Kaz Hirai may have swiftly responded to the public demand of a PlayStation 4 announcement by saying “Why launch first when other companies can copy our tech and specs?”, but PS4's announcement completely contradicted that last week when Sony finally unveiled to the world what their plans were for the future of their hardware.
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.
Genuine Enabling Technology was seeking damages, claiming the tech allowing PlayStation consoles and controllers to communicate infringes its rights.
Sounds like patent trolling they tried the same thing against Nintendo with the same pattern.
Motion and control input traversing over higher and lower frequencies seperate from each other allowing the controller to do both
So to recoup the money Genuine is going to take on Nintendo or Microsoft next. I hate patent lawyers they are some of the worst bottom feeders out there.
these is no contradiction to Kaz statement.
No console was even seen nor launched.
Sony moving before MS was in no way a bad move, they have great 1st party titles and do arguably better than MS when it comes to 3rd party support.
The PS4 is in no way in any danger and Im quite certain that will be even more apparent come E3 2013.
Off topic i hope the psn includes voice messaging, video messaging. Dont mind if there are lengh caps in place, so long as these features make it in the final build. Tabs under your profile picture for voice, text, and video messaging would be great additions and add to the overall social experience.
Another thing i would love to see would be like a universal rank system associated and determined by trophy levels. For example every 10 levels users earn a rank name and medal or symbol that represent that specific rank reached; which is then associated with their psn id.
For example, level 1 would be something like beginner or rookie, then it moves up from there. ofcourse Sony wouldn't have to do much since all it is, is a simple extension of the trophy system already in place. The more trophies earned, the higher the level, the greater the rank is.
This would add another dimension and also serve as an incentive. I dont know what do you guys think?
Getting a little sick of authors crying about features they wont use but this article is actually pretty good/,well rounded .. At least he doesnt say " im boycott ps4 bcuz stoopid share button im never use" Sadly ive seen other articles say almost exactly that.
If Sony are smart they'll have some revelations ready the day of Microsoft's reveal, with plenty held back for E3.