Le jailbreak de la PS5 franchit une nouvelle étape avec l'émulation de jeux PS3. De quoi rapprocher la console de Sony d’un rêve de longue date : celui d’une machine capable de lancer presque tous les jeux PlayStation.

"Video game console sales in the U.S. have cratered," reports Tom's Hardware, with sales through August far below where they'd been in 2025: Mat Piscatella, the video game industry advisor at research firm Circana, shared the numbers on his Bluesky account — PlayStation 5 sales have dropped by 25%, putting it at its lowest point since 2013, when gamers held off buying PlayStation consoles in anticipation of the arrival of the PS4, while Xbox's retail figures have cratered by 33% YTD, putting its sales numbers at an all-time low since its launch almost 25 years ago. Piscatella said price sensitivity is becoming a real problem among gamers, especially as the chip shortage has pushed console manufacturers to raise prices. Microsoft has raised the price of the Xbox three times in the past two years, with the 512GB versions jumping by $100 and 1TB models becoming $150 more expensive. Worse, the company has killed off the 2TB model. This brought the Xbox Series S to $499.99 (512GB) and $599.99 (1TB), while the Xbox Series X now costs $749.99 for the Digital Edition, and the disc version costs $50 more at $799.99. PlayStation fans haven't escaped these price hikes, as Sony raised prices for that console by $100 to $150. The base Digital Edition PS5 now costs $599.99, while the version with an optical drive is priced at $649.99. If you want the PS5 Pro, you'll have to shell out $899.99, while those who want to stream games from their console via the PlayStation Portal must now pay $249.99 — $50 higher than its $199.99 launch price. Even used consoles didn't escape inflation, with Sony bumping the price of refurbished PS5 Slim consoles by $100, bringing them to $399. "Still, Piscatella says the U.S. hardware market has never been more precarious since the early 1980s."

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La première PlayStation revient en pièces détachées : 1 911 pièces Lego à monter soi-même. Le set Lego est disponible dès ce jeudi 1ᵉʳ octobre à 159,99 €, avec une figurine Astro Bot offerte pour son lancement. Voici où le commander et comment profiter du cadeau.

Un nouveau jailbreak permet de contourner certaines protections des PS5, y compris Slim et Pro, sous des versions récentes du système. Cette fois, la manipulation devient beaucoup plus simple et rapide, de quoi poser un sérieux problème à Sony.

Le feuilleton continue du côté de Kojima Productions et de la folle histoire de Physint, rejeté par les uns, accueilli à bras ouverts par les autres. Le budget de 400 millions de dollars avancé pour le prochain jeu de Hideo Kojima chez Xbox est contesté par deux journalistes : selon leurs sources, Microsoft paie nettement moins, et ce montant correspondrait plutôt à ce que Sony aurait pu débourser.

Pour la toute première fois de son histoire, Electronic Arts dégaine une déclinaison « Lite » téléchargeable gratuitement pour sa franchise phare EA Sports FC. Une version bridée qui sert surtout de vitrine au jeu complet et à ses modes payants.

Après le départ prématuré de Jason Momoa pour cause de « différends créatifs », Sony a rapidement retrouvé sa dose de stéroïdes. L'infatigable colosse de Reacher, Alan Ritchson, est en discussions très avancées pour porter l'adaptation cinématographique du jeu vidéo culte Helldivers.

[Deal du jour] Après avoir augmenté le prix sur les abonnements PlayStation Plus il y a quelques mois, les abonnements Essential, Extra et Premium profitent d'une baisse de prix temporaire.

