Ben Kuchera of PAR writes: "The video game industry is competitive, and you often have to be willing to lose vast amounts of money before you begin to turn a profit. Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo all have different strategies to deal with this reality, but Sony is in a uniquely poor position heading into this holiday season and may have already all but given up on the PlayStation 3. Of the three companies that are creating and marketing gaming consoles, Sony has the most challenges heading into the next generation.
Let’s dive into what Sony has to overcome in order to gain dominance in 2013."
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.
This dude really bugs me. Somehow, he's a business analyst. Only problem is he's not objective in the slightest (never mind not qualified either). It's doom and gloom. It's Sony spin. It's "Games perform better on Microsoft hardware". Yeah...in 2008. I wish more of the "journalists" would step into 2012 and report accordingly. Somehow, the opinion of a disgruntled ex-employee is news worthy. A $269 PS3 bundle isn't priced to compete with a 8GB, $300 Wii U or $400 360 Halo 4 bundle. Wha?! Ben, gimme the crystal ball you're looking into so I could pull the PowerBall numbers.
Well if they are in any trouble & keep pumping out games like they are, ill be there to buy em.. I doubt they would buy multi million dollar businesses & provide so much software if there were.. I got enough juice out of my PS3 & cant wait for the nx gen beast..
Sony is in trouble that much is known as the company lacks the ability to make money, but that seems to be changing and from reports it seems the company as a whole can see profit in 2014 I do believe.
I'm a strong believer in the market will correct itself and if Sony isn't capable of being a viable company they will fall themselves.
Another article trying to focus on how much trouble Sony is in. This is about thousandth article trying to say exactly what we have been hearing for months now. Sony is in financial trouble and they are attempting to fix it.But we have to hear it a thousand different ways while people on gaming sites try to pretend that they are more concerned about what is happening to Sony more then everyone else is. Sony is the one fighting to keep their company and all that they worked for and as usual people try to make it all about them. If they go down what do we lose? A few of their products? Their movies? Their music? And yet people constantly cry about how serious this is as if it is them who is going to lose if Sony dies. I don't want Sony to go down either but it is them who have the most to lose out of this, not us.So just waiting for the thousandth and one article trying to say 'Sony's in trouble'.
Looks like it is 2007 once again. Sony\Playstation is DOOMED!!!! Nice try but I am not going to click on the link and give you a it.