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PlayStation has rolled out PS Plus Essential, PS Plus Premium and PS Plus Extra in the UK and Europe as of today
Read More »PS Plus Premium service launches in UK & Europe
Xbox, PlayStation and Intel expect hardware shortages to continue
Xbox CFO Tim Stuart has said that he expects supply chain issues to continue until at least 2023
Read More »PlayStation 5 supply shortage to continue into next year, says Sony
“I don’t think demand is calming down this year and even if we secure a lot more devices and produce many more units of the PlayStation 5 next year, our supply wouldn’t be able to catch up with demand."
Read More »PlayStation celebrates its ‘best year ever’ with 7.8m PS5s shipped
Playstation has had its best-ever financial year, with Sony reporting they have already shipped 7.8 million PS5 units.
Read More »PS5 April Update brings more storage options but no M.2 SSD support yet
Expanded storage still has no ETA
Read More »Sony is creating a VR headset for the Playstation 5, with dev kits being sent out soon
“Given this was our first foray into virtual reality, it gives us a chance to apply lessons learned. One of the very vivid illustrations of that is that we will be moving to a very easy single-cord setup.”
Read More »The Playstation 5 sold 4.5 million units in just two months
This quarter was the best in Sony’s history for gaming
Read More »The industry should be wary of politicians bearing gifts – even if that’s a retail price PS5
The size of the re-selling issue is unknown, and its duration likely to be short-lived, but the industry still needs to take action itself
Read More »The Nintendo Switch outsold the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in their launch month in the US
Despite seeing the launch of The Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, the best selling console of November 2020 was actually the Nintendo Switch in the United States
Read More »The games industry spent $45M in ad spend in the first two weeks of November
The jump in ad spending coincides with the launch of the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and the data shows that Sony spent significantly more than Microsoft during this period.
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