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Unlike two of its , Sony waited until April to unveil its latest soundbars rather than debut them at CES in January. And even then, the in the company’s 2025 lineup remain untouched. Instead, the : a 3.1.2-channel Dolby Atmos soundbar that comes with a wireless subwoofer and a modest set of features. However, the caveats here are real headscratchers, …

Jada Jones/ZDNET In the past few years, Bose, Sony, Sonos, and Beats have released premium headphones to compete with each other and Apple’s AirPods Max.  I’ve worn all of the AirPods Max’s top competitors, and they each excel in different categories. But for an older dog in this fight, the AirPods Max are still kicking. Since their 2020 release (and …

Sony makes some of the best TVs on the market, but its most exciting yet isn’t bound for debut until 2026 with a model called the Sony Bravia 10. This next-generation TV leverages RGB LEDs to deliver exciting performance enhancements over its rivals. It will purportedly take advantage of MediaTek’s MT9131 chip alongside Sony’s XR Backlight Master Drive algorithm to …

As consumers have begun to shift away from physical media, the way gamers play games has shifted significantly in a rather short amount of time. The perfect example of this shift is Xbox, which has begun to bring some of its marquee first-party franchises, like Gears of War and Forza Horizon, to PS5 to continue to grow its audience. Game …

In what comes as no surprise, a viral tweet misrepresented a Sony statement to suggest that PlayStation is going multiplatform. The confusion stems from an earnings call held yesterday, where the company talked about “moving away from a hardware-centric business.” Without the full quote, this was widely interpreted as Sony admitting that PlayStation is following Microsoft’s footsteps. Not quite. Is …

A big headline from Sony’s recent earnings call was the news that Bungie was going to start losing some of its independence as it gets folded more fully into the PlayStation studios network. What that means for the future of Destiny 2 is unclear and was not discussed, but Bungie’s other multiplayer game, Marathon, did come up. Marathon’s rollout has …

Earlier today, Sony announced the quarterly financial results for Q1 2025, where we learned that the PlayStation 5 console had shipped 80.3 million units as of the end of June. The whole Game and Network Services (G&NS) segment registered an 8% year-on-year increase in sales of 936.5 billion yen ($6.35 billion), primarily due to the rise in third-party software sales, …

Sony WH-1000XM6 specs Color options Black, Blue, Silver Audio SBC, AAC, LDAC, LC3Sony DSEE, 360 Audio Noise cancelation ANC, Transparency Connectivity Bluetooth 5.3, multi-device, Fast Pair, Swift Pair Battery life Up to 30 hours Ingress protection No IP rating You may have noticed that the Sony WH-1000XM6 set features a new-ish audio codec — LC3. It was included with Bluetooth …

Sony Xperia phones make up just a tiny fraction of the overall smartphone market, and the brand isn’t exactly exuding confidence in its future. Sony, however, says that Xperia is a “very important” part of its business and that it will continue to “nuture” it. During Sony’s latest financial results presentation this week, Sony CFO Lin Tao addressed the state …

It sounds like in the long term Sony is eventually moving away from a hardware centric business model according to the company’s senior vice president. We have already had LEGO Horizon Adventures grace the Nintendo Switch and by the sounds of it more games could eventually come to the Nintendo Switch 2 and future Nintendo platforms. Sony has been releasing …