There’s been an abundance of articles directed at Sony and their latest handheld, the Playstation Vita, and most of them are showing what most people are – idiots.
A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.
I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.
I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons
I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.
Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.
At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath
I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.
Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.
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.
WHOA WHOA WHOA! This ISNT a doom n gloom Vita article?! Praise the writer!
He's on the money with this article, but I've got to say I'd have preferred it if it had just been a straight out advocation of Sony's long term strategy rather than a 'counter' article. By there very nature, articles like this automatically polarize their readership... but it is nice to see positivity for once.
By and large, the gaming media have very little in terms of 'headliners'. The general media, on the other hand, have so much at their disposal that they're hard pressed to decide which headline to run. The gaming media are left trying to spin the vacuous into something news worthy. Many bloggers are even worse off because they're sources are further limited, and I have to say, sometimes questionable (to say the least).
Generally speaking there is a lack of imagination from the gaming media and more often than not they'll simply rehash the same news, ad nauseum. Hits are king in this bloated, self-centred, indulgent media, so who can blame them for picking the path of less resistance ... Hell, I can, and will continue to do so.
So what can the gaming media do to save itself? I hope they have a long term plan because their credibility is taking hits on a daily basis. Unless they exchange sensationalism for creative thinking, they're doomed to become 'just another poster on the internet'.
"The Vita is far from dead"
With it's weekly 10k and below(more or less) sales in Japan, lack of advertisements, and lack of must have games, we'll see about that.
Not sure whats the point of mentioning black ops declassified. That game is going to suck, and it's been gimped compared to the console games.
I cant understand why people feel this way, I grabbed this from the sites comments.
Dear sony and its’ fans,
For the sake of humanity, please stop dreaming like we owe you money by spamming us on the internet with your vita ps3 promises we don’t even care. It’s so annoying like a crook selling snake oils. We understand you’re losing the gaming market pie these days, and it’s not gonna help everyone by putting the blame on people not giving you money.
You used to be the king but nothing’s last forever, your era is done, it’s gone. People like us are getting wiser and do not need to listen to your fans who are aggressively posting ‘Opinions’ like gospel of salvation. They might have just felt pissed because your brand name is sinking quick like titanic. We understand they would put the blame on ‘Media’ for bias articles, but we also believe the ‘Media’ don’t owe you and your fans anything.
So please accept the reality that you’re just trying to make profit out of us (including your fans too.) and that you can’t force people to buy your stuff all the time like we’re stupid puppets. NONE of your products can help us (or your fans) getting any money, in fact people are loosing money just for the sake of ‘games’.
In short, we’re not your blind slaves for taking our money for monopoly. Thank you.