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140 points

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.

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106 points

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)

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72 points

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.)

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37 points

why do companies want to pay royalties for hdmi when display port is better

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11 points

I can’t find anything about Bluetooth being proprietary and requiring royalty fees.

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7 points

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.

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2 points

Bluetooth everything is libre.

HDMI charges like 10 cents a port.

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1 point

I thought the controllers were connected by bluetooth

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41 points

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

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5 points

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

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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.

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