Sony has been in some financial trouble lately but all is not lost. There are some ways to turn this around but it is going to take some massive change.
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.
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Sony just needs to advertise more in America.
The territorial, non-communicative executives and engineers bit is a big problem. Sony's first party game developers are REQUIRED to meet and share tech. They are doing great things by collaborating.
I'd also agree that they need to improve some of their cluttered product lines. They don't need to necessarily make the most high end products, but they do need to put together a better cost/quality value with their TVs, cameras, ect. to be competitive. For example, in the case of their TVs, what do Sony's TVs offer that outshine Samsung or Panasonic? Sony's TVs are neither less expensive nor are they more advanced (I'm well aware of OLEDs; they can be included as a legitimate part of the conversation when it can be delivered at an affordable price). They are good TVs, but what advantages do they demonstrate over the competition.
I'm glad their games division has things straightened out. Hopefully Kaz will take the things that are working and apply them elsewhere in other divisions. I think they'll be OK with the right management decisions.
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They should implement their 4 screen/One sony approach to the fullest. They have the hardware, the music/movie/video game companies in their grasp. They should stop infighting with one another and make a hit product. Well, the Japanese government would help them anyway so that is a plus.
Fire their crap marketing team. Build a new one and advertise WAY more!
Apple would never have gotten so big if it weren't for their marketing team.
Sony have the great products, they just need the advertisement to back it up.
That, along with a more competitive price point would get Sony rolling again.