Our latest coverage of Sony. 165rj
Sony has halted production of its PSVR 2 virtual reality headsets due to underwhelming sales over the past few months, likely due to the release of the Meta Quest 3 in October 2023. According to tech market research firm Counterpoint, PSVR 2 sales ed for just 15% of all VR headset sales in Q4 2024 with the majority of the [...]
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Sony Interactive Entertainment and NCSoft have entered into a strategic partnership to explore “global collaboration opportunities” across various fields of business. There aren’t any solid plans at the moment, but there’s speculation that Sony might be diving headfirst into the mobile gaming market. The partnership agreement might also have something to do with Microsoft’s recently completed acquisition of Activision Blizzard [...]
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Sony’s ambitious plan to release a dozen new live service titles by the end of its 2025 fiscal year has gone up in smoke, or at least part of it. During the company’s latest earnings call, Sony President Hiroki Totoki revealed that they’ve delayed six of the twelve live service games due to quality concerns after a “rigorous portfolio review [...]
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Late last month, Sony’s systems were supposedly breached by a new hacker group who threatened to leak the compromised data after the company stubbornly refused to give in to their demands. To be fair, the data being held for ransom seemed like they were just random files stolen off of a dead Japanese FTP server and didn’t look as if [...]
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Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Jim Ryan has announced that he’ll be stepping down from his role as CEO of Sony’s video game arm in March 2024. He has been with Sony for 28 years and served as the company’s President and CEO for the last five years. “I have announced my retirement after nearly 30 years at Sony Interactive Entertainment,” Ryan [...]
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Sony’s systems, and PlayStation’s by extension, has allegedly been breached by a new hacker group. It’s unclear what information the hackers managed to steal but they’re threatening to sell the data on a ransomware website after Sony reportedly refused to give in to their demands. “We have successfully compromised all of Sony systems,” the hacker group claimed. “We won’t ransom [...]
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It’s no secret that Sony has been completely against Microsoft’s acquisitions of Activision Blizzard since the merger was first announced last year, and with good reason. The $69 billion deal between the two video game industry giants has sparked concerns over possibly antitrust violations and monopoly and is also being contested by several regulatory bodies including the U.S. Federal Trade [...]
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Microsoft is really working to assure everyone that they won’t be hogging Call of Duty and other Activision Blizzard titles, at least for the next decade anyway. After g a 10-year licensing deal with Nintendo, the company has also partnered with NVIDIA to bring the popular shooter franchise to the latter’s cloud gaming service, GeForce NOW. “Microsoft and NVIDIA announced [...]
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Last week, Microsoft revealed that it was willing to enter into a 10-year licensing agreement with Sony to allow the latter continued access to the Call of Duty franchise on the PlayStation should the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard merger push through. Xbox head honcho Phil Spencer followed up that announcement with a tweet that Microsoft has made similar arrangements with Nintendo to [...]
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Over the past few months, the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard merger has come under intense scrutiny from various government agencies across the world for its potential effect on the video game market, especially since Sony might end up losing access to Activision Blizzard titles on the PlayStation. Sony has also argued that there won’t be anything to stop Microsoft from making games [...]
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