PS5 Pro is facing stock shortages in Japan, and Sony has opened a lottery system for people who want to buy one. To enter you need a Sony account and must have played at least 60 hours of games on PS4, PS5, or both between September 27, 2024 and September 27, 2026. The lottery will be used if there are more applications than available consoles.

PS5 CONTROLLER · LINER TRUCK Driving a liner truck… with a PS5 controller. From the control room. Prufrock digs the hole. Liner truck hauls the concrete rings in — remote sticks, no driver underground. Gaming hardware → infrastructure.

PS5 emulation has hit another impressive milestone. A Discord user named RSantila reportedly booted Astro Bot on a Windows PC using SharpEmu, an experimental PS5 emulator. This is huge since Astro Bot is a 2024 PS5 exclusive and shows how quickly PS5 emulation is advancing. One interesting detail is that Claude is listed as a contributor to the SharpEmu project on GitHub because people are using it to advance even faster. Apparently the community is contributing more after Sony’s recent announcement about ending physical game distribution in some markets. Don’t expect to play PS5 games on PC anytime soon, though. Booting a game is just the first step.

A PS5 emulator update says SIX games now run “fully playable at 60 FPS.” SharpEmu’s note put that at 6 of 55 tested titles. Twelve can reach in-game. Demon’s Souls is one of those twelve. It gets into gameplay. The list still flags heavy graphic and performance issues. The 60 FPS set is things like Dead Cells and remaster packs, not the big exclusives.