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Re: PS5's 3D Audio Will Almost Certainly Work with Your Existing Headphones

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@thefourfoldroot @Joker22Hero
Bluetooth support?! Probably not happening. It's highly likely sony and MS won't support bluetooth headphones at all because bluetooth does not support high quality stereo audio with a microphone. When you use a microphone the bluetooth profile switches from A2DP (high quality stereo profile) to HSP and you're limited to 64kbps audio up and down. It's fine for bluetooth headphones where you can use the A2DP profile while listening to music and the headphones switch to the HSP profile when you receive a call, so you never have to suffer through 64kbps music and wonder why your $200 headphones sound like $10 90's earbuds.

But in a game console where chat and game audio is mixed it doesn't make any sense to switch profiles all the time, so you'd have to use the HSP profile at all times and the sound quality would be terrible.

So instead both sony and MS decided not to support bluetooth headphones on this gen, and it's not likely to change since 7 years later bluetooth STILL doesn't support high quality stereo audio+mic. Any wireless headphones you use on PS4/Xbox one are NOT using bluetooth, not because both sony and ms are greedy but because bluetooth is bad for gaming