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While it can be nice to have some feedback when doing things with your PlayStation 5, one little sound can be irritating to some folks: the beep that plays every time you turn your console off and on. Luckily, if you'd like to reduce the volume of this beep, or even turn it off altogether, Sony has added the ability for you to do that. Below, we'll tell you how to access the settings to make it happen. Digital Trends How to mute the PS5 beep sound When you're ready to mute the beep…

“The Pulse Elite is the best PS5 headset you can buy --by default.” Pros Discrete microphone Innovative charging mount Great sound quality Long battery life Dual connectivity Cons Loose fit Distortion at high volumes Portal integration is lacking…

Sony has lowered its PlayStation 5 sales forecast for fiscal 2023 significantly and now expects to sell 21 million units, down from a previous forecast of 25 million. That's despite posting record quarterly revenue and selling 8.2 million PS5s over the holiday season. So far this fiscal year, Sony has sold 16.4 million consoles, bringing its total to 54.8 million overall. (The company sold 19.1 million PS5s in fiscal 2022.)Sony announced in December that it had sold 50 million PS5 units over three years, as of December 9,…

Shift Up, PlayStation / Shift Up, PlayStation More details were shared about the world of PlayStation’s upcoming character action game Stellar Blade during Sony’s latest State of Play. We got a good look at more features in the title, including its mission and camping system. We finally got a release date too: Stellar Blade will launch on April 26 for PS5. Stellar Blade takes place on a postapocalyptic Earth where an enemy, called the Nativa, pushed humans to escape to an off-world colony. Players control Eve, who is…

“For more months than I care to remember, we kept thanking our community for their patience while working through these issues,” Jim Ryan, the president and CEO of Sony, says. “But now PS5 supply is well-stocked and we are seeing that pent up demand finally being met.”Still, the PlayStation 5 sales have dominated this generation (excluding the Nintendo Switch, like the FTC says you should), handily outpacing both Xbox Series consoles since they all launched in November 2020. “For more months than I care to remember, we…

PlayStation’s accessibility answer The PS5 Access Controller has finally gotten a release date. The circular controller launches on December 6, 2023. Pre-orders will become available for the controller starting on July 21. Image by Sony PS5’s New Access Controller to Launch on December 6 The controller is going for a price of $89.99 and features 8 onboard buttons for its disc-shaped design. The control stick, which can be replaced with a joystick design, sits on the side. The controller allows for up to 30 control…

June was a big month on the gaming calendar, with three high-profile releases covering a diverse range of genres. Sony has published the top downloads in June for PS5 and PS4, revealing that Diablo IV has taken top spot on both consoles in the US and Canada. Final Fantasy 16 came in second place for the region in the PS5 charts, followed by Street Fighter 6 in third place.In Europe, Diablo IV was also the most-downloaded game on PS5, followed by Final Fantasy 16 and F1 2023. Surprisingly, Street Fighter 6…

Ahead of the May 2023 PlayStation Showcase, I wrote that the presentation needed to “elicit confidence in Sony’s future with live service.” Well, multiplayer-focused live service games did end up being a big part of the show, but I can’t say I’m that confident in them yet. Between neat looks at single-player exclusives like Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 and Synapse, Sony revealed four live-service games that it’s publishing. Those games are Haven Studios’ Fairgame$, Arrowhead Studios’ Helldivers 2, Bungie’s Marathon,…

PlayStation Plus Premium will give players access to a library of classic PlayStation, PS2, and PS3 titles starting this June, which is exciting as the PS5 only is backward compatible with the PS4 currently. Unfortunately, it comes with a caveat: All PS3 games must be streamed from the cloud and can't be played natively on the console.We're over 15 years removed from the PS3's launch, and there's still no good way to play many classic PS3 titles like Infamous or Metal Gear Solid 4 on modern platforms. Sony is content…

The top-downloaded PlayStation games for the month of April 2023 have been revealed. Topping the PS5 download charts across the US/Canada and the EU last month was Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, which launched toward the end of April.Taking the second spot on the list was Dead Island 2, a zombie game that was in development for the better part of a decade. Notably, Minecraft Legends launched in mid-April but failed to crack the top 10 across PS5 or PS4, despite the original Minecraft consistently ranking among…