The Verge sits down with Sony's president and CEO for a chat.
(Skip forward 11 minutes for Hirai's opinions on gaming, the success of the PS Vita, and a small hint towards the Playstation 4.)
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.
Focus more on the Vita and stop releasing TVs that nobody can afford.
very interesting interview, i got the feeling kaz was talking about the ps4 at times lol and for the first time ever im really interested in a sony phone, Xperia Z might be my new cell phone purchase.
Don't forget that you need to release the ps4 within six months after the x-box 720 or you will lose again.
PS4 should come in three years. Let the others have a head start, make your money back Sony. You wanted to give the public innovative hardware by putting a blu ray player in the PS3 and it bit you in the ass. Cheap is the way to go for consumers.
If they want to sell this 4k tv's please compare this tv to a regular 1080p tv's. Let us see the real difference and no shiny advertisment we can not understand.
PS the xperia Z will be my next phone:D Water resistent instant buy!