The PS5 Tempest audio engine, which processes 3D audio at a system level, will only work with headphones at the PS5 launch. While TV speaker compatibility is still being worked on, it won?t be available at launch, coming sometime ?in the future.? Sony?s drip feed of new information about the PS5 only has about a month to go before the next-gen console is in players? hands, and the latest basically reiterates what Mark Cerny already said back in March 2020 during his Road to PS5 tech presentation.
Tempest will provide 3D audio to ?the headphones that many of you already own? via either USB connection or the DualSense audio jack. The post calls out the new Pulse 3D wireless headset, but presumably any headset using USB or the audio jack will work, given the Tempest audio engine working at the system level. Headphones are the ?gold standard? for 3D audio?because Sony knows positionally exactly where the audio is coming from?but the ?engineers are hard at work? getting internal TV speakers to work with virtual surround sound, though it won?t be available at launch.
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