Our latest coverage of Sony.
Sony has confirmed their plans to shut down the PlayStation 3, PS Vita, and PSP online stores this summer. The PS3 and PSP online stores will be taken down on July 2 while the PS Vita store will stick around just a little bit longer before it’s permanently shut down on August 27. According to Gamasutra PS3, Vita, and PSP [...]
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The PlayStation 5 has a lot going for it, and everybody seems to want to own or at least take Sony’s next-gen console for a test run since it came out two weeks ago. In fact, Sony says that the PlayStation 5 launch was their biggest console launch to date, surpassing that of the PlayStation 4 which sold 2.1 million [...]
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30 months after Microsoft opened up the Xbox ecosystem to cross platform play, Sony finally decided to follow suit. Initially, Sony was able to maintain its walled-garden approach due to its massive lead in this generation's console market. The massive success of Fortnite changed that. Millions of gamers were frustrated that Sony was standing in the way of PS4, Xbox [...]
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Ark: Survival Evolved on PS4 will not be seeing cross-platform play between Xbox One players, despite cross-platform features having been already developed and ready to go. We have it working internally, but currently Sony won't allow it 🙁 — Jeremy Stieglitz (@arkjeremy) August 18, 2017 Sony has ruled that cross-platform play will not be allowed, on the moral grounds that [...]
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In a recent Corporate Strategy Presentation[PDF] Sony revealed that the Playstation Network has reached 70 million Monthly Active Users (MAU). More importantly, 26.4 million of those are paying members. With an annual subscription price of $60, that's a nice chunk of change for Sony. The PlayStation 4 has been highly successful for Sony thus far with total shipments by the [...]
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