There’s something missing with PlayStation Vita: great first-person shooters that best take advantage of Vita’s dual analog sticks. For a handheld promising “console quality on the go” in advertisements, it’s a huge miss, and an even bigger miss for the millions upon millions of gamers who dominate the shooter scene and would absolutely adore a handheld that gave them their favorite genre no matter where they are. Like it or not, shooters are the real money-maker in today’s industry – Call of Duty illustrates this year in and year out – and if there’s nothing compelling on your platform hailing from that genre, it will be relegated to a niche in the west (unless, of course, you’re Nintendo).
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.
Good article. Not just another Vita doom article for the sake of writing doom articles, this piece has a look at the current FPS games out on the Vita, looks at what went right, what went wrong and what can be done better. I found it to be an interesting piece without parroting all the same negative Vita hyperbole we see so often now. And from IGN, no less.
As popular as first person shooters are though, I don't know if mobile devices really need them. As the author stated, we're still waiting for that good, first person shooter for mobile. So far we've had 20 years of handheld gaming without a really decent first person shooter to be had, but has that really held back mobile gaming as a whole?
I imagine the 3DS will probably never see a decent first person shooter, but do we really believe that will hold back the system? However, given the older demographics that the Vita is being targeted at, a decent first person shooter certainly couldn't hurt their fortunes. The PSP didn't need to rely on FPS games to sell 70-75 million units or whatever it's at now, but this isn't the same market for handhelds that it was even 5 years ago.
What do you guys think? Is a good first person shooter just what the Vita needs or do mobile gamers care about shooters? The Vita isn't lighting Japan on fire and they're huge mobile consumers, and they'll drive to the other side of their island to avoid first person shooter games but I think there's little doubt FPS games would catch the interest of US consumers.
I actually really enjoyed Resistance. :)
Vita can do fps well it just needs the right developers. I would more want a mgs and a GTA than anything else. I would be in vita heaven if those happen!
If a person had fun with Resistance Burning Skies or Call Of Duty Declassified. Does that mean the game sucks?