PSLS: "The PSN may be down, but Cross Game Chat will always be here for you. The crew have strong opinions on this week’s news, and a few intense debates start up.
Our News Topics
* Sony Fights to Resuscitate the PlayStation Network
* Fumito Ueda Delays Both his PS3 Projects
* God of War 4 Defying the Gods, Releasing September 2012?
* Dead Space 3 is currently in the lab as Visceral Games is hiring
* PS3 May See Skyrim Mods
* Child of Eden Delayed for PS3, but for a Good Reason
* Chrono Trigger Prepares to Show the PSN What’s Been Missing"
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.
I frankly don't understand why we don't have keyboard/mouse support for all games - it should just be a firmware update with a mini menu in the accessory settings allowing you to bind keys to the keyboard/mouse buttons. I have a keyboard hooked up to my PS3 almost all the time just to send messages back and forth any way.
For the hardcore PC modders, PC gaming will always be better. Even if we see modding make its way to consoles, we'll still be limited by what the devs and console makers allow us to do - where as on PC, once you access the source code and you know what you're doing, there's virtually unlimited freedom to make what you want.
And if StarCraft 2 came to PS3, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Hell, I was considering buying a new PC for the sole purpose of playing that.
I am listening to tis right now. Good stuff!!
Another thing! PC vs Console - PSN goes down, all PS3 online play is screwed. On PC, if a server or network goes down, online gaming for that particular game or service is down, but hell you can always jump on a number of other things, or do direct connect, or find an alternate server, or play a different game... or... whatever. I love console gaming for the ease and simplicity, but it also places you at the mercy of the platform owner.