Hardware & Buying Guides

Set 72306 is 1,911 pieces, $179.99, and hides a Gran Turismo racetrack and an Ape Escape scene inside the console. It goes on sale on 1 October for some buyers and 4 October for everyone else.

The Limited Edition DualSense arrives 19 November alongside GTA 6. The game's "physical" edition ships a week earlier, on 12 November, because there is nothing in the box that needs installing.

At $899 the Pro costs $300 more than a Digital Edition and plays precisely the same games. Here is who genuinely benefits, and who is buying a number rather than an experience.

Hiroki Totoki says the next PlayStation has no fixed date and no fixed price, and points at a memory shortage he expects to run through FY2027. "Otherwise, we cannot survive in this landscape."

A digital law specialist says the disc never made you an owner either. He is right. It is also the weakest argument for not caring, and here is exactly why.

Disc-based PS5 consoles are shipping with a multilingual notice about the January 2028 cutoff printed on the packaging. It is the clearest signal yet that Sony is not reconsidering.

Three separate stories, one date. Disc manufacturing ends January 2028. Analysts put the PS6 at late 2028. Sony says memory stays expensive through FY2027. Put them together and the disc decision reads very differently.

For most people, no — a PS5 plays the PS4 library. But there is one specific reason to own both, and it is worth hundreds of trophies.

A PS5 launched at $499.99. It now costs $649.99, after two increases in under a year. Here is what happened, why it happened, and what it means for when you should buy.

The Edge costs nearly three times a standard DualSense. It solves two genuine problems and introduces one that catches people out.