Sony executives are considering splitting the company's entertainment and electronics divisions, following billionaire Daniel Loeb's proposed initial public offering of its entertainment business. The entertainment arm includes all PlayStation properties, alongside Sony's film and music businesses.
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.
if they split off the 2, the entertainment sector would thrive.
What this means according to the experts analysts of N4G?
The only way that makes sense is to let the electronics side crumble without taking out the others with it.
I mean take out PlayStation and movies, and Sony isn't doing too well. Then also don't give them music?
Wouldn't the logical step be to just cut off the TV division until the global economy comes back? You don't even need to shut it down entirely, just scale it back to a select few models and keep it at that. You already have 4K ones coming, so you won't lose ground in the high end market.....
Everything seems to come back to their TV market being crap. People are simply buying cheap TV's. It isn't like it was where Sony was one of the top dogs with better products. people just see the selection, hardly see a difference, and go for the cheap version.... Their music, movies, and gaming departments are doing fine. Xperia / Ericson is starting to take off too. What is holding them back? TVs, like it has been for the past 10 years.
Chances of that are slim.4-5 years ago? maybe.Kaz is boss now and has been actively uniting all aspects of Sony.Top brass know this.
Give the man some time to work.Especially with one of the greatest consoles of all time about to light the industry on fire.
So they plan on splitting the hardware part, which loses money with the entertainment division which includes Playstation and makes money? I'm ok with this.