The Russian edition of Izvestia found out that the cost of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X has fallen in Russian retail. The first one became possible to purchase in the range of 48-56 thousand rubles ($523-610 at the official exchange rate), and the second one at all for 40 thousand rubles ($ 436 at the official exchange rate).

Sony’s gaming division shared its results for the third fiscal quarter (ended December 31). Despite generally good performance, sales of games and hardware have fallen. The company is unable to cope with the demand for the PS5, which now lags behind the PS4 in terms of the number of devices sold over the same period.The main thing from the financial report

Players will have to pay extra if they want to play the titles already purchased for PS4 on PS5. This was announced by Sony against the background of the Horizon Forbidden West scandal. Horizon Forbidden West

Sony has prepared a report for the first fiscal quarter of 2021. In April-June, the company’s gaming direction earned over $5.5 billion. This was achieved largely thanks to the PlayStation 5 — the console stopped being sold at a loss.

Sony‘s gaming division is not ready to share a financial report yet, but it has already brought data on PlayStation 5 sales. The console sold 10 million units worldwide by July 18 and became Sony’s fastest-selling console.

The official release of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, a new PlayStation 5 exclusive, took place today. The project received rave reviews from critics, and the average score on Metacritic was 89/100 based on almost 100 reviews. Rift Apart is called perhaps the most beautiful game for today and is praised for using new technologies, but at the same time criticized for outdated gameplay in places.

Sony has announced plans to significantly expand the audience of its online and mobile services. To do this, the Japanese company will allocate over $18 billion, which will be used for strategic investments. They plan to develop gaming services, among other things.According to Reuters, Sony will allocate 2 trillion rubles (about $18.39 billion) for these purposes within three years.

Today, the official release of the action bagel Returnal took place – a new big PlayStation 5 exclusive. The average score on Metacritic was 86/100. Most of all, the game is praised for its shooter mechanics, addictive gameplay and extensive use of new DualSense features. However, opinions about the plot and sometimes too random races were divided.

In the wake of the record-breaking launch of the PlayStation 5, Sony has decided to increase the amount of annual bonuses for its Japanese employees. This time they will be able to count on a bonus equal to the salary for seven months.This was reported by GameRant with reference to the Japanese broadcaster NHK.

Yesterday it became known that Days Gone will be the next PlayStation exclusive to appear on PC. Obviously, Sony wants to expand its audience in this way. However, there were other factors that influenced the company’s decision to port its games to another platform.This was stated in an interview with GQ by Jim Ryan, head of Sony Interactive Entertainment.

Sony has shared the results of the third fiscal quarter (ended December 31). During the reporting period, the revenue of the company’s gaming division exceeded $8 billion, and PlayStation 5 sales amounted to 4.5 million copies.Key data

The launch of the PlayStation 5 in Japan turned out to be a record low, and local players were dissatisfied with the company’s increased attention to the western market. However, Platinum Games studio is confident that Sony’s new strategy will not affect the attitude of Japanese developers to the platform in any way.Atsushi Inaba, the head of Platinum Games, spoke about this in an interview with Video Games Chronicle.

Sony announced that the launch of PlayStation 5 sales turned out to be the most successful — both in the history of the brand itself and the entire console industry.

PlayStation suffered heavy losses in the Japanese market. For the whole of 2020, less than a million Sony consoles were sold in the country. The last time this happened was in 1994 — during the launch of the PS1.

Shares of Sony and Nintendo began to grow rapidly and reached record levels for more than 10 years. Experts attribute the increased interest of investors to the second wave of coronavirus and the upcoming holidays.According to Bloomberg, today Nintendo shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose by 6.6% and reached a value of 67,850 ($658) for each paper.

On paper, the Xbox Series X is more powerful than the PlayStation 5. However, the first tests show that the multiplatform now works better and more stable on the Sony console. The reasons are banal. First: game developers had less time to optimize games for a Microsoft device. Second: less convenient tools and weaker documentation for it. This was told by The Verge, after talking with various teams that were preparing new releases for the latest…

In some countries, the start of sales of the new PlayStation began a week ago, but it reached Russia today. But it’s still not easy to buy a console – no major retailer has it available.

The new generation consoles have just gone on sale, but Newzoo has already prepared a report on the most popular games on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in the USA. Sony’s audience traditionally prefers exclusives, while Microsoft users prefer subscription games and multiplatform.Note: The MAU data only counts players from the USA and is taken as of November 15.

The PlayStation 5 was officially launched today, but only in some regions. Russia is not among them. Sales of the new generation console in our country and in the rest of the world will start in a week.