So while Sony was busy drawing lines in the sand, Microsoft was giving gamers a voice, Nintendo was finding a new audience (the so called ‘casual gamer’) and indie and mobile gaming were on the rise. By the time the PS3 came out, Sony seemed out-of-date and out-of-touch, with no clear gaming strategy beyond hoping their established fan base would simply throw money at them. Luckily, the newly appointed president and CEO of Sony Corporation, Kazuo “Kaz” Hirai, seems to have lit a flame under this giant’s arse.
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.
How was Sony out-of-date with the PS3? Its tech definitely held the most potential. Despite that potential being locked away by it being so difficult to get to. Regardless, yes Kaz Hirai is definitely proving to be just the thing Sony needed. They've been making so many good decisions lately, it's really refreshing to see. Especially with all the indie support they're garnering.
and Sony, always struggling to find its place, is slowly reaching for the hardcore gaming throne that once belonged to Microsoft.
What a load of crap.Sony never left the Hardcore if anything they're the only company who haven't forgotten about us.
Oh yeah, Sony SO learned with the PS4...
Catering to pubs and devs over gamers.
Lacking features such as BC, analog face buttons on the DS4 and reading CD's.
Social features possibly taking precedent over game quality gradually in the long run.
Thinking devs are going to magically support with games because of easier architecture. *looks at Vita*
Tip... of... iceberg...
Sony improved themselves with PS4, ps3 had alot of exclusives , sony did greatly.
I think with the PS3 to us at the time it seemed like they were bloody crazy with the price and their slow but long term plan.....but now it's worked out for them because were coming to the end of this gen and they are the only ones left that still seem to give a crap about core gaming, lets not forget all the good games that still to come despite the PS4 being announced. Nintendo dried up a few years after the Wii launched and Microsoft got greedy and decided to go down a casual focused path totally forgetting about us core gamers.
I mean Sony planned so far a head with the PS3 that if I knew that there long term plan was going to work I wouldn't of even cared about the high price point.