Chris Jager of GGG writes: "Last week, we checked out Sony's first batch of 3D games for the PlayStation 3 — namely, Wipeout HD, Super Stardust HD, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift and Pain.
With oversized 3D glasses perched atop our noses, we ran through each game in their 2D and 3D iterations. We also roped one of our non-gaming pals into the office to give us a “man-on-the-street” perspective.
Read on to find out how each game played...
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Sony has patented to add multiple dialogue modes to let players switch between how many conversations with NPCs they want in the game.
Sony is like the only ones outta the 3 that has atuff like like this pop up changing thing in ways.
Genuine Enabling Technology was seeking damages, claiming the tech allowing PlayStation consoles and controllers to communicate infringes its rights.
Sounds like patent trolling they tried the same thing against Nintendo with the same pattern.
Motion and control input traversing over higher and lower frequencies seperate from each other allowing the controller to do both
So to recoup the money Genuine is going to take on Nintendo or Microsoft next. I hate patent lawyers they are some of the worst bottom feeders out there.
3D is an absolute gimmick! Plus the games the PS3 is debuting with are absolute rubbish.
As a non-glasses wearer in general, i can't see myself being able to enjoy a game while wearing a pair of those oversized abominations. I guess it might be cool for a quick burst of gaming, but that's about it. I'll wait till we can view 3D without the glasses.
So what's the deal with Xbox 360? Are they doing a 3D firmware update too? Or does this stuff only work for Blu-ray?
So to recap, Motorstorm looks cool but suffers from wonky wheels, Stardust is pretty but shallow, Wipeout is worse in 3D and PAIN is PAIN (i.e. - lame). Doesn't sound too great to be honest.
Hopefully the next batch of games will offer something better.
Not a game-changer yet, be a nice experience though but it will loose it's appeal imo.
Good to see sony pushing the tech though.