"After nearly 13 years in production, Sony today announced that PlayStation 2 shipments in Japan have stopped. ...I feel like a part of me just died." -Game Revolution reminisces.
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.
Perfect person to salute the finale for the PS2...
From the article: "My father handed me $400, in part as a birthday gift and in part for not being in jail or flipping vehicles. I already knew what I was going to get. I drove to the mall and grabbed a PlayStation 2, Shadow of Destiny, and a DVD of some freaky anime porn. It was the best birthday of my life."
Cheers to that.
And cheers to the memories PS2 brought us all. Rest in peace, old friend.
man, the ps2 is such an excellent console, I bought one for my wife about 2 years ago, (we had one long ago and traded it in like dummies when we got a ps3)
went out and bought her the component cables and a samsung flat tube tv (ps2 looks AWFUL on our hd sets)
we have over 50 games, she loves playing them to this day, personally i like playing them on my pc, with pcsx2 i just pop them in my pc dvd slot and play in 1080p with 8x aa at 60 frames with my 360 controller
she likes playing them the way they were intended...lol...whatever, she says you can't play ps2 games with a 360 controller....sacrilige
I might have to buy one and just keep it in the box, for emergency....
ps2 is my favorite console ever made, ps3 is second, then 360, then xbox1, then super nintendo
but truthfully, i love them all
cannot wait for ps4 and xbox720, probably get a wii u too when there are 5 or so must have games for me.
love games, of any type! thats my motto!
makes sense they of course stopped because the ps4 is coming. they aare already making psp vita and ps3 and ps2.
Now they drop the pstwo and replace it with 4 soon.