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MIDiA’s five games trends to watch in 2025

Rhys Elliott

19 Dec 2024

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The year 2024 has been eventful for the games market to say the least. Call of Duty came to Game Pass, Sony released its PS5 Pro console, live-service games faced a reckoning, and gaming has solidified its space at the heart of entertainment.

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Move over, console wars – the battle for AAA portable gaming is coming

Rhys Elliott

25 Nov 2024

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Seemingly every manufacturer in the games space is working on a portable machine. Now, Bloomberg sources claim that Sony has started early work on a portable that plays PS5 games. Microsoft’s head of gaming, Phil Spencer, has already confirmed that Xbox is working on its own portable (also per Blo...

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Horizon's price changes show why consoles are pushing for no discs

Rhys Elliott

10 Oct 2024

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PlayStation recently launched a remaster of 2017’s Horizon Zero Dawn forPS5 and PC. As part of a specialpromotion from Sony, anyone who already owns the original Horizon Zero Dawn can paya $10 upgrade fee to access the remaster.

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Sony's $700 PS5 Pro is for superfans – it won’t really grow PlayStation’s playerbase

Rhys Elliott

10 Sep 2024

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Sony just announced its worst-kept secret, the PS5 Pro. It's launching for $700 in November 2024, four years after the debut of the original PS5. Compared to the original, PS5 Pro will offer better visuals and performance: Larger GPU with more speed : Sony says the PS5 Pro’s GPU will render 45% f...

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PlayStation shifts lanes, letting its family-friendly ambitions known

Rhys Elliott

6 Jun 2024

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Sony’s second State of Play marketing event of 2024 has increased anticipation for the company’s upcoming game releases. The roughly 30-minute presentation advertised 14 games consumers can look forward to in 2024 and 2025.

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PlayStation’s financial results: The good, the bad, and the hopeful

Rhys Elliott

16 May 2024

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Sony released its earnings for the 12 months ending March 31, 2024 (FY2023). As always, gaming was Sony’s biggest vertical and the heart of its cross-media strategy . Revenues grew +17% in FY2023 to $28.

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Helldivers 2's woes show publishers should nudge, not push, gamers

Rhys Elliott

10 May 2024

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Helldivers 2 is one of the most popular games of the year so far and has been PlayStation’s biggest PC and live-service success story to date. But PlayStation drew the ire of the game’s PC fanbase by announcing it would force Steam players to link their account to a PlayStation Network (PSN) acc...

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Steam is the unlikely winner of the modern console wars – for now

Rhys Elliott

4 Apr 2024

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Thanks to console manufacturers and third-party publishers moving content to Steam, Valve now boasts one of the most diverse AAA offerings on the market, benefitting from new strategies adopted by Xbox and PlayStation.

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What PlayStation 5 Tells Us About Sony's Trajectory

Karol Severin

12 Jun 2020

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PlayStation put on an impressive showcase of 20+ upcoming titles, culminating in presenting the design of its new console, PlayStation 5, due to launch later this year. Though no launch date, price or any other details were announced, Sony’s presentation communicated a lot about its strategy.

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Can PlayStation 5 Compete Successfully Amid the Coming Games-Streaming Disruption?

Karol Severin

2 May 2019

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As Mark Cerny, the lead system architect of PlayStation, implied in an exclusive interview with Wired , PS5 is coming likely in fall 2020 – and it is not just meant to be a mere upgrade of the PS4. The key question remains, however, whether even a big upgrade to the hardware and gaming experience ...

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