Sony’s showing at Gamescom back in August inspired a lot of confidence in the company. The combination of new games and the PS3/Vita Cross-Buy promotion turned a lot of heads, but lately it seems Sony has been turning heads for all the wrong reasons. This holiday season will certainly see fierce competition between Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, but while the latter two seem to be making some good moves, Sony seems to be shooting themselves in the foot. What is Sony doing wrong, and can they rebound in time for the holidays?
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.
That is unfortunate and I wish them the best of luck within the gaming space.
Sony right now cares about profit and not about being first when it comes to units sold..I'm sure Sony will release some bundles to make up for the lack of price drop..We can expect to find all kind of sweet deals for all consoles come this holiday season with stores trying to match each other.
Sony has outsold the 360 every week this year and in the last two weeks has increased how many units they've outsold them by...(60,000 last week, 90,000 this week) So, how exactly is Sony losing ground? Are we by chance evaluating American numbers here and confusing them with world numbers?
You can't pick and choose information when it comes to a product. You have to look at the 'full' picture, and the FULL picture is Rosy.
edit: I've taken a second look and there is no mention at all that this represents only American numbers.
really the Sony/Butler case I don't think its going to affect their holiday season. noone I know even knows abouts it.
This is nothing new, this is the case every holiday. The only thing differnt is the 360 has started to outsell all competition in annual sales because of the holiday gains.
MSFT was #1 in 2011. In 2012 where the 360 has the only core exclusives and has lots of casual games plus a price drop will give the 360 a bigger lead than the one from last year, where the holiday pulled the 360 ahead regardless of fanboys using VGcharts all through the year(this year too)
Kinect and MSFT 1st and 3rd party games will be the only things close to being as appealing as Wii U compared to other current gen offerings.
Hell I know people buying a 360 for kinect and Internet explorer