VG247: Rob Fahey makes sense of Sony’s Gaikai buy. Streaming is only part of PlayStation’s future, but it’s going to be a vital one which leverages an enviable back catalogue across multiple devices. Question is, who’s going to buy OnLive?
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.
Clouded vision: what Sony will do with Gaikai?
use it?
if gamers have been watching closely,KEN KUTARAGI(yes,that guy!) has been working on cloud based computing up into December 2011.that's six months ago.the questions you have to ask yourselves is
what was he working on that was so "totally cool" that dealt with cloud computing?
http://www.google.com/url?s...
was gakai a better alternative or a grab at patents?
sony has so much content from movies,tv shows,music and games,that they would have an advantage over others.apple,microsoft,etc,don 't OWN content like sony.they just deliver content to you at a PRICE by making deals.which includes sony.
but what if sony delivered that content exclusively to every device that's capable?
not saying i like cloud,but it is convenient.netflix,amazon,hulu ,pandora,etc are convenient.if sony makes it easy for you to get it,and puts it everywhere,the money will rake in.it's why microsoft is gunning to create it's own offering of content on xbox.they know sony is working on it.it's why they LEAKED that document.stop you from thinking about last of us and beyond...or just sony in general.as halo 4 has created no hype.
but as we already know,sony will still offer bluray for those that don't have great internet.but for sony,it's easy money,no piracy and cheap hardware as ps3,ps vita are capable of doing it just like ps4.and every other capable device.if gakai can work in a web browser,it will work on anything.and with nvidia's grid.....
things just got INTERESTING.....
I wonder what Sony will do with this. Do they have the ecosystem for this to be a success, I don't really follow Sony closely anymore.
If executed well this could be game changing in a sense but a hardware company pulling off a software driven ecosystem is going to be rocky.
I use Onlive on my Mac and it works fine so peoples fear on log and other concerns should be somewhat smoove if you have broadband internet.
Also, does Microsoft buy Onlive now? Hmmm this is going to be good.
When we said we wanted 'Cloud' on PS3 we meant a FFVII remake.
But this is close enough.
Things just got interesting...