GI - Daniel Loeb's plans for Sony would undermine the games division - but the investor's proposals still need to be taken seriously.
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.
Great read. I seriously doubt Sony would separate hardware and software business. For starters, as the article mentions, playstation is as much hardware as it is software. How do you separate that?
It would paint an unclear picture for Games business because on the hardware side it would seem like they are just bleeding money since traditionally profit is generated more on software rather than hardware sales.
It's an all round bad idea that would lead to quality dips on the hardware side trying to make consoles profitable on their own.
Then again, I don't own a 6.5% stake in SONY and I'm not a billionaire so maybe my ramblings are just that, ramblings.
Have a fantastic weekend everyone.
The future for the gaming giants will be wrought with potential disaster. Sony has been hemorrhaging billions for years. It had to catch up with them at some point. Shareholders like this have a lot of pull. Hopefully nothing will change. If the launch of the PS4 goes well then sure this wont be a problem. If we end up looking at more expensive Vita scenario the story could be different. Only time will tell.
Kaz united all the divisions within Sony for a reason...and it's paying off.
I want that light!