"In April this year, we saw Andy Nguyen turning the PS5 into a Linux-powered gaming PC," writes the blog It's FOSS. It ran Steam games and emulators using the PS5's on-board hardware. But this week Andy announced he's "stopping all my work on PS5 Linux" and "stepping away from the PS5 scene." stopping work on porting the project to the PS5 Pro, which would've shipped sometime in 2027. Andy Nguyen: After pouring my heart and months of my life into it, including plans to finish PS5 Pro support and release in 2027, it's all down the sink. The scene used to be a group of highly talented researchers, but now it is just a bunch of noobs using LLMs and writing hacks they don't even understand. Slop kiddies found the only hypervisor bug left, which I had also found a while ago, and decided to report to Sony. I asked them to at least wait for GTA 6 to come out so that people would have the opportunity to legally purchase the game and also enjoy Linux. They agreed to wait, but not a day passed and they decided to waste it instead. Or, as It's FOSS tells it: Running Linux on a PlayStation console is possible because the PS5 Linux project was able to find a way past the hypervisor using exploits Sony had already patched, covering firmware 3.00 through 7.61. .. [The bug's discoverer writes it was] found with what he calls his "trusty ai clanker machine" and no help from anyone else. He had even agreed to Andy's request to not disclose the findings. Unexpectedly, a third person, still unnamed, found the same bug using AI a few hours later. Anticipating that there would be more people finding the same bug, [he] decided to post the flaw on HackerOne. The project's GitHub page and all the related repositories are still there. Nothing has been archived as of today, and if you wanted to, you could start contributing to the PS5 Linux project by taking over any pending work or cooking up new improvements... The PS5 Pro support Andy was building never reached the repository, so you would have to start from scratch... While Andy's departure is a blow to the plan for supporting newer PS5 firmware and the PS5 Pro, other contributors have shown that they can deliver work on the loader without him, and I am hopeful more will follow.

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Le compte X de la marque PlayStation a été pris en flagrant délit d'une erreur monumentale, liée à Final Fantasy VII Revelation. Le community manager a confondu deux personnages du jeu pourtant culte, et très faciles à dissocier.

Les PS5 coûtent plus cher, certains stocks se tendent et GTA 6 arrive le 19 novembre. Entre la Slim numérique, le modèle avec lecteur et une Pro à 900 € : voici où mettre votre argent -- et ce que chaque console change vraiment.

Quelques jours après l’annonce surprise de l’abandon de Physint, de nouvelles informations permettent de comprendre pourquoi PlayStation a finalement décidé de se retirer du projet d’Hideo Kojima. Budget jugé trop important, rentabilité incertaine et retards dans le développement : le jeu aurait fini par devenir trop risqué pour Sony.

Sony reportedly pulled PlayStation funding from Hideo Kojima's upcoming espionage game Physint over concerns about its ballooning budget, missed deadlines, profitability, and the fact that it would not remain permanently exclusive to PlayStation. Kojima Productions has since struck a deal with Xbox, which plans to publish the game on both Xbox and PC. It's also secured film and television rights. Bloomberg reports: The new game, Physint, hasn't yet been shown publicly but excited fans when it was announced two years ago with its promise of returning to the "espionage action" genre Kojima pioneered with Metal Gear Solid, the series that propelled him to industry stardom. Kojima surprised fans this week when he announced he would be publishing Physint with PlayStation's biggest rival, Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox. On Wednesday night, Kojima wrote on social media that over the summer his company had "unexpectedly received notice" that PlayStation was pulling out of funding the game. "Physint is an important project both to me personally and to Kojima Productions," he wrote. "Determined to keep the project alive, we have spent the last three months searching tirelessly for a new partner." PlayStation also addressed the split on social media, saying it had made the "difficult decision to step away." Microsoft said it was "honored" that Kojima chose Xbox and that the two teams plan to collaborate beyond games on films and television, too. [...] The decision to part ways with Kojima is a significant move for PlayStation that may have ripple effects. [...] One key factor is the PC platform, where the Death Stranding games have generated some revenue. Earlier this year, Sony decided it will no longer release single-player PlayStation games on PC, Bloomberg reported. Sony would therefore not benefit when Kojima Productions released a PC version of Physint on its own or with a different publisher, as it did for the first Death Stranding. But Xbox releases all of its games on PCs and plans to publish Physint on PC and Xbox, said the people. "Betting on Kojima-san is an easy call," said an Xbox spokesperson. "We believe in his team's ability to build AAA games with groundbreaking, new IP and we believe in OD, Physint, and our growing partnership."

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Même à près de 900 €, la PS5 Pro commence à manquer en France. Entre ruptures de stock et livraisons parfois annoncées pour octobre, acheter la console devient compliqué, alors que GTA 6 ne sort que dans trois mois.