PS5’s golden years… Sony’s sending its PlayStation 5 console into early retirement, saying it’ll soon “enter the latter stage of its life cycle.” Sales of the towering console (it’s giving Sauron) fell 4M short of expectations last year. Execs expect that was the PS5’s sales peak, despite supply-chain kinks that made it hard to buy the four-year-old console until recently. But it’s a rough time for gamers who just got their hands on one: no major titles from PS franchises like God of War and Spider-Man are planned for the next full year.
Keep ’em at 10 and 2… Alphabet-owned Waymo issued its first recall (via software update) last week after two of its robotaxis hit the same towed truck a few minutes apart. Rival GM-owned Cruise has even bigger roadblocks: its entire driverless fleet was pulled last year after one of its cars dragged a pedestrian 20 feet, causing serious injuries. Cruise’s CA license got suspended, several execs were ousted, and regulators are investigating. These incidents haven’t fostered public support: some San Franciscans recently torched a Waymo vehicle.