Hacker News with Generative AI: PlayStation

The PS2’s backwards compatibility from the engineer who built it (2020) (medium.com)
As the PlayStation 2 turns 20 in Japan on March 4, followed by Europe and North America later in the year, game outlets of all stripes will undoubtedly be trotting out lists and retrospectives commemorating one of the most culturally significant and successful consoles to ever be produced.

Gaming, Retro Gaming, PlayStation, Hardware, History

279 points by msephton 17 days ago | 101 comments

Playstation 5 transformed into a laptop for $2,750 (tomshardware.com)

Gaming, Hardware, Modification, PlayStation

16 points by LorenDB 68 days ago | 3 comments

I Ran PS3 Games on PS5 Silicon to Prove Sony Wrong [video] (youtube.com)

Gaming, Sony, PlayStation, Hardware, Retro Gaming

15 points by theogravity 71 days ago | 3 comments

Scientific Computing on the Sony Playstation 2 (2003) (archive.org)
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Computer Science department at the University of Illinois are exploring the use of the Sony PlayStation® 2 game console for scientific computing and high-resolution visualization.

Scientific Computing, Gaming Consoles, PlayStation, University Research, History

8 points by sandwichsphinx 74 days ago | 0 comments

Sony Confirms the Playstation 2 Has Sold over 160M Consoles Worldwide (ign.com)
In honor of the PlayStation's 30th anniversary, Sony has launched a webpage revealing some interesting facts in its history — including the long-speculated lifetime sales of the PlayStation 2.

Gaming, Sony, PlayStation, Sales, History

3 points by marban 86 days ago | 0 comments

PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Game Art with Annoying Ads You Can't Turn Off (ign.com)
The PlayStation 5 now has an advert system built into the dashboard user interface you can’t disable without disconnecting from the internet.

PlayStation, Gaming, Advertising, User Interface

27 points by mikhael 144 days ago | 13 comments

PC modder removes annoying PSN account requirement for God of War Ragnarök (arstechnica.com)
Sony's decision to require a PlayStation Network sign-in for the PC port of the single-player God of War Ragnarök is drawing expected levels of ire from frustrated PC gamers.

Gaming, PC Gaming, Sony, PlayStation

13 points by LinuxBender 150 days ago | 11 comments

Sony announces PS5 Pro, a $700 graphics workhorse available Nov. 7 (arstechnica.com)
Sony today announced the PlayStation 5 Pro, a mid-generation hardware upgrade that will play the same game library as 2020's PlayStation 5, but with higher frame rates and better resolution than on the original system.

Gaming, Hardware, Sony, PlayStation

43 points by ksec 164 days ago | 94 comments

Activating a Playstation-Only Cheat on PC in Just Nine Bytes (wordpress.com)

Gaming, Cheating, PlayStation, PC

27 points by tanananinena 172 days ago | 7 comments

Notris: A Tetris clone for the PlayStation 1 (github.com/jbreckmckye)

Video Games, PlayStation, Retro Gaming

293 points by jbreckmckye 187 days ago | 75 comments

PlayStation Portal (Remote Play): Stack-buffer overflow in HEVC decoder (github.com/google)

PlayStation, Remote Play, Security, Software, Buffer Overflow

14 points by skilled 252 days ago | 2 comments

AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor (tomshardware.com)