Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) has confirmed today that the PlayStation 3 console has sold more than five million units in the UK since launch. Spurred on by the recent release of the new look 500GB console, the newly appointed UK Managing Director, Fergal Gara, has positioned the console for a buoyant fourth quarter.
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.
well done sony?
Not going to lie... I thought it was more then that.
Remember that the UK population is only around ~60 million or so and is geographically very much smaller than the likes of the US or Canada.
5 million sold sounds right to me, consoles in the UK don't ship hundreds of thousands of units per month given the size of the market.
woaa PS3 Super Slim sold 5 million units in its first 3 weeks on sale in the UK Alone.. Holy Crap
And there´s some people´s that said "the new PS3 isn´t going to sell".