The High Street has been called in to help Sony ramp up subscribers to its PlayStation Plus service.
The platform holder has today (August 17th) launched new one-year (£39.99) and 90-day (£11.99) subscription cards into specialists stores, and is set to embark on a ‘really big’ marketing and PR push for the service.
The news follows Sony's Gamescom announcement that PlayStation Plus will be coming to Vita.
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.
PlayStation Plus has been "coming" to Vita for a while....3 month subscriptions are ending, and Sony has failed to do anything to "wow" NEW subscribers. I know I know, you've been a subscriber and its amazing FOR YOU, but the whole E3 deal was to get NEW people on-board.
Other than the E3 update, the NA region has failed epicly in terms of content and SALES (not just free stuff, I wanted to buy things) It's constantly "wait for the next update" when someone complains too. NO, just fix it and I'll come back....
A quality update here and there doesn't warrant it. Heck even Sound Shapes was a very limited sale, I went to buy it and it was already too late....it went back to full price. The early Counter Strike 'demo" never happened either....You can't just sit there and praise them for PS Plus if you want it to improve, you have to tell them whats wrong and what you want MORE of.
To be fair, how many people are going to pay for something that is free?
Yes you do get the little extras (which are great) but how many people want them?
If a person (like me) has signed up to PSN/SEN to play online as its primary function, why would I want to pay for it? I have no use for the extra free DLC etc, so I would not bother to pay for the premium service.
I do however pay for XBL (Until recently, havent renewed since I dont have as much time to game online) - But its mandatory to get online, I dont have a choice but to purchase XBL gold to play online.
PSN - Free goes a long way.
I'm in no way implying this is a bad thing...but! (always a big but and a smile) this seems like the beginning of something more articulated...
My point is, publishers lose between £5-£10 at retail per disc...they would rather lessen that amount or keep that within the profit margin...
With that in mind, I can see full games being purchased (for those without Credit/Debit Cards) like PSN/LIVE cards one day, that in addition to downloading off the network direct.
There may soon be a future where little or no physical copies will be sold at retail...just codes
Theoretically, we may soon be able to procure our games at convenient stores, Gas Stations Ect
*Within the next 5-6 years maybe?
Maybe PSN+ Cards are a testing ground to lure the public into digital purchasing...like mental conditioning by stealth.
Just a thought....
Anyone know when the patch for the cloud storage upgrade and vita support are coming?
Hmmm, this might intice me to pick up a Plus subcription.
I already pay $40 bux for Live if I can pay the same or less for PS+ then I would.
But is this only available over seas?