Game Rant's Jeff Schille writes: "Sony Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida reveals that there will be no PlayStation Vita price cut this year. With no holiday price cut to boost sales, could this be the beginning of the end for Vita?"
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.
It won't doom the Vita, nor is it the beginning of the end. The Vita's fantastic holiday lineup and Cross Buy bargain will help the system sell better than it has thus far (which isn't saying anything at all, given its abysmal sales) and the Vita should have an "okay" holiday season.
A price cut could have been a turning point that made the Vita have a GOOD holiday season, but frankly, Sony will take what they can get with it. A price cut is out of the question right now, because Sony is already losing money on the system, and they don't have the spare cash to dig that hole deeper in order to move units.
Long term I believe the Vita will struggle to be successful, and a price cut could very well fix that, but for now the Vita isn't doomed. It will see a sales increase in Q4 of 2012, and then its sales will slump again. The Vita will not be able to reach massive success without a price cut, but now is not a viable time for Sony unfortunately.
Yeah!! And here it is...
There's that word again.....
* sigh *.... LEARN HOW TO BE A PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST. God damn, stop spamming with this B*** S***
NO. the types of games will decide Vita's fate.