One person claiming to be a former senior manager at Sony posted in a Glassdoor review of the company that he doesn't think Sony's next-gen system, codenamed Orbis, will do very well.
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.
I find it funny, Sony dabbled with causal games this Gen, we have seen a good share of them and they didn't really move units, but they sold okay. They still have Wonderbook and a few others and those are selling okay. Their main focus is on Hardcore, just look at their games coming out next week, The last company you would think to forget about the core is Sony. We already seen Nintendo do it, for the most part, but they are trying to get them back with the Wii U and Microsoft sold their soul to the causal with Kinect.
Bottom line is, I don't believe it. I find it funny people tend to talk bad about a company after they got fired, or quit. If you have something to say why not express your opinion, out in the open, so people know who you are. The power of free Speech. People do it all the time. Anyone can list themselves as a former worker for any company and this is no different. I rather see a name, then a title. If not, this person is just butt-hurt about something.
Oh Kotaku,
Santa isn't bringing you naughty trolls anything this year and you have to attack others again with garbage.
Kotaku: If you can't be the hero, be the villain... both get equal billing.
"One person claiming to be a former senior manager at Sony"
Great journalistic integrity as always Kotaku.
Kotaku HQ.
Writer: Boss we got this guy on the line that claims to have worked for Sony and he has some dirt.
Boss: Anyway to prove it?
Writer: No just claims.
Boss: Run with it.
"Focus on your core gamer"
I see Sony losing focus with their core gamers with games like the Last of Us, God of War Ascension, Beyond: Two Souls, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, Until Dawn etc.
Then we have Microsoft with Gears of War....
I loled.