Everyday Digitals - After Wednesday’s PS4 press conference I felt pretty good about the direction Sony was taking the Playstation brand. It’s been a rocky 6 years for the PS3 but they’ve seemed to finally find their stride with software/services in the past couple of years. In the early days of the PS3 there was complaints from multiple developers about their dev tools and the architecture of their platform. Their proprietary chip, the Cell created a steep learning curve to create games with, resulting in sub-par 3rd party ports. Their Playstation Network was far behind their competitions when it came to features and accessibility. Over the years Sony has continued to add features and value to their online services via firmware updates.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
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.
I honestly just want Versus 13,I want it exclusive so it's made to take full advantage of the console it's being made on.
NBA Live might make a comeback.
They have so many top notch first party developers that either have a game coming within the next four months or have been suspiciously quiet. E3 (or the weeks leading up to it) should be a cavalcade of reveals and the finer details of PS4's OS, network features, sharing functions etc. should also be ironed out.
What they need to show to make me a happy camper:
-PS4 Design
-Price
-New Eye Toy capabilities
-New PS3 UI
-Uncharted 4
-More Killzone :)
for f*ck sake.
any Final Fantasy.
and Versus is still coming to the ps3 as an exclusive.
and to piss off xbox fans. ensure we only get exclusive contents on Destiny. and that content is something major NOT exclusive weapon, vehicle, etc etc