As it turns out, Sony actually shipped 500,000 PlayStation Vita units at launch. This new report, which runs contrary to earlier rumors of an intial shipment of 700,000 units, comes from IGDA Japan vice coordinator Kyoshi Shin in today's column for Nikkei.
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.
@ El_Barto. Does everyone on this site just repeat the same $hit over and over again. Since when does the VITA have to make a dent in the 3DS market. Nintendo fans will buy the 3DS no matter what.Do you think they care if the VITA is better or if it came out 10 years from now? Sony is going for the PlayStation crowd.Those people will buy the VITA. Do you think if Sony sells 75 million VITAs like with the PSP they will care as much as you think? $250 multiplied by 75 million equals Sony smiling all the way to the bank.
Just Sony aritifically inflating numbers. Just like counting free bundles as "sold" to inflate the numbers of games their first-party titles like Uncharted 2 to make it seem they sell as much as games like Gears.
Sadly, the NPD proved it otherwise just the other day.
The more news i hear about the vita the more i want it.
Ever since "the media" claimed Sony apologized for Vita problems, I haven't and will not believe a single word that these media outlets have to say about Vita. They could tell me that the Vita is a black handheld device that plays games and I wouldn't believe them. It's true, but I wouldn't believe them. That's how bad gaming journalism is these days. It's so far in the crapper it's not even funny. There is absolutely no journalistic integrity or accountability in gaming journalism, so who the hell cares what they say anymore.