Eskimo Press: Our senior editor speculates on the PlayStation 4 and goes over what Sony needs to get right in order for their new system to be a hit at launch.
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.
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.
There will be no fail... you can take that to the bank!!
Playstation fanboys, you will go on my 1st whistle, Xbox fanboys, you will go on my 2nd whistle.......
1. OS- The Operating System will be fine I'm sure.
2. Core Fans - To be honest it's not the core fans you need in order to succeed it is the causal, media consumption people.
3. BC- No BC isn't a must, it may be nice but far away from a must you buy a PS4 to play PS4 games not PS3 games yet I understand where people come from. Also, gaikai isn't BC, I hate seeing that if I have to pay for it, it's a solution not actual BC.
4. Price- Sony isn't stupid. I say $400 for the smaller HDD(320GB) and $450 for (500GB). They will be fine.
5. Launch Titles- Hmm this is an interesting one though. I can see some potential epicness with launch titles but you need third party to support you really. I'm not a fan of Killzone really because it's really just eye candy but Sony will bring it in the first party section, they need EA, Ubisoft, Activision, Take Two to come along and play.
Unless the console explodes after use Sony will be fine. No fail here.
Its going to be a great time for Playstaion owners, there's not a single doubt in my mind.
Just to see how they pulled out of a nose dive, just to end up ontop on every single noticeble level shows that Sony's game division is in a class of its own.
Everybody who owns a playstation loves the shape that they are in, the same can't be said for the Xbox360.