• @[email protected]
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    1376 months ago

    As the message says, the PS5 doesn’t support any Bluetooth audio. It doesn’t matter if it’s made by Sony, you cannot connect audio devices to a PS5 via Bluetooth.

    • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒OP
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      1046 months ago

      Ps4 does, what pepega shit is this

      (It is a meme I stole I am not currently attempting to connect a headset, but I am nonetheless bothered by ps5s lack of bluetooth)

      • Cethin
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        706 months ago

        Most likely they’d have to pay royalties to use Bluetooth software on their device, and they deemed the cost too high. The same thing is true for HDMI and other things. They’re proprietary, so sometimes devices won’t support it so they don’t have to pay royalties. (Unrelated, but I honestly don’t understand how HDMI still exists though with DisplayPort being available without the licensing costs. It just controls so much of the market that it can’t die.)

          • @Bassman1805
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            99% of the people I know have no clue what Display Port is, while even my tech-illiterate grandparents know about HDMI.

            The people you’re ultimately selling to are more important than almost anything else in the equation.

            • @rockSlayer
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              236 months ago

              There was a point where hdmi was new too. DisplayPort is superior, it should be the new standard

              • @Bassman1805
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                When HDMI was new, none of is predecessors were even 10% as universally known as HDMI is today.

                DVI, VGA, Component, Composite, a few different Coax options… it was all over the place.

                It’s like trying to overtake Facebook today and arguing that there were social media sites before Facebook. Sure, but they weren’t nearly the same Goliath.

              • Cethin
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                66 months ago

                I agree it should be, but it won’t be for a while still. HDMI is still far more well known that it won’t happen quickly.

          • @[email protected]
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            I like the physical plug for display port more too. Is it just because there isn’t some LLC pushing adoption of display port like there is for HDMI?

        • @SzethFriendOfNimi
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          I can see that being an issue but there’s also the issue with lag/latency. Although, if somebody wants to deal with a slight audio delay I say more power to them.

        • Kairos
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          Bluetooth everything is libre.

          HDMI charges like 10 cents a port.

    • @Psychodelic
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      416 months ago

      That’s fuckin insane. I had no idea it couldn’t even do that. The crazier thing is looking it up and seeing all the fanboys defending this as actually a good thing

      • @SomeGuy69
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        56 months ago

        Crazy I didn’t know. The defender fanboys are even in this thread. Wow

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      It’s so that they sell more of their first party gracias Headphones

      Edit: lmao I meant wireless

      • VindictiveJudge
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        It didn’t originally, but it had a bluetooth transmitter it was using for the joycons and other controllers. A system update in 2021 added bluetooth audio support. The patch noted that not every headset would work, and microphones won’t work at all, but it’s there. Go to System Settings -> Bluetooth Audio to use it. I haven’t had any problems getting stuff to connect, but I’ve also only tried pairing two things so that’s a tiny sample size. One of those has volume control that successfully sends volume up/down commands to the Switch, the other fails to adjust the volume.

        The PS5 also uses bluetooth for its controllers, so they could do the same thing if they wanted.