Tynan Muddle at Aussie-Gamer.com writes: "Sony need to focus less on sheer power for PlayStation 4 and more on groundbreaking features if they want to recapture their former glory."
When PlayStation 2 was released onto the world back in 2000, it captured the worlds imagination not because of its power, but because of its revolutionary features. DVD playback, digital sound and connecting to the internet in a relatively easy way were the hallmarks of what is still one of the most popular consoles of all time."
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.
*rolls eyes*. Yeah because Nintendo and Microsoft were really innovative this gen unlike Sony. What did they do again? A wag stick that got old really fast and a camera that got old even faster? Can I ask why people are always scolding Sony about being innovative when it was them that tried to make their system into a multimedia device long before everyone else pulled their heads out of the sand and decided to do it too. What was it people said then? 'Sony should concentrate on games and not a whole bunch of features because people want GAME CONSOLES and nothing else?'Sorry to burst your bubble but the 360 and Wii had less features then the PS3 did at the beginning.Lets not pretend that they didn't. It was Sony that made a built in interactive world for people to play around in, a first for a console.Sony never concentrated only on the PS3's power.And they won't with the PS4 either.
So should we have less power in next generation consoles? It's funny because the idea of less power in a computer and innovation directly contradict one another.
More power will lead to innovation in games.
What's more important than that?
The PS3 was innovative in that it used Blu-ray and the Cell. Ignoring the misstep of programming architecture, look where that got them.
Technology leads to innovation. You wouldn't see Move or Kinect get done on PS2 hardware, that's for sure. It's like saying a women needs a man, but a man doesn't need a woman. We need each other to survive. The author is contradicting himself. Just looking at the number of patents Sony files yearly will tell you how set they are to innovate next-gen