Portable CD players are back, but with better sound, Bluetooth, and DACs. FiiO and Shanling are leading the charge in 2025's ...

Where Sony had the killer edge is that its Playstation 3 (PS3) computer games console comes pre-fitted with a Blu-ray player. So as Sony has sold 10.5 million PS3 consoles since it was launched in ...

These portable players used to be readily available ten to twenty years ago and sold for very cheap prices when the compact disc was king. But in 2025, it’s incredibly difficult to find a new ...

Players are now hoping that their pricey disc drives will be compatible with the PS6 or they’ll find themselves having to fork out extra cash for what they consider an essential accessory.

Shawn Layden does not believe Sony would go through with a digital-only PlayStation 6. He believes it would be a difficult challenge to market and push a PS6 with no disc drive.

He left Sony in 2019 and is now a strategy advisor at Tencent Games. Speaking with Kiwi Talkz, the former chairman was asked if the PS6 could actually arrive without a disc drive.

The company released Japan’s first-ever magnetic tape record in 1950. In 1958, the company changed its name to Sony Corporation. In the 1960s, Sony established its business in the United States.

Sony acquired Anime powerhouse Crunchyroll in 2021, and it acquired American video game company Bungie in 2022 for $3.6 billion. In addition to Sony Interactive Entertainment, which makes the ...

The idea that CD audio was inherently flawed and could be better goes back to roughly the mid-1990s. In 1993, MTV's "Week in Rock" aired a segment about how some musicians and pundits were arguing ...

Let's take a look at how they fared and why. Quick caveat — though it might seem like a good pick for this topic, we're not including Super Audio CD, as Sony never discontinued it.

Toshi Aoki, Senio Principle Product Manager for Sony, has revealed that the decision not to include a disc drive in the PS5 Pro is about ‘giving players choices.’ The PS5 Pro is set to launch ...