Tag: PlayStation 5
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The Unpatchable Breach: PS5 BootROM Keys Leak Ignites Jailbreak Scene
At the very end of 2025, a leak surfaced within PlayStation 5 enthusiast communities that sounds like a worst-case scenario for Sony. According to members of the console hacking scene and several media outlets, a dataset containing so-called BootROM, or ROM, keys for the console has appeared in the public domain. These are the lowest-level…
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PS5 Hits 80 Million: Sony’s Gaming Division Soars on Strong Software Sales
Sony has released its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, revealing that PlayStation 5 sales reached 2.5 million units worldwide during the period—an increase of 100,000 units compared with the same quarter last year. This milestone pushes the console’s cumulative global shipments past 80 million units, now totaling 80.3 million. Bolstered…
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Sony has sold a total of 38.4 million PlayStation 5 units
As stated earlier, resolving the supply chain challenges will boost PlayStation 5 sales. Sony’s earnings report for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2022, released recently, revealed that PlayStation 5 sold over 6.3 million units in the previous quarter, compared to a mere 2 million units in the same quarter last year. This demonstrates that…
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GhostWire: Tokyo will land on Xbox Series X/S on April 12th and join the Xbox Game Pass
Crafted by Tango Gameworks, “GhostWire: Tokyo” was released last year, with both PC and PlayStation 5 editions. Due to Sony and Microsoft’s pre-acquisition agreement with Bethesda, the PC version of “GhostWire: Tokyo” launched later than its PlayStation 5 counterpart. Recently, Bethesda and Tango Gameworks announced that “GhostWire: Tokyo” will arrive on Xbox Series X/S on…
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Sony becomes AMD’s largest customer, PlayStation 5 brings huge revenue to AMD
Last year, Sony became AMD’s largest customer, accounting for 16% of the latter’s revenue, and it’s clear that a significant portion of this revenue is from the strong sales of the PlayStation 5. According to some semiconductor industry analysts, if AMD excludes the revenue increase from the acquisition of Xilinx, Sony’s business will account for…
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The Xbox console will not follow the PS5 price increase
Sony announced earlier that it will increase the price of its PS5 game console to cope with economic and logistic pressures. The increase varies in different regions, with a maximum of almost 20% or even higher. After the news came out, many players wondered whether Sony’s rival Microsoft would make the same move. Now it…
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Sony increases in the retail price of PlayStation 5 in various countries and regions
Sony announced that it will increase the retail price of PlayStation 5 in various countries and regions, and the new retail price will be effective immediately. It involves Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America, including Canada in North America, while Japan will take effect on September 15, 2022, but the United…
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PlayStation 5 sales exceeded 20 million units
Sony announced its full-year fiscal 2021 financial results last month, showing that due to the impact of supply chain shortages, PlayStation 5 sales fell to varying degrees compared with the same period last year and compared to Sony’s previous forecast for fiscal 2021. As of March 31, 2022, PlayStation 5 shipments reached 19.3 million units,…
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Microsoft Xbox Series X/S 2022Q1 sales beat PS5
Microsoft released the Xbox Series X/S around the same time as the Sony PlayStation 5. However, for most of the time after the launch, the PlayStation 5 has suppressed the Xbox Series X/S, and the monthly, quarterly and annual sales around the world have not given opponents any chance. This situation did not improve until…
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Sony produces 1 million PS4s this year to resolve PS5 supply shortages
Sony’s PlayStation 5 next-generation game console released in 2020 is very popular in the game console market, however, due to the use of AMD’s custom SoC, this game console has always had a shortage of supply, resulting in a shortage in the market, and it is very difficult for players to buy it. According to…
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The procurement and logistics of PlayStation 5 parts are becoming more and more difficult
A year ago, with the release of Sony PlayStation 5 and Microsoft Xbox Series X/S, the era of next-generation game consoles was opened. Probably thanks to the coronavirus epidemic, more home life has made the sales of this generation of game consoles very prosperous. Coupled with the production capacity problems faced by the semiconductor industry,…
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The cumulative sales of PlayStation 5 in the UK exceeded 1 million units
According to GamesIndustry reports, 39 weeks after the PlayStation 5 console was launched in the UK, sales have exceeded 1 million units. This data is three weeks faster than the previous generation of PlayStation 4, making PlayStation 5 the fastest-selling PlayStation console in UK history. Until July of this year, PlayStation 4 still has a…
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PlayStation 5 custom SoC high-definition: RDNA 2 architecture GPU is in the middle of the chip
Some time ago, the famous infrared photographer Fritzchens Fritz brought high-resolution photos of AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, showing its internal structure, allowing people to have a deeper understanding of this APU. Recently, he shared a new subject: the SoC of the PlayStation 5 game console. The PlayStation 5 game console uses AMD’s custom SoC, code-named…
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PlayStation 5 sold 10 million units worldwide
Sony announced on its blog that as of July 18, the PlayStation 5 game console has sold 10 million units worldwide since its release on November 12, 2020. Sony said that PlayStation 5 is the fastest-selling game console in the company’s history, unlocking the achievement of selling 10 million units in the shortest time. In…
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Sony PlayStation 5 will use a new version of custom SoC with TSMC 6nm process
Players who have a certain understanding of the PlayStation series of game consoles will know that Sony will generally start to redesign the game console sometime after the next-generation game console is released. CPUs and GPUs manufactured by new processes will be used to reduce costs and power consumption. The currently popular PlayStation 5 is…