Microsoft is banking on Xbox Live and Kinect as their game changer; Nintendo is counting on the Wii U GamePad and Nintendo TVii's social aspect as their 1-2 punch. But it seems as though Sony already has all the pieces of the puzzle and it's now just a matter of putting them together.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
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.
Nice read, but some possibilities were overlooked. You mention HOME on the Vita, which I believe will come in the not too distant future, and as you say, through Gaikai. But what about Vita/PS3 integration? What about walking around HOME on your PS3 using your Vita as a controller. It could be used for chatting, typing, snapping pictures of your friends -- to hang on your apartment wall -- and menu access.
HOME is somewhat clunky, as you rightly point out. But, does it have to be? With Gaikai you would no longer need the HOME App on your hard drive. It could sit there merrily on the servers, utilise a PS3 cluster that enabled it to run smoothly, without load times, and be streamed straight onto your PS3 or Vita. This would allow for seamless integration between the Vita and the PS3 too. Expanding HOME would just be a matter of upgrading it server side and it could be done without a single load time.
Moving HOME wouldn't be so stressful either... (see what I did there?) Gaikai is appearing on many platforms from TVs to Laptops to mobile phones, so why not take HOME there too? In this way, HOME could be just as valuable to Sony as PSMobile.
A bit of loading he says...
Though its easy to see where active streaming would make something like Home into a seamless experience. Including all types of game interaction.
Will users have to be pay for it is the question.
Cloud gaming is definitely a wave of the future, but the infrastructure still seems a ways off from it being accepted as a mainstream way to game right now. Being so reliant upon broadband ISP providers is what will either hinder or help this growth, especially here in the states. Where throttling and data caps seems to be plaguing multi-media efforts in direct digital entertainment. Netflix is one thing, but we kind of eat the quality of the video streaming services, in favor of ease of use and on demand features. What would cloud gaming be like right now if this is anything to go by? I'm not so sure that many people are even comfortable with the idea of having to be connected to the web just to game. Online play is one thing, but what if my internet having problems and I just wanna pass some time away and can't. Now I'm not saying that this is the direction that Sony is going in, but I can see one of the major players releasing a digital only box in the not so distant future here...
Home still exist?