Sony’s PlayStation Boycott Puts to the Test a Digital Volume 34-Fold Greater Than Physical Game Sales

All surfaced today via Tom’s Guide’s roundup of the live sale; the larger “November Savings” event lists 2,400+ discounted items at up to 80% off. Tom's Guide+1

Ghost of Yōtei is the highly anticipated sequel to 2020’s Ghost of Tsushima, but set far to the north of Tsushima’s map. Players take on the role of Atsu, a masterless samurai voiced by Erika Ishii wbur.org. Sixteen years before the game’s story begins, Atsu’s entire clan and family were slaughtered by the mysterious “Yōtei Six.” Now, in 1603 Ezo, she embarks on a bloody quest for vengeance across snow-capped ridges, wildflower fields, and frozen forests en.wikipedia.org wbur.org. The game combines stealth and melee combat: Atsu wields katanas, bows, yari spears and more, and even a kaginawa grappling hook en.wikipedia.org. Players can tackle the Yōtei Six in any order thanks to a non-linear quest structure, and engage in optional side activities like hunting outlaws for bounties or relaxing at onsens – a returning pastime from Tsushima.

Washington Post’s Gene Park says Ghost of Yōtei “sharpens the samurai revenge formula with raw feeling,” adding that it “plays like a page‑turner.” He praises Erika Ishii’s lead turn and notes the game elevates character writing over the grand historical canvas that sometimes weighed down Tsushima. The Washington Post

Sony capped the event with its most anticipated first-party title: Marvel’s Wolverine. The new trailer gave fans a grisly first look at Insomniac’s take on Logan, featuring “fast, fluid… attacks and techniques that’ll dismember or break anyone who gets in his way,” as the developers embrace the character’s savage combat blog.playstation.com. Set for a Fall 2026 release on PS5, the game will take Wolverine from the frosty Canadian wilderness to the neon streets of Madripoor and beyond twistedvoxel.com. The footage even teased iconic adversaries like the mutant Mystique and villainous Omega Red lurking in the narrative twistedvoxel.com. Insomniac confirmed Australian actor Liam McIntyre as the voice of Logan, and promised a level of gore and detail surpassing their Spider-Man games gamesradar.com gamesradar.com. This ultra-violent tone answered the big fan question of whether a Wolverine game would go as “violent and visceral as the comics” – a resounding yes, according to the studio gamesradar.com gamesradar.com.

High-end Hi-Fi headphones: French audio specialist Focal rolled out the Bathys MG, an all-new wireless ANC headphone. It’s the Bathys platform with a breakthrough: magnesium drivers instead of aluminum ecoustics.com. Early demos at the North American “Audio Advice Live” event noted the magnesium cones deliver “even crisper detail,” making Bathys MG a new flagship audiophile travel headset ecoustics.com ts2.tech. Separately at the World of Headphones expo, iFi Audio showcased its GO pod Max – essentially a wireless DAC/amp for in-ear monitors ts2.tech twice.com. Encased in machined aluminum, the GO pod Max streams lossless Bluetoth 5.4 and upscales audio via a built-in DAC. iFi calls it a “flagship” product that sets “a bold new benchmark for uncompromising wireless audio” twice.com, letting audiophiles finally untether high-end wired IEMs without the usual quality drop.