons to the DualShock 4 gamepad. The device works with any model of the controller and will be available for sale in February next year.
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Bart Swiatek
December 17, 2019
PS5 and Xbox Scarlett May Use Samsung's NVMe SSDs
Samsung will probably be responsible for the production of very fast NVMe SSDs, which will be used in the 9th generation consoles - PS5 and Xbox Scarlett. This is suggested by one of the slides from a presentation that was shown at the Samsung SSD Forum 2019 event in Tokyo.
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Bart Swiatek
November 26, 2019
Rumors About Removable PS5 SSDs Were Bogus - Patents Concerned Toys
Reports that PlayStation 5 will have removable SSDs have turned out to be false. That's what TweakTown says, which proved that Sony's patents were related with Toio toy parts.
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Konrad Serafinski
November 23, 2019
Leak: PS5 to be Backwards Compatible With PS, PS2, PS3 and PS4 Discs
We have more and more leaks about backward compatibility of PS5. Recent reports suggest that the console will read almost all discs from previous generations. In other words: our PS5 will be able to run games from PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4.
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Konrad Serafinski
November 21, 2019
German Media Markt Presents its Own Concept of PS5
The German branch of the Media Markt store chain has presented its own idea for the look and feel of PlayStation 5. The designers' concept radically differs from the previously revealed photographs of the developer version of the device.
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Bart Swiatek
November 14, 2019
Removable SSD Like Cartridges? PS5 May Have Some Interesting Patents
Sony has registered a new patent in Brazil called „PlayStation Cartridge”. It is highly likely that the new PlayStation 5 will have replaceable SSD.
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November 12, 2019
PS Now has 1 Million Subscribers, Sony Boasts
Sony has boasted the current number of PlayStation Now subscribers. The game streaming service of the Japanese company is already used by one million people.
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Jacob Blazewicz
October 30, 2019
Sony Applies for PS6, PS7, PS8, PS9 and PS10 Trademarks
Sony has applied for trademarks in Japan for PS6, PS7, PS8, PS9 and PS10. There are of course only placeholders, but it is worth noting that the company only once registered more than one trademark. It was in 2006 with PS4 and PS5.
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Konrad Serafinski
October 29, 2019
PS5 CPU May Run at 3.2 GHz
All indications are that the ninth generation console from Sony - PlayStation 5 - will have a 3.2GHz processor. The editors of Digital Foundry have reached information that would suggest this.
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Bart Swiatek
October 23, 2019
Halloween Sale on PS Store
A special Halloween offer is ongoing on PlayStation Store. Among the dozens of discounted titles you will find Resident Evil 2, Metro Exodus, Dark Souls 3 and Batman Arkham Collection. All at scaringly low prices.
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Konrad Serafinski
October 22, 2019
Event for 16 People, HDR Calibration - New Beta of PS4 Firmware 7.0
Sony has started testing the new version of software for PlayStation 4. The latest firmware brings several useful improvements, including the ability to set up an event for 16 people. The full version will debut in a few weeks.
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Bart Swiatek
September 13, 2019
PlayStation 4 Cloud Saves Have an Utterly Pointless Limit
PlayStation 4 has a limit on the number of saved game state in the cloud. It amounts to 1000 files, which seems kinda pointless with the recent increase in the amount of space available for saves to 100 GB.
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Paul Wozniak
August 18, 2019
100 Million Copies of PS4 Sold; Sony Breaks a Record
Sony has presented its latest financial report. The company has sold a total of 100 million PlayStation 4 units, making the PS4 the fastest console ever to reach this goal.
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Konrad Serafinski
July 30, 2019
Microsoft CEO: It Was Sony Who Offered us Cooperation
Microsoft's CEO commented on an agreement between Microsoft and Sony under which the two companies would enter into cooperation in certain gaming related areas. According to Satya Nadelli, the agreement will be beneficial for both partners.
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Bart Swiatek
July 30, 2019
Update 7.0 Beta For PlayStation 4
New PlayStation 4 update 7.0 is now in beta phase. Among other things, update increases the maximum size of the party from eight to sixteen people and adds an option to adjust the brightness of the screen through the console.
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Milosz Szubert
July 26, 2019
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo Want to Limit Console Production in China
According to the Nikkei Asian Review report, Sony and Microsoft and Nintendo plan to limit their console production in China. All because of the political impasse between the USA and China, which will result in additional duties being imposed on goods from the latter country.
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Konrad Serafinski
July 8, 2019