eGamer writes: "Of course, the PlayStation 4 has been the buzz of the gaming industry for some time now. There are many, like myself, who are highly optimistic about the console, and many others who don’t feel the same, or still feel that Sony not showing the actual console was a very bad thing. But the topic that hasn’t been discussed all that much is, whether or not Sony made the right call to reveal the PlayStation 4 first to begin with, and that’s what I want to touch on a little bit today."
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.
Yes. Sony hit a grand slam and set the bar so high that no one can even come close to topping it. Add in the fact that the hardcore gamers belong to Sony now since it's competition abandoned us, the ball is clearly in Sony's court.
I thoroughly agree with the writer and, in all honesty, I'm still a little shocked that MS hasn't done one single thing to try and steal some of the hype.
Besides a couple of snarky comments about Sony not showing the actual console, MS has been deathly silent. They either have something very special lined up and are overly confident of their success or Sony actually caught them off-guard and they're just not prepared enough to respond.
they just showed not other things happened (well no real console show but ...) both console will be realeased same time window.....so this hype "money talking" mean nothing...
ihmo when the xbox will ger showed the hype will go all on ms coz is the "new player on the ground" while ps4 is something that we already know everything about
caught us all on the back foot.....
the same feeling I get when theres a major update for my galaxy s that I forgot was coming .....sad I know but I dont care the excitement is exciting especially since this may be the last gen im gunna be truly into.
sony sure have learnt a thing or 2 from MS in terms of marketing and 1upmanship. Some still call sony arrogant but they are definitely taking MS more seriously now whilst continuing the support of their core fans and their more casual ones and creating more new ips gen after gen. MS wont lie down though...no. It will be better for us gamers in some aspects that for sure if ms then starts to shift back towards creating more games or at least letting the old ips it has locked away out again.
I don't think announcing it first matters much, releasing first would be a big coup though.