Sony only has to sell roughly 1.7 million PS4 games or about 286,000 PS4′s to cover their entire PS4 launch marketing budget.
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.
That 100m will be easily made back from launch sales
Only $100ml? If MS spent $500ml on an accessory for a 6 year old console expect a $1bl budget for the next xbox.
Sony better hope and pray it doesn't launch this year or it will likely be a waste of money for them.
@MariaHelFutura
And why the 360 outsold the PS3 :)
Wait. Are people even complaining about this? Microsoft spent half a billion launching Kinect. Not a console launch. A peripheral launch. Are there really people upset that Sony is spending 1/5th that on a full-blown console launch?
I'm so excited and I just can't hide it. I want you.
The Ps3 had a huge 150 million dollar marketing budget. The PS3 launch campaign was AWFUL (demonic babies etc.) . If Sony wants success they must have really good simplistic adds that tell you what the PS4 about. MS will come hard with their ample billions so Sony must have a strong ad. campaign.