Michael Ormonde, Thunderbolt writes:
With all the hype and excitement surrounding the announcement of Sony’s PlayStation 4 this past week, another milestone slipped under the radar. A year ago last week - February 22nd to be exact - the PlayStation Vita celebrated a year on sale in European and North American markets. Heralded as the “Next Generation” of on-the-go gaming, it boasted the most powerful specifications of any portable system, and promised a console quality experience no matter where you were. The system arrived to stellar reviews. It looked as though Sony would have a hit on its hands. However the Vita has, in all honesty, failed to gain traction with the consumer. Sales are below expectation; having originally set a goal of 16 million units sold in the fiscal year 2013, this was first reduced to 12 million, and then 7 million as Sony tempered their expectations. Even this modest goal will most likely not be achieved as at last count the handheld had sold approximately 4 million units since launch. But is the system dead in the water, or are the reports of the vita’s demise greatly exaggerated?
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.
In all honesty I was going to report this as Lame and move on hoping that it would die at some point. But on second look there is a point here. I don't want to see doom articles start popping up everywhere, but Sony really does need to get more quality software on the Vita. Call of Duty was a complete failure (I expected nothing less from Acti), and the third parties (at least in the west) just don't seem to have the creative vision to even understand how to use the damn thing.
I want this handheld, I really want it, but I need more platform focused software. There are great games on it, but many of them just aren't my type of game or aren't good enough to entice me to buy the system. I know people that have them love them, but I'm a prospective buyer and for me (and apparently most other people) there just isn't enough there yet.
*Please, if you respond to my comment, don't type up a list of Vita games I'm supposed to be interested in or that I should be impressed by. I either already like them or I don't care.
Dead handheld walking. Sony said it would be ridiculous to judge the Vita before its first holiday season and the Playstationers chimed in as well.
Now that the first holiday came and SONY for the 3rd time reduced sales expectations, the playstationers now say its only Vita's first year.
Probably die unless something major happens I don't even think the cross play with PS4 will even save the vita. But you know the funny thing and I'm not trolling but being real, remember when they first release the specs for vita how sony fan boys were calling the death of the Nintendo 3DS? But the funny thing is the Vita was dead on arrival and the 3ds is soaring in sells. My point is they are doing the Same thing with the PS4 claiming victory against all competitors before the war begins which is a huge mistake, and PS4 probably will do the same thing DEAD ON ARRIVAL. No not really, but it could have poor life time sells, they seem to for get that it will not just be the big 3 next gen because there is a new kid on the block and they are introducing them selves as the steam box. I know that Ouya is also coming but from what I understand it is not to compete with the big 3. The bottom line they should take a lesson from history that even if the PS4 wines up being the most powerful which won't matter cause it's not like you are going to see the difference, Anyways that it doesn't mean victory, In fact it almost guarantees failure. Name one time the most powerful console has won the war.
We need more games that show us what this handheld can really do in terms of graphical power. More titles like Uncharted: Golden Abyss, WipEout 2048 & Virtua Tennis 4 are needed.
Guerrilla has got the right idea with their title, Killzone: Mercenary.
I love my Vita,and the games too. I hope sony backs it for a long time.