One person claiming to be a former senior manager at Sony posted in a Glassdoor review of the company that he doesn't think Sony's next-gen system, codenamed Orbis, will do very well.
A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.
I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.
I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons
I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.
Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.
At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath
I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.
Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
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.
I find it funny, Sony dabbled with causal games this Gen, we have seen a good share of them and they didn't really move units, but they sold okay. They still have Wonderbook and a few others and those are selling okay. Their main focus is on Hardcore, just look at their games coming out next week, The last company you would think to forget about the core is Sony. We already seen Nintendo do it, for the most part, but they are trying to get them back with the Wii U and Microsoft sold their soul to the causal with Kinect.
Bottom line is, I don't believe it. I find it funny people tend to talk bad about a company after they got fired, or quit. If you have something to say why not express your opinion, out in the open, so people know who you are. The power of free Speech. People do it all the time. Anyone can list themselves as a former worker for any company and this is no different. I rather see a name, then a title. If not, this person is just butt-hurt about something.
Oh Kotaku,
Santa isn't bringing you naughty trolls anything this year and you have to attack others again with garbage.
Kotaku: If you can't be the hero, be the villain... both get equal billing.
"One person claiming to be a former senior manager at Sony"
Great journalistic integrity as always Kotaku.
Kotaku HQ.
Writer: Boss we got this guy on the line that claims to have worked for Sony and he has some dirt.
Boss: Anyway to prove it?
Writer: No just claims.
Boss: Run with it.
"Focus on your core gamer"
I see Sony losing focus with their core gamers with games like the Last of Us, God of War Ascension, Beyond: Two Souls, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, Until Dawn etc.
Then we have Microsoft with Gears of War....
I loled.