Joel Taveras writes, " ['What Should Be Next' is a weekly column where I examine and discuss certain trends, franchises, genres and ideas in the gaming industry, and where they should be headed.]
If you would have told me in 2004 that in the next generation of consoles the Gamecube’s successor would be the new king, that Microsoft would take a 10 million unit head start, and that Sony’s PS3 would be playing catch up — I would have called you an idiot. And I would have been totally wrong because that’s exactly how it all went down. But now, six years into the current gen, Nintendo is at a standstill and the margin that once separated Microsoft and Sony is now less than 2 million units. Sony is in position to reclaim the crown, but there’s still some unfinished business that needs to be done before that happens. "
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 would like to see...
A Orange Box styled collection from Valve announced if Half life 3 is shown at E3 with L4D, L4D2, Counter Strike: GO and maybe a updated TF2 which will all be updated through Steamworks. Could be the best thing ever....
NaughtyDog buys the right back off Activision for Crash Bandicoot and also Spryo aswell....hell if Insomniac don't want it ND may aswell buy it.
One last big update for the PSN, get all the PS1 Classics out...especialy for Europe aswell our PS1 classics suck.
If they could...and had the chance, get Resident Evil 6 to be an exclusive. I would of said GTAV but thats not going to happen with how much money it makes....nice thought but still.
At the VGAs next year have ND announce a new one off game as the last game for the PS3. No point in making Uncharted 4, they should keep that for the PS4. I mean theres some good marketing here if they can get some titles announced alongside the PS4 (if it's announced in 2012), some which would be launch games. Jak 4, Uncharted 4, God of War 4, Resistance 4, Killzone 4, basicaly of the big "4" games
2012 will be a slow year, the big 3 will be focusing on next gen.
Starhawk (the beta is awesome)
Sorcery
GTA V
and Twisted Metal will make for an awesome year.
Hopefully we get another KZ announcement at E3 (better go back to your KZ2 roots GG)
D: How could I forget about the Last of US? I also still need to get UC3 and Skyrim (and Arkham City, and BF3 >.<)
Que sera,sera what ever will be will be............. .que sera,sera
2012....
Starhawk
The Last of Us
New Guerilla Games game(E3 reveal) 2012 release
New Quantic Dreams game(E3 reveal) 2012 release
The Last Guardian
New Media Molecule game(2012 reveal) Q1 2013 release
Santa Monica game(God of War or new IP)
Twisted Metal
All of those are either confirmed or plausible.