OrangeRKN wrote:Yeah, Sony love pushing their proprietary standards (don't forget they'll charge licencing) but this one isn't going mainstream. There might be some third party headphones specifically sold for Playstation that support it, but that'll be it.
The kicker is that their *current* headphones don’t support it, only the new ones. I… think…
It’s hard to know. The current headphones need a dongle because they use a different protocol to skirt the Bluetooth latency. In an ideal world that’d be the same protocol as these but it’s probably not.
One of the previews implied this new protocol is built into the PS5 already, because they claimed the Portal can use it to stream from the console instead of WiFi when you’re close enough, but I can’t imagine that’s accurate. If the console could always do it, why would they ever have put out headphones that don’t use it? Why does the dongle exist.