Hacker News with Generative AI: Sony

I Ran PS3 Games on PS5 Silicon to Prove Sony Wrong [video] (youtube.com)
Zen and the Art of Aibo Engineering (ieee.org)
When Sony’s robot dog, Aibo, was first launched in 1999, it was hailed as revolutionary and the first of its kind, promising to usher in a new industry of intelligent mobile machines for the home. But its success was far from certain.
The Sony Vaio PCG-XR MiniDisc Laptop (vaiolibrary.com)
The Sony VAIO PCG-XR is a series of mid-size Pentium II-based laptops, released in 1999. It was superseded with the PCG-XG in 2000, which had the exact same design and build, but with updated specs.
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.
Sony in talks to buy owner Of Elden Ring developer FromSoftware (kotaku.com)
Reuters is reporting that Sony is in talks to buy Kadokawa Corporation, the company that owns FromSoftware, Spike Chunsoft and many other Japanese businesses.
EU court upholds right to sell Playstation add-ons, in loss for Sony (euronews.com)
Software sold by UK company Datel that allowed infinite boosts on a racing game doesn’t infringe EU copyright law, judges in Luxembourg said, in a ruling that some say could prove crucial to the gaming sector.
PS5 Dashboards Flooded with Unwanted Ads–Sony Claims It Wasn't Intentional (questalerts.com)
Looks like Sony’s doing a bit of damage control—again. So, if you’ve been seeing your PS5 dashboard suddenly littered with ads after the latest update, you’re definitely not alone. But don’t sweat it, Sony says it wasn’t supposed to happen. Yep, they’re blaming it on a “tech error.”
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.
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.
Playstation 5 Pro (playstation.com)
Over the last four years since the launch of PS5, we’ve worked hard to continuously evolve the console experience and deliver the great games our players expect from us. Today, I’m incredibly proud to announce the next step in that evolution and welcome PlayStation 5 Pro to the PlayStation family – our most advanced and innovative console hardware to date.
Sony shutting down Concord, refunds after 2 week launch. 8 year dev, 25k sales (arstechnica.com)
Sony is taking Concord offline on September 6th after disastrous launch (theverge.com)
Sony to raise Playstation 5 price by 20% in Japan (reuters.com)
Complete Visual Guide to Sony CLIÉ (2000-2004) (obsoletesony.substack.com)
Sony Is Killing the Blu-ray, but Physical Media Isn't Dead Yet (kotaku.com.au)
Sony discontinues production of select Blu-ray and optical recording discs (notebookcheck.net)
The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 (homeip.net)
Smartphone Camera Sensors: OmniVision, Samsung Isocell and Sony Exmor (2022) (ek.ua)
Sony lays down the AI gauntlet, warning 700 companies not to train on its music (fortune.com)
My Sony HB-F1XV (thefoggiest.dev)
PPSSPP (Sony PSP Emulator) Approved for the iOS App Store (ppsspp.org)
Nintendo Switch Abandons Twitter, Following Xbox and PS5 (kotaku.com)
Sony Wearable Thermal Device (sony.com.hk)
Helldivers 2 players knew how to mobilize against Sony after training in-game (polygon.com)
Sony overturns Helldivers 2 PSN requirement following backlash (eurogamer.net)
Sony Is Forcing All Helldivers 2 Steam Players to Connect to a PSN Account (ign.com)
Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking as Microsoft Brings Games to PS5 (kotaku.com)