The Playstation Vita, Sony's successor to the Playstation Portable. It's a handheld device bursting with functionality. In theory, the system has a great many things going for it. It has the best graphical capability among the handheld gaming devices as well as some functions that even its Playstation 3 big brother doesn't have ( ex. Cross Game Chat). However, for all the great potential it has, there has been one single detrement to the system's possible rise to greatness, the price.
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.
We wish. Vita doom and gloom won't stop until there's another Sony product coming to market for these sites to fixate on. We've already seen PS4 doom articles popping up and just weathered a spat of Wii-U doom. When we get closer to the PS4's launch and more is revealed, only then will the Vita doom talk stop, to be replaced with PS4 doom. It's sad that this is the current state of game journalism.
In game journalism, the old saying "You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar," has been replaced with "You can catch more flies with crap."
That's doubtful. People cried foul about the 3DS when its price dropped as well, and the Vita was initially being sold at a loss.
The doom and gloom articles really won't stop (as others have already stated), people are too hungry for attention and clicks.
For the billionth time, the Vita IS NOT EXPENSIVE! Just because Nintendo couldn't justify their incremental upgrade to the DS with the 3DS and charge $250 for crap DOES NOT mean that that's the same situation for the Vita. The memory cards are expensive, true, but the unit itself couldn't be more affordable for the buttload of features and tech you get.
Why the hell are the media so so stupid? Even if they are bloggers, they are making those people who are trying to get going in the gaming media a very bad name by being so stupid.
It's the human condition to bitch and whine. Even more so to attack something because you have a different view (3DS VS Vita). It's disgusting and I'm personally sick of it, pertaining to video games or otherwise. Everyone grow the hell up and accept each other. Also, be a little positive about the Vita. It's beautiful on the inside and out.
Edit: and the price point? Just stop talking about it. Not even major corporations can afford to sell at a loss. It has a 10 year life cycle and Sony WILL support it. They may make mistakes but in the end they haven't dropped the ball with any console yet. Especially given it has a ten year life span, things will start to pick up in the next year or two. I personally don't even think they need to, though, just need more third party developer support. Other than that people should bite the bullet and pick one up for the current price. If that's too much for you then hunt around for a cheaper bundle.
Yes, the price of the Vita is a problem, but in my opinion, the price of memory cards is a bigger problem.
100$ for 32GB is far too much. Divide that price by 3 and you'd be on mark. Same for the rest of them. Also, take out anything 4GB or below, it's far too small these days, especially if you have PS plus.