Sony Corp now directly owns 11.75% of DeNA stock, making them the second biggest shareholder (after DeNA founder Tomoko Namba with 13.09%) of the company that runs Japanese mobile social network Mobage, according to a financial report submitted to the Kanto financial affairs bureau on January 11, the Nihon Keizai Shinbun reports.
Titles on Mobage’s mobile social gaming service in Japan include Square Enix’s Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade, CardCaptor Sakura, Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls and, er, Super Bride Wars.
Outside of Japan, DeNA also has subsidiaries in the US and China that administer the Mobage service in those territories.
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.
If Sony manages to acquire Mobage, they could fold those developers, technology, and user base into their Playstation Mobile strategy. Than, people can get old and new Mobage game content straight to PSM.
There are a few Mobage games on the iOS app store already (search for mobage and you should see a few).
I hope Sony is smart and acquires Mobage as social and mobile will def keep on booming in Japan and elsewhere.
no no NO! Sony is going bankrupt remember?! Theyre DOOMED! *sarcasm*
Sony will acquire this company because it'll help a lot when then release the second Vita. (a.k.a. Xperia Play 2)
@GreenRanger_
Finally someone with sense!!!
Sony didn't have to make their own portable with Vita...and Sony shouldn't make anymore handhelds either...Sony should make their back catalogue available on tablets, smart phones...and yes dare I say it....competing handhelds!
Its a total waste of resources for Sony to produce their own handhelds in todays market!!
...But people rarely agree with me on that...but most of these people have zero business acumen, so no real surprise.
Vita successor is a non starter...Gaikai is Sony's trump card!
*Edited
Slightly of topic...
As for Xbox branding in Japan > MS needs to license Nextbox to other well respected manufacturers for Japanese market eg. Samsung, Panasonic etc so that it carries both names...that's the only way Japan will embrace a MS console.
The mobile phone industry is where Sony can really start to rebuild the company's fortunes and reputation.
The new xperia z looks to be a great start against samsung and Apple.