After a false start and a few glitches the new look PSN Store is up and running as of now. I had a quick flick through it earlier and nothing exploded so fingers crossed. The redesign is apparently the result of “feedback and insight from the community,” according to the product development manager for Sony Network Entertainment, Elliott Dumville.
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.
we have to pay to watch programmes from bbc iplayer £1.80 per show.. WTF
Iplayer have a free app don't they? Pretty sure everything on there is free and a lot is also HD.
Great to hear store is finally back up and running… I like it.
Re BBC i-Player it is down to the BBC if they are charging for shows, not Sony. Whilst I don’t believe they are currently charging I understand they intend too at some point and as a longstanding license payer I’m pretty disgusted at some of the content they want to charge for.
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The new PSN store is now up in Ireland, and i must say that it looks awesome.
I probably have the worst internet connection on Earth at my house but the store is running perfectly.
Well done, Sony.
I don't have any problems with the store but Sony should change the prices of the avatars.
€1.19 for an Irish flag avatar is just ridiculous, especially since the flag belongs to me, not Sony.
i dont like that loading time in the beginning, they made PSS as an "externel" app and not built in the xmb like the previous store was.
Also the search function is really bad.
But globally there is some improvements, but they promised improvements every week so let's see.