PlayStation 4 is expected to make a loss at launch, Sony has confirmed, but the company hopes to regain some of the outgoings via the new paid PS Plus requirement for online gaming. Launch titles are also hoped to stem the loss.
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 wish them good luck! There have been far too many studios and publishes going out of business lately and any success story the gaming world is fantastic.
Ps4 is worth $460
Xbone without Kinect eye is worth ?? $350
That's bullshit. They are selling with profit + the ps+ money. That's how companies work these days. They don't care about bringing the best tech . They make decisions based on profit not evolve . That's why ps4 is cheap because that's what people want for now but they don't think about the future. That's why if i were them i would create 600$ console to really use the tech instead of waiting another 7 years to use the new tech which will be old when these years pass .
This is not hate for the ps4. This is a fact. X1 is worst.
That's a much better scenario from where they were at the PS3 launch....
In a year or so i think they'll get to the break even point on the hardware alone, 2/3 years start making profit. Given the price of GDDR5 and the fact Sony will no doubt be the biggest single customer of modules, they should be getting a good discount which will continue for the next 7/8 years, so i think the price of these should drop rather quickly. And they're right about the PS+ adoption rate, i think the vast majority will also be purchasing at launch.
So far Sony are making all the right calls.