GB: Kazuo Hirai, president and CEO of Sony, has stepped down as Sony Computer Entertainment chairman
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
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.
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Well since the PS brand doesn't really need fixing like the rest of Sony's products I can see the reason for Kaz to focus on the other problems of the company.
I wonder who will replace Kaz...will it be Andrew House, Jacky T, or Shuhei Yoshida? It will be sad not to see Kaz at E3 to give us memorable quotes but i wish him the best of luck in his fulltime job.
Okay, okay; I'll take his job, Gheeze!
*puts on suit and tie*
"Ahem: Ridge Racer! RIIIIIDGE RAAAACER!"
Can I have my raise and medal now?
;)
OT: I think since he did such a good job in the games division, they're using him in other places to sure-up the company to keep all of those new stock holders happy and get some good word-of-mouth publicity from investors.
Well, that was quick. Maybe he'll join Namco now and be the Riiiiidge Racer spokesman.