Joel Taveras writes, "They say that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but we all do it. I especially do it when buying new toys — taking factors such as design into question whenever I purchase any of my own gadgets, only making concessions when purchasing video game hardware. That’s because, with video game consoles, sure, you’ll eventually get your special editions and color variants later on after launch, but for the most part — especially at first — it’s a take what you can get situation. While I don’t mind showing off gems in my game collection, the hardware itself is usually tucked away since it’s not much to write home about considering that console hardware designs usually suck. But, perhaps Sony can change that this year."
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.
I'm loving Xperia designs for a few years already. Seriously, Sony have one of the best designers in the smartphones market, not to mention the most creative.
It is a nice concept. Would be interesting to see what Sony comes up with.
Sony is the only company that can go head to head with apple designs. I used to own the xperia arc and it was a beautiful piece of art!
From what i have seen on youtube on the Xperia Z & the tablet counterpart, Sony has some potential with these products. I'm looking to upgrade my phone & when the Xperia Z is released it will be the phone of choice for me personally.
I believe the OS for the new PS4 will be probably similar to this or a more revamped version of the Vita, if the rumors of a screen on the controller are true.
The new Xperia 2 Tablet is amazing. Thinking of getting rid of my Xoom 2. As far as the phone is concerned, it looks great but I'll wait to see some more of it.
The tablet is amazing though, has 2gb of RAM and is the thinnest tablet in the world atm. Pretty powerful thing if you check the specs out. Hopefully they have some cool apps designed around the PS4.
(My phone is pretty fried atm, broken digitizer. Seriously looking around, so might start here).