Sony have stated in an interview how important PS Plus is and commented on the future of the PS3.
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.
Well, yeah. Obviously, considering how much they're pushing streaming in the absence of any form of b/c.
I imagine they'll probably let PS+ users stream the PSN games they've already purchased for free; and use a separate subscription model (outside of PS+) for users to stream games they have not purchased. Though PS+ would likely offer a discount.
From a consumer's perspective, I really don't like what Sony is doing at all. But from a business perspective, what they're doing is very admirable. If it works (and even though I don't want it to, it probably will), the PS4 will likely be hugely profitable.
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Well, of course, that all depends on the games. I mean, hell, look at the Vita--one of the best gaming machines ever built, and no one's buying the thing.
You really don't need to give skeptics like me another reason to write off the PS4 by making PS+ 'crucial'.
not intrested in streaming video games even 1%
i could not care less if i tried
what i want is standard controls, no 3d, the game to come on a bluray disc, better a.i.
larger worlds
better physics
the graphics to be 1080p native, with 4x anti aliasing
v-sync always enabled so i never see a torn frame
30 frames minimum, never less,
pc quality textures, shadows and lighting
thats it
take gaikai and shove it ...lol...
and i'll just keep my ps3 to play ps3 games and all the digital content i own thanks
streaming is crap for movies, now imagine it 10x more terrible because of lag/latency every time you press a button and wait for the server to enter it, then for it to come back to you and appear on screen
its bloody awful, trust me
just give me normal games with amazing quality graphics and we're good
360 gets bashed cause if u want to play multiplayer, or watch netflix, Hulu or anything like that u have to pay for xbox live gold. Those are all free to access on ps3. PS plus is a much more optional service with more content value. It's apples and oranges.
Sony will own the parts in the PS4 also. Everyone goes to a major chip architect for the base design. They then pay them to modify it and add features of their design or that they pay the company(AMD in this case) to design. They can then shop that chip to anyone they want. The problems with bring down the cost on the Cell are different. Buy straight off the shelf is more expensive. That's what Microsoft did with the first Xbox and why it remained more than they could sell it for the entire lifetime. No console maker will ever let someone else own their CPU and GPU again.
PSN+ is crucial because PSN cost millions to run and it provides some income to help cover the cost.