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.
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- Adoption18
- Hype gap+15
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The channels come from the same syndicators already filling Tubi and Pluto TV. What is new is the placement: a Media tab tile that needs no download, on a console owned by a studio that also decides whose channel sits where.
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Marvel's Wolverine arrives Tuesday from the studio whose Spider-Man games sold 50 million copies, carrying a UK rating that bars children from buying it and a linear design in place of Spider-Man's open city.
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- Evidence72
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+15
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The Supreme Court struck the tariffs down and the refunds are being booked, and all three console makers are now asking American judges to find that a completed sale at an advertised price leaves the buyer nothing to claim.
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- Evidence52
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+14
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Sony's own court filing argues that raising PlayStation prices a second time after the tariffs were struck down proves tariffs were never the cause. A California class action is testing whether buyers see any of the money.
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The 26-minute extended look was captured on a PS5 and sold on fine detail, then went out first through Netflix, where Gizmodo's reviewer said server load and a locked quality setting made it hard to judge.
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The Extended Look pinned blended cutscenes, a focus-meter combat system and a six-star wanted meter to November 19. A good part of the feature list circulating afterwards came from IGN and from a leak account, not Rockstar.
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The PS5 terms have long said "licensed to you, not sold". What changes in 2028 is that refusing those terms will no longer have anywhere to go.
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- Evidence28
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The PlayStation 27-inch monitor's only console-specific hardware duplicates a $30 Sony accessory. The rest is a commodity 1440p panel with a logo on it.
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Circana has US console units down 39% in July and the average price paid up 16%. The platform splits say the price rises are still being absorbed, not refused.
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- Confidence62
Circana puts July US console hardware spending at $282 million, down 29 percent year over year. The mid-life price cut, the industry's oldest demand lever, is no longer on the table.
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- Adoption71
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives46
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