Francis "Xipher" Nunez Writes:
Today has been a very eventful day for gaming. As many of you out there in the interwebs may know this week witnessed the unveiling of Sony’s new next generation console, the Playstation 4 or PS4 as we all call it. Sony brought with it a slew of new franchises, new games in popular franchises, and introduced services to their consumers. PS4 let the X-Bone (X-Box One) know who’s boss. I’ll try to cover all the bases for the new console in this article for you!
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
With all the PlayStation games that are now coming to PC, is it time for Sony to release a dedicated PC launcher?
Unless they are trying to kill their recently created PC business, I would advise against opening a dedicated PC store. It's an extremely hard endeavor, and people, in general, are very comfortable with Steam. Even Epic, with their billions of dollars invested, is still struggling to find a foothold, and they have Fortnite.
Can tell who ever put this together is not all that clued up on pc gaming.
It's just a known fact. The PC gaming community prefer Steam and Steam alone. They don't like different launchers. I personally don't mind them. But majority just stick with steam. Hence why EA and Ubisoft went back to on releasing on steam and why Microsoft release games on steam as people hated buying from the windows store.
The only other launchers that I imagine are doing ok is GOG due to being drm free and epic games due to the free games every week. Sony shouldn't release any sort of pc launcher n
This is just another ridiculous double standard article.
It's like how Microsoft can spend 20 years of making nothing but gaas and live service style games to sell microtransactions, dlc and subscriptions and get praise for doing it, but if Sony wants to make a single game like that every website under the sun is writing articles saying how Sony is anti-consumer or whatever.
They didn't come to play, they came to win!
I love Sony; I have since the PS1 came out, and their games have always been the best to me. Of course this is a matter of personal opinion so please spare the nonsense.
yeah it was good... I had prices in my head where I would go to each console.. Lets just say Sony hit it right on the head, and Xbox missed badly...
thing is people are on here talking about hyporcrites becasue sony fans were all jacked about the ps3 and all its options, and now they are "flipping around" about the bared down ps4 and how Xbone is a full media device.
But its not hypocrisy, it goes something like this for me. PS3 had a bluray which I already wanted, it had free online which i wanted, it was all bluetooth and backwards compatible, which I wanted. Due to this I was willing to pay a higher price, 649 to be exact.
XBone, I didn't want the kinect camera, which they make you get, didn't want to pay to play online - no choice, and didn't want DRM (although it's not as big for me with cable internet)... and its 549 (estimated cdn) plus online fees .. above where I was willing to go. Also voice features are useless I run a full surround system with logitech remote.
PS4 - doesn't come with the eye, which I dont ever want, has slightly better specs (may not matter much), still bluetooth everything, pay online, which I don't want, but is 449 (cdn) which is BELOW where I was willing to go... so the Plus subscription is a bit of subsidy there, ok, i get that and you get free games so that's a bit better too.
It's weird but it's like Sony stole all MS good ideas and ran with it... and MS is repeating PS3 launch mistakes...That's it, my decision is pretty much done.
It's sad that the issues Sony addressed even had to be. I can't believe MS is doing all of this DRM always online BS.