Joel Taveras writes, "Last week Sony officially kicked off the next generation of consoles by announcing its plans for the PlayStation 4. And as I sat inside the Hammerstein and listened as Andrew House opened up the press event and serenaded his audience with buzz words about the next generation of PlayStation, I couldn’t help but to think that it was more of the same press conference banter that we’ve all become accustomed with. But when lead system architect Mark Cerny took to the stage and gave us all something more substantial, in terms of specs, I was all ears. Once the words “supercharged PC” left his lips, I was sold."
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
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.
I surprised about the lack of talk about the new eyetoy. I could careless but seeing how Sony combined the move, wii and kinect in one is fantastic. People were saying MS owned the patent etc. same with cross chat. The Ps4 is going to but the ps3 to shame. Sony learned a lot and created a beast.
Announcing their specs first puts them in the driver seat? Hmm... I would think them actually launching first would put them in the driver seat.
PS3 announced the same year the Xbox 360 did, but the 360 launched that year and the PS3 took a full year to launch.
Sony says they are launching this holiday 2013 but we don't know if its world wide...is it just N. America...Japan...Europe? Price? And lets be honest...we don't know what the next Xbox has planned. We have over a yr old leaked specs for MS, Sony's leaked specs (which were supposedly more current than a year old) this past month said 4GB of GDDR5 and we know that turned out to not be the case and instead we saw 8GB of RAM.
Too little is still known for there to be a company in the driver seat.
personally i don't think that Sony should have disclosed the specs about what the PS4 is capable of they should've waited to at least they heard what SHITcrisoft is going to disclose first but they did other things right like showing us the power and showing us the controller that was pretty much leaked before the event and they did show up what they are aiming for in the future of Sony as a product and whats in store for gamers of the Sony Nation. congratulations Sony for taking the lead and i cant wait till E3.
I think this needs to play out. Last generation it is my opinion that many people purchased the 360 because it was the first system out. It demonstrated all the new bells and whistles that many couldn't wait to experience in their own home.
It became a tough act to follow for Sony after giving MS that head start, then releasing a system that was more expensive.
I have been well served by Sony and was able to wait until the release of the PS3, but many people just couldn't do that. We might very well see a role reversal this upcoming console generation, especially if the new Killzone is indicative of what we can expect upon the PS4's release.
Chances are MS has the next XBOX all finalized. I doubt that they will have a lot of time to change things in it just because Sony has announced the PS4 specifications. Some of you who work with hardware can confirm, but it seems a safe bet to say that if components are changed, they have to be tested to ensure we don't end up with heat dissipation problems or other internal hardware conflicts. Unless they have a significant delay, I don't see MS really changing much at this time.
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
Just remember: USB port in the *back* for that Kinect clone. And Don't make it required.